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15 October 2014
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Making Ends Meet

by stoke_on_trentlibs

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People in story:听
Sheila
Location of story:听
Stanfields, Stoke-on-Trent
Background to story:听
Civilian
Article ID:听
A2866791
Contributed on:听
26 July 2004

This story was submitted to the People's War website by Stoke-on-Trent Libraries on behalf of Sheila. The author fully understands the site's terms and conditions.

My mother used to always buy two quarters of tea at any one time. She'd buy a quarter of best and a quarter of the cheapest and mix them together!
Her other trick was to buy a bottle of milk and water it down to make two pints - the first skimmed milk maybe?????

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