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Rhiannon12866

(250,127 posts)

7. Exactly! My grandmother worked for the Department of Price Administration (rationing)

Reply to Skittles (Reply #6)

Thu Mar 27, 2025, 02:42 AM

Mar 2025

My grandfather had died and she had a tough time finding child care for her 3-year-old. And my maternal grandparents owned and ran a neighborhood market so they made sure that their neighbors had enough food during rationing. My mother and her sister delivered groceries to their neighbors in their wagon.