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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-02-07 02:00 AM Original message |
Apparently housewives won WWII |
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LostInAnomie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-02-07 02:05 AM Response to Original message |
1. Why is she pouring grease down the drain in the first place? |
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TahitiNut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-02-07 06:01 PM Response to Reply #1 |
21. Nope. We saved bacon grease in a coffee can on the stove. |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-02-07 06:02 PM Response to Reply #21 |
22. I still do that.n/t |
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TahitiNut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-02-07 06:04 PM Response to Reply #22 |
25. I can't even remember the last time I fried bacon at home. |
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Raine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-02-07 02:10 AM Response to Original message |
2. THANKS |
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Beerboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-02-07 02:18 AM Response to Original message |
3. Yes, they did. |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-02-07 02:22 AM Response to Reply #3 |
5. My grandmother saved fabric scraps, newspapers, tin cans..you name it.. |
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NavyDavy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-02-07 07:05 AM Response to Reply #5 |
10. keep them i think they are collector items now....i thought i |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-02-07 05:13 PM Response to Reply #10 |
11. We won't toss them out....I still have books of S&H Green Stamps too |
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TahitiNut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-02-07 06:05 PM Response to Reply #11 |
27. Gawd! I remember pasting them in the books until my tongue was too sticky to talk. |
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fishwax (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-02-07 02:49 AM Response to Reply #3 |
9. welcome to DU, Beerboy |
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Hekate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-02-07 02:21 AM Response to Original message |
4. Everyone sacrificed, everyone participated in the war effort.Utterly different from today. |
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David__77 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-02-07 02:27 AM Response to Reply #4 |
6. Propaganda gets a bad name, but it has a role. |
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Raine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-02-07 02:30 AM Response to Reply #4 |
7. Yeah now days in a time of crisis |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-02-07 02:35 AM Response to Reply #4 |
8. Well sure, that was a real war, not a mass-marketed corporate for-profit venture. |
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KoKo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-02-07 05:46 PM Response to Original message |
12. Lets hope that when Fisher-Price Toys have LEAD we create a new "MOM POWER" |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-02-07 05:53 PM Response to Reply #12 |
15. Actually, my boys liked Creative Playthings. |
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KoKo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-02-07 05:57 PM Response to Reply #15 |
17. sorry I asked. |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-02-07 06:01 PM Response to Reply #17 |
20. don't be |
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KoKo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-02-07 06:03 PM Response to Reply #20 |
24. I just have a girl |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-02-07 06:05 PM Response to Reply #24 |
26. Hey I WANTED 3 girls Katharine, Diane & Susan |
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KoKo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-02-07 06:05 PM Response to Reply #15 |
28. BTW... for GIRLS (mostly their Moms) Doll Houses were big business |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-02-07 05:47 PM Response to Original message |
13. They certainly did their share... Making armaments, enriching uranium.... |
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JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-02-07 05:50 PM Response to Original message |
14. I'm surprised to learn Hitler was a midget who spent the war pestering housewives |
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bleedingheart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-02-07 05:59 PM Response to Reply #14 |
18. that made me laugh out loud... |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-02-07 07:33 PM Response to Reply #18 |
32. It's funny now, but i bet a lot of people with German heritage changed their names |
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bleedingheart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-02-07 10:01 PM Response to Reply #32 |
33. the Hitler was a midget pestering housewives....was what I thought was funny |
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Bassic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-02-07 05:57 PM Response to Original message |
16. Hehe, |
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bleedingheart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-02-07 06:00 PM Response to Original message |
19. my mom saves bacon grease to this day for cooking.. |
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TahitiNut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-02-07 06:02 PM Response to Reply #19 |
23. Absolutely. |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-02-07 06:06 PM Response to Reply #23 |
29. I have bought lard before.. Gotta have lard for real refried beans |
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KoKo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-02-07 07:11 PM Response to Reply #29 |
30. Here's the problem with that.. |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-02-07 07:21 PM Response to Reply #30 |
31. We use mostly olive oil these days.. My husband has the opposite problem |
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rucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-02-07 10:07 PM Response to Reply #19 |
34. What part of the Midwest are you from? |
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