19 Funny now we 50+ kids survived entertaining ourselves with very little in the way of toys and assets. We had the first telly in the street and I can say that was mark for life beginning a radical change. We were able to see what Americans were doing, how much they had in their homes, how they travelled. Up until then it was just peoples stories of travel etc.
Friday school lunch was a pie and donut for 1/6d. The rest of the week was strawberry jam or luncheon sausage sandwiches.
Our mother made all our clothes, from blouses, shorts, school dresses, gym frocks to trousers, undies etc. The only thing I remember being bought from Rendalls or Farmers was singlets and white socks.
Farmers yearly Hector sale was the place to go. We would take the early tram and then the Farmers free bus in and line up at the door. Mum would go head down butt up into the huge bargin bin barrels.
Im not sure that the 50's were better times, just different. Sure we grew all our own food but travel, technology etc was very limited. The 40's and 50's were a very time consuming era, washing took forever in the old copper, dishes were a chore and there were miles of them, homework took forever having to write and rewrite everything (no computers and printers)..Encyclopedias were out of date as soon as you bought them. Now kids have a vast array of information at their finger tips
I think that its probably about merging things that were done well in the past, such as growing our own preservative, chemical free food and embracing the new technology and using it in the best way we can for our families. But JMO
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