Food Prices

[Judy Harder]

Jo,

They do still make cloth diapers. I looked for them one time when in WalMart.
I don't remember what a dozen cost, but I agree with you..............you do save a lot
using them.

For us rural and older women who  did have to cut corners it won't bother us.
The younger ones are going to feel  the pain.

We also have to decide just what to give up and then really do it.
I stopped going to Independence two or three  times a month.....and now make it once and get what I HAVE to have
and leave the rest  there.

I am not leaving town unless I have to.
Will continue to shop here at Kay's  and just make do.

I save my extra (yeah right) money incase I need to go to Topeka in a hurry (Parents/family) and have to be content with what I have.
There won't be anything else...........and if I can't afford to keep or run my car, than I may as well give up my independence.

It could  be worse.........and God willing it won't get there........but we can do it.

[frawin]

Judy, I like you attitude.
Frank

[Bonnie M.]

"My tomatoes are not doing good."

Teresa, I'm thinking you have someone in your family who is having a bumper crop of tomatoes!  Looks like you're going to need to be doing a lot of visiting this summer!

[Teresa]

ha ha ha.. yeah.. I talked to daddy today and he is going to plant me some late radishes...
(*I'm still daddy's girl... )

[dnalexander]

Winn's Market \ L.F. Winn Proprietor\ Howard, KS| Phone 14 (circa 1940's)

Ginger snaps 2 lbs. 23 cents
Honey grahams 2 lbs. 27 cents
Sunsweet prunes 1 lb. 13 cents
Potted meat 3 no. ¼ cans 11 cents
Mixed vegetables no. 2 can 10 cents
Corn Flakes Lg. Pkg. 10 cents
Vienna Sausage 9 cents
Oxydol Lg. Pk. 21 cents
Dreft Small 14 cents, Lg. 23 cents
Babo cleanser 2 for 25 cents
Camay toilet soap  3 bars for 19 cents
Grapefruit  2 no. 2 cans 27 cents
Phillips' Asparagus 15.5 oz. can 25 cents
Sandwich Spread Pint 16 cents, Quart 28 cents
Tomato juice 10 cents
Whole grain corn 2 no. 2 cans 27 cents
Grapefruit juice 2 no. 2 cans 19 cents
Bartlett Pear no. 2.5 can 20 cents
Weet Pickles 6 os. 10 cents
Winfield Supreme Jelly 13.5 oz 20 cents
Dried Apricots 2 lbs. 25 cents
Cook's Best Cocoa 2 no. 2 cans 21 cents
Hereshy Cocoa Syrup 16 oz. 10 cents
Bananas 4 lbs. 23 cents
Oranges 27 cents per doz.
Lettuce 5 cents head
Green Beans 2 lbs. 27 cents
Cabbage 5 cents per lb
Crisco 3 lb can 61 cents
Picnic pie plates 10 cents pkg.
Slice bacon 29 cents per pound
Dried beef 12  cents per 4 oz
Boiled Ham 22 cents for 8 oz.
Jelke Good Luck (spread on bread)  20 cents per lb
Select Alaska Pink Salmon (White Star) 2 no. 1 cans 29 cents

I hope you all get a kick out of this just as I do every time I look at this grocery ad from Howard in the 1940's.

David

[frawin]

DAVID THAT AD IS FROM 1937.
UNCLE FRANK

[Bonnie M.]

(*I'm still daddy's girl...  )


And, Teresa, that will never change!

[Diane Amberg]

1937 food prices? I'm glad I'm not making 1937 wages. Those prices were probably as high to them as ours are to us.  But it's sure fun to see them.