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(60,289 posts)And through 2 feet of snow.
Great graphic though!
Ilsa
(61,656 posts)over your graphic. There are a few here who have posted that they wore bread sacks over their socks.
marble falls
(56,037 posts)from wetting shoes and socks. You'd have to be from the buckle-boots generation to know about that!
A Simple Game
(9,214 posts)I think we all did.
marble falls
(56,037 posts)A Simple Game
(9,214 posts)Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)coming from the DUers who were relatively well off growing up and simply cannot imagine such a thing.
Ilsa
(61,656 posts)I was mildly undernourished as a child and wore hand-me-downs until I started working. But I never wore bread bags.
RoccoR5955
(12,471 posts)HappyMe
(20,277 posts)If my boots were leaky, that's what happened. It may be a bit goofy, but it was better than cold, wet feet.
It was kind of common back in the day. "Money doesn't grow on trees" - moms and dads everywhere.
NBachers
(16,967 posts)Yup, that was popular too.
slumcamper
(1,600 posts)While your story might seem quaint and amusing to the one percenters who bankrolled you, you're really nothing special, dear. You, with your plastic smile and worn-out talking points, will never fill the seat of Tom Harkin, a genuine champion of common people. However, you did manage to pull off a rather entertaining SNL impersonation of yourself.
CTyankee
(63,708 posts)wish we still had Colbert, tho. He woulda had a ball with it!
rurallib
(62,328 posts)they were used for all sorts of storage containers, leftovers and even book cover liners.
If it might get wet and you didn't want it to, put it in a bread bag.
Can't remember what all my mother used them for, but I remember they were all over the place, with many a spare folded neatly in the upper right hand kitchen drawer.
cyberswede
(26,117 posts)2naSalit
(85,651 posts)mopinko
(69,717 posts)LovingA2andMI
(7,006 posts)#NOMORE #BREADBAGSONHERFEET as Joni Ernst is a Koch's Bros Billionaire #BESTFRIEND now
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