2021 Fashion On The Ration Challenge

TwibbleDee

TwibbleDee said:

I completely blew my coupons out of the water.  We’re not even trying to figure out how many extra I used.  

2021 Fashion on the Ration: 11 coupons remaining. 66 coupons for 2021 + 16 remaining from 2020 - 11 for wool dress - 5 for sandals - 4 each for 4 pairs of capris - 7 for a skirt - 6 each for 5 pairs of jeans.

+ 3 tank tops with shelf bras
+ 3 bras
+ 1 raincoat
+ 1 sweater
+ 1 pair fleece-lined jeans
+ 4 pairs yoga pants
+ 3 workout tanks
+ 1 long-sleeve workout shirt

I think I might qualify for the blackout award.  

TwibbleDee

Laura_Elsewhere said:

@Gem-gem - 12oz every four weeks for sweets - and 8oz sugar a week - and 1lb of preserves six times a year. 

It's less than it sounds....

Here's a hand list, weekly rations for one adult (it varied, but this gives an idea)

• Bacon & Ham         4 oz
• Other meat            value of 1 shilling and 2 pence (equivalent to 2 chops)
• Butter                      2 oz
• Cheese                     2 oz
• Margarine              4 oz
• Cooking fat            4 oz
• Milk                       3 pints
• Sugar                    8 oz
• Preserves            1 lb every 2 months
• Tea                        2 oz
• Eggs                     1 fresh egg (plus allowance of dried egg)
• Sweets                  12 oz every 4 weeks

I wonder how many people ended up using preserves in their tea to save the sugar!

Gem-gem

Laura_Elsewhere said:

@Gem-gem - 12oz every four weeks for sweets - and 8oz sugar a week - and 1lb of preserves six times a year. 

It's less than it sounds....

Here's a hand list, weekly rations for one adult (it varied, but this gives an idea)

• Bacon & Ham         4 oz
• Other meat            value of 1 shilling and 2 pence (equivalent to 2 chops)
• Butter                      2 oz
• Cheese                     2 oz
• Margarine              4 oz
• Cooking fat            4 oz
• Milk                       3 pints
• Sugar                    8 oz
• Preserves            1 lb every 2 months
• Tea                        2 oz
• Eggs                     1 fresh egg (plus allowance of dried egg)
• Sweets                  12 oz every 4 weeks

Thank you Laura Elsewhere,  I was also trying to see if chocolate was different as I don't eat sweets eg Jelly Baby's - I find it far too sweet. Can you help me out? 

TwibbleDee

Hmm...would they have been able to get much chocolate, as it would have been imported?

Laura_Elsewhere

Chocolate came under 'sweets', so 12oz every 4 weeks, which is not very much if you ask me!!!

@TwibbleDee - it was imported but supplies of basic chocolate continued throughout the war - I think it was viewed as a morale thing. You couldn't get anything fancy, just small bars of plain chocolate. 

I only discovered 3 years back that my 20-something nieces don't know what "plain chocolate" is, as they only know "dark chocolate" as a term! When asked about present-preferences, they said "oh just plain chocolate, nothing with fruit or nuts or spices..." and gave examples whcih were milk chocolate! There was a lovely bit of confusion with me and my parents knowing "plain chocolate" to mean dark chocolate that is not milk choc or white choc, and the girls using it to mean "milk chocolate without additional flavourings"! 

Originally "chocolate" was always dark, like Bournville (only without the wretched carcinogenic palm-oils, grrr), and so the distinction was between that standard stuff, the plain chocolate, and the stuff with lots of milk added to make it sweeter and richer, ie milk chocolate! 

maddiemay

TwibbleDee said:

I completely blew my coupons out of the water.  We’re not even trying to figure out how many extra I used.  

TwibbleDee I think that I should join you on the naughty step, or wherever naughty people were banished to in the early 1940s

I gave up trying to reconcile my coupons ages ago, not really sorry, it has been a ghastly year, second one running now, I will still need to buy underpinnings, but I have put on a bit of weight which needs to be shifted, reluctant to buy anything next size up, need to buckle down to it in the new year.  

I am all for a shiny new thread and just carrying 1 year's spare coupons over, might have to dip out of the "bit of a do" as nothing fits and I don't have any intact silk stockings left!

Laura_Elsewhere

@maddiemay, don't you try skiving out of the Awards Ceremony - here, you can have this packet of gravy browning and I'll lend you my eyebrow-pencil... 

maddiemay

Laura_Elsewhere - much appreciated and gladly accepted, I had better start canvassing my friends to see who might have a suitable (or any) frock that I might borrow.

Baileys_Babe

I have spent 0 coupons 66 coupons remaining. 

I did try and spend some on a few occasions throughout the year but nothing new I ordered fitted.  I did buy a couple of pairs of trousers in the charity shop, but they are coupon free. Now I have decided I want to lose weight and I am making progress in the right direction I am reluctant to invest money and coupons in clothes that will be much too big before the end of 2022 fingers crossed.  So instead I have decided to make do with what I have to got, except a new bra which I am hoping to buy before the end of January.

PollyWollyDoodle

My goodness, I could easily cope on 3 pints of milk and my meat ration today wouldn’t be very different but butter (I don’t use margarine), and cheese … and I would struggle with the sugar ration because I love baking. And one egg a week 😱 - however I kept my own hens until recently, so as long as I could feed them, they’d feed me so to speak.  

Interesting point about chocolate @Laura_Elsewhere, I’d never thought about it.  I need to check my points but I’m pretty sure I am on a low total this year. Like you, @Baileys_Babe I am trying (not very successfully) to lose weight, not to buy new clothes but so I can fit into the ones I’ve got which are getting tighter by the day!