We walked barefoot tom save on wear and tear of our ONLY PAIR of shoes. The five younger kids were waiting patiently for their turn.
In our house we only had one good pair of underwear that we had to share. If you were lucky you got to wear them the day that they were washed.
If you had a hole in the sole of your shoe, you just put a piece of cardboard in it and went out to play...If the heel of your shoes were run down, you took them to the shoemaker at the corner and he put new heels on them for 1 dollar or less...the good old depression days of the 30’s and 40’s...What most people don’t realize that what brought us out of the depression was not FDR programs but WW 2.