In her diary entries Mother doesn't say that much about rationing during the war except for the usual shortages of meat, and apparently ice cream was hard to find at times. She does mention going to Miami to see the gas ration board and being rejected, but Daddy got tickets for 5 tankfuls at the army office. She also wrote of making sure to use up points before they expire.
She does talk about the hardship of trying to set up housekeeping for the family when their furniture was in storage in LaFayette. In Warner Robins, where Daddy was sent in 1943, she says they lived in a hastily constructed 4 room house with a coal burner in the hallway. For furniture they had 2 wood yard chairs, a barrel with a lamp on it, a card table and 4 small nail kegs for chairs, twin army cots, and wooden shelves for clothes; no rugs and unfinished floors.
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