I would imagine most of the guys on the forum that are my age were in the same boat,especially if your lived in the country.All my siblings except 1 were born at home. We didn't go to the drug store,but bought medicines from a traveling salesman (Rawliegh Products). No electricity kerosene(coal oil) to burn in the lamps.No indoor toilets or toilet paper.Things were really hard in the Tennesse Valley where I was born.Our doctor made house call driving a Ford.That was always a fun time to see that Dr. come by.My mother would churn milk on a hand churn to make butter and butter milk.When I was 7 ,I ask my mother to bake a cake and she no because sugar was being rationed because of the war.I said we only had beans and potatoes before sugar was rationed ,she gave me a deserved whipping.We carried water from a spring to drink,cook and bath with.Mom washed clothes on a wash board.I helped my father build our first bathroom some years later as times got better.Our first car was a 32 Essex.My Dad worked on the farm as a share cropper and eventually got a job building furnitrue.Things began to change as the years went by.I remember going to a neighbors house and watching TV ,Sat.nite fights around 1952.Our first TV was around 1954. We were poor but I learned a lot of good lessons from it all.