Dear Folks, I'm continuing to try to put my stories together so that they'll eventually end up in a book. This evening I was reminded of a story that I never wrote down before. It had to do with collecting tin foil during WWII. When the war first started, everything was done for the War Effort. That included collecting newspapers, rubber products, aluminum, tin and even kitchen grease to be recycled into ammunition, tanks and such. Regarding collecting tin, well this is one of the things the school kids did with a fervor for the War Effort. It was collecting tin foil. My sister Norma and I would walk along the sidewalks checking the gutters for discarded cigarette packs. We'd pick them up and take them home with us where we would unfold the packs and carefully strip out the tin foil in them. We'd roll the foil up into balls and then start with the next cigarette pack. With each piece of foil, we'd add it to the balls and the balls kept getting bigger and bigger. When the balls got big enough we'd take them to a tin foil redeeming station where they were weighed and according to their weight, we were paid so many pennies per pound. What a great monetary reward for all the work we did! Note: the housewives were also rewarded for the household grease that they'd turn into the butcher. I believe they collected the grease in standard metal cans such as a Crisco can. Their reward was to receive a certain amount of red ration points (for meat products). That was worth much more than pennies or money. After all, don't you know that there's a war going on? vee