Rationing had become a way of life, with restrictions on essentials like clothes, sugar, butter, potatoes and meat.
She buys food, essentials and clothes as cheaply as she possibly can – Tesco, Lidl, Primark – and is lucky to be able to count on her boyfriend, when things get "really, really, bad", to pay for the occasional big shop.
As the death toll rose to 272 Wednesday and rescue efforts continued, teams of firefighters from across Italy were escorting residents like the Tiberti family back to their homes and helping retrieve a few essentials: some clothes, car keys, a cellphone.
Five old school friends, for example – all with experience in the US, where philanthropy is as efficiently run as any business – formed Desmos, which a bare six months later supplies some 35 welfare organisations including soup kitchens, homeless shelters and orphanages with surplus food and essentials including clothes, shoes and books from two dozen different companies in and around Athens.
The sole sign of something going on was five small stacks of essentials — baby clothes, a pack of diapers, two bottles, a nail clipper and a few plastic utensils from the girl's miniature kitchen — piled on the dining room table.
None of the essentials — the clothes, the hair — are dated in any way.
The money goes towards winter essentials like clothes, footwear and blankets, as well as age-appropriate food for children.
For now, many of its possible uses are in the nice-to-have rather than essential category – clothes embedded with electronics, flaccid mobile phones, low-energy and low-cost light bulbs – but it also has potential medical and other applications.
Grab all the essentials for hurricanes: Clothes, lanterns, portable weather radio, generator, money, and important papers.
She hadn't wanted to take much, only a few essential CDs and clothes.
