Posted on 07/27/2011 7:01:13 AM PDT by Arrowhead1952
yes dear. ;)
Actually I was afraid of Dolly. She was a huge dapple gray and I have always been small. She towered over me.
It’s very wasteful to use them just once. And I hate using a new one for the outdoor birdbath etc. Hubby buys 8 packs of Sparkle.
We did that for when the ice cream truck came around. :)
What a bargain!
>>Actually, I save the gift bags that we get and re-use them.<<
We use nothing but gift bags. Year to year. My sister even made ones out of material. I never buy gift wrap.
You should have bribed her with sugar cubes and carrots; she’d have become your best friend!
Read the thread.
LOL!
No kidding? I’ll have to remember that.
Gift wrap is butt ugly now! I have some saved. :-)
Love this..My HEB never pushes those “green bags”. I USE the plastic bags..I have 3 indoor cats!
I can relate to most of this..but then I was a depression baby and a child in WW2. We HAD to recycle...or do without.
We couldn’t bring in TV signals til the 50s in my small town so we never had a postage stamp TV.
What on earth are we ever going to do with all the saved buttons..LOL?
“We use nothing but gift bags...”
It does save on tape and aggravation, doesn’t it? Plus, you can get them at the Dollar Store. I’ve known a lot of people do this for Christmas... they would rather spend time with the family, baking, decorating etc... than hours hidden in your locked room wrapping up the presents.
None of it is new. There has been poo and dirt on everything for years.
When we were kids, our bodies got used to it. Now we clean everything with anti-bacterial soap and alcohol based hand cleaners.
Wonder why people get sick? It’s because no one lets their immunities build. I had a “friend” come to my house and wipe my high chair down with alcohol wipes before she would put her son into it. He son then started kindergarten and was sick the whole year.
Unfortunately when I was “bad” my Mother packed my bag and said she was giving me to the rag man. I sat on the couch waiting. He came and she went through her act. I was NEVER getting near him or his horse again. I was only 4. C’est la vie.
Eventually we’ll all have narrow pathways through the buttons in our homes that are piled floor to ceiling. :)
Back then, you conserved because you were frugal. Today, people conserve because it has become the closest thing they know to morality.
We must have 40 or more of them that we just keep re-using. I hate wrapping presents.
That reminded me of waiting all summer long for watermelon because my mother wouldn’t buy any until it was at most 2¢ a pound, or preferably 1¢.
That was agony for a watermelon loving kid, I’ll tell you what.
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