WASTEFUL OLD FOLKS

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[FreedomPoster]

When I use a shopping cart, I *never* pop out the seat and use it for small items for exactly that reason.

[truthkeeper]

Whadya mean, “older FReepers?” LOL

[ErnBatavia]

We keep hand sanitizer in the car, and I dose up after every Walmart run, given the mess that place is always in....

[American Constitutionalist]

" Whatever happened to paper grocery bags? "

I think it had something to do with saving trees or something like that, but the enviromentalheads were very short sighted in that, now we got the problem of animals getting caught up in plastic bags, plastic bags being blown around in the wind getting under cars sticking to the under side of the car's exhaust system, bags laying around littering the place where the bags don't decompose.
If you were to read into this young store clerk's response, and consider what Cass Sunstein has proposed, the liberals and a fascists dictatorship would do away with older people because they think old people are such a burden to society, that's what the new generation of the liberal world new world order thinks.

[truthkeeper]

My mother saved aluminum foil, plastic bags, and ESPECIALLY wrapping paper. I can still see her painstakingly opening a gift so as to not tear the pretty paper.

[Oztrich Boy]

Whatever happened to paper grocery bags?

Paper doesn't grow on trees you know

[Arrowhead1952]

Yes, I've heard about the canvas bags. Whenever we go to the grocery store, we take the sanitizer pads and clean the handles really well.

[Arrowhead1952]

Some stores have the option of paper, but you have to ask for them.

[momtothree]

Actually, I save the gift bags that we get and re-use them. A close friend of mine and I have been sending each other the same few gift bags for quite a few years now. We laugh because one has a cartoon character on it and we still use it for the older kids. Who cares what’s on the front of a gift bag... they want to see what is INSIDE! I guess a penny saved...

[trisham]

Yes, and it was a good discussion!

[DJ MacWoW]

Nope. Not a peep.

We had a "ragman" when I was little. He came through with a horse and cart. His horse was gray and named Dolly.

[Rebelbase]

“3/4 of shopping carts have traces of fecal matter, most of it from infants.”

And this whole time I thought it was someone’s chocolate ice cream that melted.

[Arrowhead1952]

I came from a family that did that too. We would even straighten nails and reuse them if they weren’t too rusty.

[DJ MacWoW]

I have a button box. It’s an old cookie tin. And I have black and white thread on my desk. With needles already threaded. :-)

[Arrowhead1952]

He found that the plant was able to stretch and the undie band didn’t cut the plant.

Hey!! I resemble that remark, except I use strips of old tee shirts to tie the plants to the stakes.

[DJ MacWoW]

Do you remember the paper “sleeves” for a half gallon of ice cream so it wouldn’t melt before you got home? When did stores stop doing that?

[TheOldLady]

That’s right. Use it up, wear it out, and make it do. That was how we recycled, and we still do.

You are absolutely right about the self-righteous “recyclers” these days. A lot of that green and blue bin stuff goes straight to the landfills anyway. Companies find that it’s too expensive to pay someone to sort trash that is virtually worthless.

[Pessimist]

As do I.

My wife and I talk about this sort of thing from time to time.

When we were kids, we were “green” before it was cool. Not so much to save the environment, but for simple economic reasons.

Of course that was before it was known that the free market system couldn’t possibly work, either. :)

[WayneS]

A cute article, but not without its inaccuracies.

For instance, a modern LCD HD television with a ‘screen the size of Montana’ uses only a small fraction of the electricity necessary to power one of those early CRT units with its ‘screeen the size of a handkerchief’.

[Sacajaweau]

Mine is an old cookie tin, also. My mother had a gorgeous one...royal blue...a cookie tin also.