I love those "more with less" books....
I'm trying to move away from paper napkins and paper towels...trying to learn all basic cooking and baking with simpler ingredients....
Ah . . paper products. We’ve come to depend on them, I think. Gee whiz! When I was a kid, we never had ‘em. I guess we just wiped our mouths on the backs of our hands after we ate, then paper towels only existed at school and they were those crude brown folded paper towels in a dispenser on the wall. At home, a rather large cloth towel hung on a nail over the table where the water bucket sat. We’d get us a drink out of the dipper, splash a dipper full into the little wash pan on the table, soap up a little, then rinse and dry on the cloth towel; then toss the used water out the back door.
In the outhouse, there was always the Sears and Roebuck catalog stuck up behind a plank. Tear the pages out one at a time, and it did the job!