WASTEFUL OLD FOLKS

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[Arrowhead1952]

I had a FReeper tell me I need to post this as a thread. I hope the formatting stays as it was in the email. I used the FR Chat as the source, since a source is required. I imagine some older folk can add more to this list.

[truthkeeper]

Uh-oh...I remember doing most of this too. Does that make me a selfish old person? :-)

[ken21]

an asu study showed that the canvas bags are bacteria laden.

apparently most people do not launder them.

and shopping carts have lots of bacteria.

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

[LibLieSlayer]

I would have called for the general manager and made a huge scene and demanded an apology from the clerk.

LLS

[Former Proud Canadian]

Whatever happened to paper grocery bags?

[Da Coyote]

We must forgive the cashier.

Public schools - ergo, dumb, narcissistic, probably voted for the Cretin, and totally unaware of any technology past pushing the text buttons on her cell phone or computer.

[Truth29]

"I would have called for the general manager and made a huge scene and demanded an apology from the clerk."

That's because you are nice and civilized. Some would have had the urge to hit the clerk with their cane or walker... :-)

[DJ MacWoW]

Just had a discussion about this the other day. We saved bags and tinfoil, rubberbands, anything that could be cleaned and reused. Now kids throw it in a special trash can and think they’re great because they’re recycling. They don’t know what recycling is!

[justsaynomore]

SOOO true. I told my husband the other day - Boy Scouts were conservationists long before liberals made it their mantra (so they could tax us for it)

[apillar]

In the line at the store, the cashier told an older woman that she should bring her own grocery bags because plastic bags weren't good for the environment.

The woman apologized to him and explained, "We didn't have the green thing back in my day."

The clerk responded, "That's our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save our environment."

LoL! When I read this part I knew this had to be a parable. I worked for a grocery store back in my college days. You learned quickly not to be a smart a$$ with the senior citizens, they didn't take one bit of crap and they could and would get you in trouble. If this conversation had occurred, the old lady would have chewed the cashier up one side and down the other, told him she would use whatever bag she darn well pleased and then complained to management and had all her friends do the same until the cashier was reprimanded or fired.

[silverleaf]

We didn’t have Jerry Springer back then, either

[Sacajaweau]

We saved our newspapers. When we had a monstrous pile, all neatly tied with twine into "packages", we called the garbage man. He took them away AND PAID US FOR THEM.

Now we have to pay to have them taken away.

[Arrowhead1952]

I posted this for all the older FReepers to add to the list. Nah, we weren’t green at all.

[J40000]

Those went out in the name of ‘saving trees’. They FORCED us into plastic and NOW they’re wanting us to bring in our own burlap bags...

[eastforker]

And no one evev mentioned the special recycling of the Sears and Roebuck catalog.

[LibLieSlayer]

Give me a few more years! ;-)

LLS

[NativeSon]

I am 41, grew up in Philly. "Di-Dee" Diaper service for cloth diapers, milkman, Charley's Chips - pretzels and chips in tins that were returned/reused. Hucksters - that dang pa system; "Jerseee toe-may-toes, 3 lbs for a doll-lar", Schmidt's brewery in the hood, that's where your beer came from in those returnables. Frank's, local sodas in returnable bottles.

All your cousins lived within walking distance so you could easily get to all those "hammidowns". And yes, we all did walk to school and we walked home for lunch made by Mom -you knew when it was noon when the 12 o'clock whistle blew.

[Sacajaweau]

Buttons....I still have a button box.

We sewed our socks. There was always a needle in the curtain over the sink.....for emergencies.

[momtothree]

My FIL (rest his soul) grew up during the Depression and he was a SAVER. I think the funniest thing he ever did was what we called “the underwear tomato garden”. He had planted about fifteen tomato plants and needed something to support them to a post. He had tons of old underwear (he had saved, of course) and used the waist bands to secure the plants. Some of the underwear was so old that the brands were unknown. He found that the plant was able to stretch and the undie band didn’t cut the plant. It was a comical sight to say the least. He saved rubber bands, any sort of grocery tie/bag, old socks, flour and sugar bags... pretty much everything.

[Sacajaweau]

We used the paper bags to drain homemade French Fries. I don’t think they even had Scott Towels back then.