WASTEFUL OLD FOLKS

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[Grizzled Bear]

Awe, that was just mean!

That wouldn’t have worked in my dysfunctional household. I’d have packed my own bag!

[trisham]

Interesting observation. I think you have something there. :)

[IYAS9YAS]

40 years ago, who would have ever believed that a whole nation could be convinced to actually BUY water in bottles?

My grandparents used plastic milk jugs for "bottled water" on the farm. They'd fill them at night and put them in the freezer, take them out the next day and put them in the truck. There's nothing so good as ice-cold well water when you're bucking bales in the summer.

[trisham]

Wow. How bad can a 4 year old be? Poor kid.

[MEG33]

LOL

[trisham]

I always hated watermelon. As may be somewhat apparent, I was a quirky kid.

I'm perfectly normal now.

[Arrowhead1952]

The ethanol in fuel is also a killer for fuel systems. I try to find ethanol free fuel, but it is getting harder to find. I use mid range in my mowers now. I still use some old metering rods to clean the orifices.

[TheOldLady]

You’re right on as usual, Mr. Guy.

[DJ MacWoW]

She was mean. And dysfunctional. I still used to watch Dolly from our front window. She really was beautiful.

[American Constitutionalist]

You save more money by buying your own water filter and filter you own water, and the quality is just as good or better than the bottled water you buy at the store, it’s all a scam.

[DJ MacWoW]

Didn’t jump through hoops fast enough? My grandparents thought I was a very good child. My Mom could sit the 3 of us on a bench in a store and try on clothes and we never moved or made a peep so I couldn’t have been that bad.

[DJ MacWoW]

I still don’t care for watermelon. :-)

[texas_mrs]

I have a button box. It’s an old cookie tin.

When I was a kid, my mom used to buy new fabric (she sewed most of the clothes for all 3 of us girls) at a place called "The Trading Post". They had all manner of used stuff there, and some new, too. But the one thing they had that I LOVED was a 55 gallon-sized cardboard drum that was FILLED with old buttons! I could go through that thing for an hour and not find two alike & I would always wonder how old the oldest ones were. I still wonder where that thing wound up when they closed.

[Logic n' Reason]

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

Kind of a "we are "dust", and to "dust" we shall return" sort of thing, huh??

LOL!!

[Arrowhead1952]

The only time I get the rider out now, is when I have to mow my yard and the neighbor’s. She doesn’t have a fenced yard. I mow the back yard with the self propelled mower since it has a bagger.

[American Constitutionalist]

Remember ? Nothing goes to waste, there is a purpose for everything, even Cat poop.
I saw some woman C.E.O. out west somewhere near Idaho that runs some kind of garbage to gasification plant that turns trash, landfill waste into high grade racing fuel, I don't know how they do it, but it works.
The Sweds back during WWII use the process of gasification to run their cars, trucks, buses because they could not produce their own petroleum.
Yes, they ran their engines off of wood chips.

[bgill]

Heard on the news the other day that Austin was banning plastic bags in the near future. Just added plastic bags, aka litter bags, to my hoarding list right below light bulbs.

[Logic n' Reason]

How about the lunch box most of us carried to school...and if you were an "outside" worker, the lunch box/pail you carried to work? They lasted forever!

Now, of course, it's a "brown paper bag"...or one buys one's lunch wrapped in waxed paper with a drink in a styrafoam cup.

[trisham]

I always wonder about children that are too well-behaved. Actually, I wonder more about their parents.

I have a feeling that you are quite a different type of mother than your mother was.

[Arrowhead1952]

We use the plastic bags for cleaning the cat litter boxes. I’ve used a lot of the old buttons on clothes that have broken or lost buttons.