WASTEFUL OLD FOLKS

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[JohnD9207]

Great post...thanks.

[American Constitutionalist]

Just think of all the things that get thrown out into the garbage or taken to the dump because some people either don't know how to fix it or to lazy to fix it.
Poor people know how to fix things that are discarded by those who can buy another item if it get's broken or worn out.

[TheOldLady]

Okay. I’ll own up to having a button box, but mine is in a divided case, and they’re sorted by color.

[ducks and runs away, dang neatnik!]

[NativeSon]

Nu Di eh?, my Mom called it "Di-dee" so I thought that was the name....We had those diaper hampers for years after. How about Abbott's dairy, Breyer’s, Pott’s ice cream - in your backyard.

[TomGuy]

We didn’t have some inconsiderate idiot blocking the aisles in the grocery/department store, while obliviously talking on a cellphone.

[trisham]

I save buttons in my sewing kit. I tear up old flannel sheets and towels and keep them for my husband to use when polishing his guitars, or to use if something spills on the floor, or to use as smaller towels to dry off the dogs when they come in during rain or snow, or any other need that would require multiple paper towels. If one of the dogs knocks over the water bowl, these rags are perfect. Speaking of the water bowl, I keep it sitting on a plastic lid from a take-out order. It keeps the metal bowl from marring the tile, and I can replace it whenever I choose.

[TheOldLady]

We buy gallons of distilled water for the espresso machine and refill them with the RO water from the tap. It tastes really good, and we have a nice emergency store in the basement (without power, the well pump does not work) along with the food supply.

Next purchase: a generator

[Arrowhead1952]

I picked up two lawnmowers from people’s trash this past year. One just needed the fuel system cleaned and the other needed a drive belt for the self propelled part to work.

[American Constitutionalist]

I remember when you can ground your own coffee right at the store.

[trisham]

LOL! Not me! :)

[trisham]

I have a bunch of those big soda bottles filled with water in my garage. If we lose power, they will allow us to flush the toilets.

[P.O.E.]

Not a lot of packaged food, either. On the other hand, there are some great recipes on the box and can labels.

Not a whole lot of cleaning choices, either - vinegar, ammonia, bleach, salt, lemon, elbow grease - wasn’t Wagon Train sponsored by 20 Mule Team Borax?

[DJ MacWoW]

I have a bag of paper towels, used, for cleaning the bird bath and kitty “oops”. LOL They come in handy in the winter when the guys track in grit and ice on their boots too. THEN they get thrown away. I have holey towels for cat carriers and the floor in winter.

[American Constitutionalist]

" 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. "

Landfills today have YOU sort the junk out and into dumpsters, they don't throw metals, plastic, electronics, motor oil into the landfills anymore.

[TomGuy]

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

In the early 90s one of the TV stations in Fort Worth did a special on 'bottled' water. They showed a video of a 'bottled' water supplier's truck backed up to an outdoor faucet in an office complex. The driver was filling empty bottles from the tap.

[DJ MacWoW]

Yup. I remember Grandma getting A&P 8 O’Clock coffee. They still have it and it’s fresher but people go for “convenience”.

[TheOldLady]

That’s amazing AH! LOL!

You should clean them up, paint them, and sell them back to the folks who threw them away. Switch them around so you don’t sell them their own mowers back, LOL!

[JimRed]

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

I refill the plastic bottles from the tap- c'mon in, the water's fine!

[Arrowhead1952]

I can’t stand it when someone is on a cell phone in the store, and especially when they have their “phone voice” that can be heard several aisles away.

[DJ MacWoW]

I use old coffee jugs for toilet flushing water in case the electric goes out. The blue ones have handles.