Uh-oh...I remember doing most of this too. Does that make me a selfish old person? :-)
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.
I would have called for the general manager and made a huge scene and demanded an apology from the clerk.
LLS
Whatever happened to paper grocery bags?
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.
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!
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)
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.
I posted this for all the older FReepers to add to the list. Nah, we weren’t green at all.
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.
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’.
Since the enviro-weenies took over, the new ways pollute, pollute, pollute. Enviro-weenies enviro-weenied the environment and called it a cure for pollution. Support pollution, send an enviro-weenie group a check?
40 years ago, who would have ever believed that a whole nation could be convinced to actually BUY water in bottles?
40 years ago, who would have ever believed that a whole nation could be convinced to actually BUY water in bottles?
Great post...thanks.
We didn’t have some inconsiderate idiot blocking the aisles in the grocery/department store, while obliviously talking on a cellphone.
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?
Bookmark.
“didn’t climb into a 300-horsepower machine “
That gets two to three times the gas mileage of the cars of that day.
“We refilled writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen”
Then threw away that glass bottle the ink can in.
I could go on, but this entire article was writtnen by a Luddite, a liberal, not an older person.
Back then, you conserved because you were frugal. Today, people conserve because it has become the closest thing they know to morality.