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'We did not have a disposable “Made in China” culture like we do now. When you bought a toaster, it worked for decades, and it looked good just as long. If it broke, you had it repaired. You did not simply toss it into a landfill and head out to a big box store to buy another. . . Yes, even the toaster was joyous in its design.'

How true! When my mother died in 2004 she still had the same toaster that I remember her having all my life. And it still worked, had a high gloss mirror like finish and toasted about a loaf of bread a day in it's hey day. My folks didn't throw away anything.

I inherited that gene. I still haven't bought a flat screen TV because the one I bought 15 years ago is still perfectly good and I can't bring myself to just toss out a perfectly good TV. Anf I's have to toss it out...Goodwill won't even take them anymore. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2543580/The-people-STILL-living-like-1951-Captivating-portraits-look-inside-Americas-Rockabilly-community.html#ixzz2rA28pYWh Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook

Yet the current generations pride themselves on being environmentally responsible by recycling their daily Evian water bottle and the one-time-use Ziploc bag they put their lunch sandwich in. They have no idea how frugal and responsible people once were.

I inherited that gene. I still haven't bought a flat screen TV because the one I bought 15 years ago is still perfectly good and I can't bring myself to just toss out a perfectly good TV. Anf I's have to toss it out...Goodwill won't even take them anymore. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2543580/The-people-STILL-living-like-1951-Captivating-portraits-look-inside-Americas-Rockabilly-community.html#ixzz2rA28pYWh Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook

I still watch the same TV since April of 1983 when I was a sophomore in high school. It is a 1982 Zenith System 3 with remote control and Mom and I bought it on clearance. Mom passed away November 18th from inflammatory breast cancer but before she passed away, we did find the original bill of sale to the Zenith. While Mom was sick, her sister bought her a 32 inch flat screen. It is a good set but I still use the Zenith a lot more since I never bothered to move it from her bedroom back to the living room. I'll have to let the house go but when I get my own apartment or place, I'll semi-retire the Zenith and use the flat screen perhaps. IT interesting, I'll be watching the 2014 Winter Olympics on the same set I saw the 1984 Sarajevo games as well as the 1984 LA games with Mary Lou Retton.

True story. When we bought the home place from my folks back in 1986, they gave us their 1949 stove and fridge (Fridgidare models) which they bought shortly after they were married the previous year.

Both worked perfectly, the only flaw being a sprung door on the stove when my older brother had repeatedly used it as a stepping stool to filch cookies from the jar on the top shelf some 30 odd years earlier. So we had to push a chair against it when we were using it.

We sold the place to another couple in 1996 along with that stove and fridge, still in same working order. I think it was Goehring who once mocked American industry as being capable of producing only great razor blades and refrigerators.