There is plenty of room in the conservative movement for hippies. We always teased my Grandma Ruby, telling her she was the original recycler. She was a Dust Bowler and she never squandered anything. She rinsed her bread wrappers and hung them on the clothes line to reuse as cellophane wrap. She cut the tops off her bleach bottle and used the bottom as an organizer and the top as a funnel. Of course she did all sorts of wonderful crafts. Nothing was ever wasted. The Dust Bowlers were the original conservative hippies.
Some folks call my husband a packrat, I call him brilliant. Although sometimes it gets frustrating because it starts to feel like Sanford and Son around here. But he is quite ingenuitive.
I don’t buy those ‘cheap’ Glad plastic bowls that you it’s ok to leave somewhere, I just use butter tubs and things like that. Not as pretty, but free! I’m using the butter anyway!