Does waste bother you

[Bama Believer]

My wife's grandparents were the same way. My wifes grandmother never threw anything away. If she thought that someone could fix it or reuse it, she kept it. They had a huge beef cattle farm.

My grandmother used to have a tub for dishwater, (washed by hand of course, pre dishwashers lol) after she would wash the dishes she would take the water out and pour in flower bed to keep from wasting the water.....

 

[Copejunkie]

My grandmother would keep her tin foil that she would use. She would wash it and then fold it up neatly and store it in a drawer. Milk jugs, plastic butter dishes, wrapping paper and bows were all reused as much as possible.

 

[Nitt1300]

We may waste as much as we use in this country, yeah it bothers me.

 

[Snoophawg]

I doubt the young'uns could deal with long distance charges for calling the next town over, much less paying internet by the minute with a 14.4 kbit modem. Don't get me started on baud rate and BBS boards. And I can remember having to walk across the room to change a black and white television channel … up hill, both ways in the snow. GET OF MY DAMN LAWN AND THAT AINT REAL MUSIC!!!

When I was a teenager, my friend had a C64 with a 300 baud modem.

I actually miss playing bbs games some. I loved Tradewars.

 

[LyquidMetal]

Back in the 90's some stuffed suit hot air gasbag pol, in the voice of Foghorn Leghorn said, "There's to much consuming going on out there."

Well, those folks who came thru the great depression and WW2 were a totally different breed for sure.

 

[batchaps4me]

When I was a teenager, my friend had a C64 with a 300 baud modem.
I actually miss playing bbs games some. I loved Tradewars.

My favorite early computer game was Blue Sky, Grey Seas(something like that) where you had to keep a map with pieces and swap 5 1/4" disks. My first puter hard drive had a stunning 640k capacity. I went from that to a 286 25 MHz with turbo … raised it to 33 MHz. Then I went to a 486DX with math coprocessor and it was off to the Napster races!!!

 

[Nod4Eight]

My grandmother used to talk about only being allotted so many "tickets" or something to buy meat and stuff during WWII when my grandfather was in the war, so she had to make it stretch.

Rations. My grandma told me about those times too. Can you imagine having to do that today?

 

[RTR...USN (ret)]

Rations. My grandma told me about those times too. Can you imagine having to do that today?

I remember my grandma had some old rations cards in a shoebox. Lost when her house burned.

 

[Nod4Eight]

I remember my grandma had some old rations cards in a shoebox. Lost when her house burned.

My grandma had some as well. I wish I had paid more attention when we cleaned out her house. At the time I was 18 and, since she raised me, I was forced to find a place to live etc so I was fairly preoccupied.