Have you had doubt about independent Facebook fact-checkers? I don't think I will ever believe them again (not that I had much faith in them prior to this)!
Really??? They never met my mother nor countless others who were the product of the depression. Not only did she wash her aluminum foil and save bacon grease, but also wrapping paper and ribbon, bread bags, paper bags, styrofoam containers, butter tubs . . . there wasn't much she didn't save. And I'm quite certain many are still doing this. I find this absolutely ridiculous!!!
Thanks so much for stopping by . . . and listening to my rant.
Pug hugs 😊
Lauren
Pug hugs 😊
Lauren
I can see your point... In the depression, my grandmother probably didn't have aluminum foil paper but I can remember my mother saving the brown paper that the grocery was wrapped in and she also saved the white cotton thread that was used to tie the package. I can remember our corner grocery store had a big roll of brown paper with a cutting bar on the counter.
ReplyDeleteAs a child, I would iron the brown paper and reuse it to write or draw on. I would tie the white thread on a little branch and put a hook and a worm as bait and catch little trouts in the brook for my dinner. I remember saving the foil papers from cigarette boxes to make into fancy mats for the back car window shelf.
I still save some plastic containers for some storage but now most of them go in the recycle bin. My husband drives me nuts by saving every paper bag and twist ties which we never reuse.
Hugs, Julia
My Grand Mothers even darned socks , & stockings .....does anyone do that anymore ???
ReplyDeleteWho wrote that?? Crazy, I can remember early married days when we had very little money, I reused our paper lunch sacks, washed out/dried baggies and ironed wrapping paper to reuse and of course all the bows. I still save all bows on presents given to me to re-use. Our landfills are full, we have become a throw away society. Older people who went threw the depression can tell you stories about "saving".
ReplyDeleteOh yes I recall bacon grease being saved and used for cooking eggs and various other meals. Also the paper bags, plastic containers and I'm guilty of paper bags and containers myself. And also guilty in the past for saving wrapping paper and bows but I've still a supply of them in the attic, LOL,
ReplyDeleteOk...this INFURIATES me! (I had other choice words but walked away for a bit until I wouldn't offend others.) Not only did my grandmother do this (the one I knew), so did my mom...and believe it or not, I still save bacon grease (nothing tastes as good as things fried in bacon grease...and how would I make my mom's molasses cookies without it??) In fact, I have one of those little "grease" savers on my stove. We didn't have that growing up, so I consider myself spoiled. And my mum saved and reused foil...wrapping paper, bows (I'm guilty there too) and those dang plastic bread bags. How I hated washing and drying them when doing dishes!! My rant is NOT over, but I will leave it here. Still can't trust what might come out of my head and into the comment. ~Robin~
ReplyDeleteMy grandparents and parents saved everything. My mom still does. My gramma fried eggs in bacon grease. The BEST refried beans are cooked in bacon grease. They saved everything. Maybe if those fat checkers had to go through a depression they might realize the truth...better yet the fast checkers are probably those sitting on their butt getting their pay checks for free. Janice
ReplyDeleteMy Dad referred to the saved bacon grease as "the poor man's butter". He also grew up during the Depression.
ReplyDeleteUse it up, wear it out, Make do or do without--this is something my Mother and Grandmother often said as my Mother was two years old when the Great Depression started. They saved everything, used everything until it fell apart. (I'm at the rug retreat this week, Cathy is a great teacher and she says hello)
ReplyDeleteI try to reuse everything I can. Empty plastic containers and glass jars are great when sharing food, I don’t expect them back but most do.
ReplyDeleteGreat Grandmother?! *I* still do some of those things - learned from Mom first. I'm trying to cut back but still can't resist keeping a good box, jar, bag, lightly used foil& reclosable plastic bags, and it's a sad day when DH dumps the bacon grease goes in the icky can before I can save it when I'm running low. We'll not discuss saving buttons and zippers from clothing too tatty to use, and those get cut up into rags if it's suitable fabric. Baking pans with peeling no-stick finish end up in the garage to corral little bits. I did stop saving margarine tubs for leftovers (still use them elsewhere) due to too many unintentional science experiments that went bad - very bad.
ReplyDeleteAnd not only that, my granny had chickens and a COW that everyone fed so as to share the milk, and every bit of her house had gardens, she also had some FISH in a lil' pond she put in one corner (for eating) -- She had a huge row of Wax Myrtles and she boiled the berries and got the wax - wow, that's just astounding, the way reality is being rewritten, and I can't say more because I might just blow up! GRRRR
ReplyDeleteDon’t know what world that person lives in, but it certainly isn’t this one!!!!
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