What a Waste
My grandparents had the same phone in their home for 40 years.My parents never wasted a thing.
From Facebook:
Checking out at the store, the young cashier suggested to the much older lady that she should bring her own grocery bags, because plastic bags are not good for the environment.
The woman apologized to the young girl and explained, "We didn't have this 'green thing' back in my earlier days."
The young clerk responded, "That's our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save our environment for future generations."
The older lady went on to explain:
Back then, we returned milk bottles, soda bottles and beer bottles to the store. The store sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilized and refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and over. So they really were recycled.
We walked up stairs because we didn't have an escalator in every store and office building. We walked to the grocery store and didn't climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two blocks.
Back then we washed the baby's diapers because we didn't have the throw away kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy-gobbling machine burning up 220 volts. Wind and solar power really did dry our clothes back in our early days. Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing.
Back then we had one TV, or radio, in the house -- not a TV in every room. And the TV had a small screen, not a screen the size of the state of Montana. In the kitchen we blended and stirred by hand because we didn't have electric machines to do everything for us. When we packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, we used wadded up old newspapers to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap. Back then, we didn't fire up an engine and burn gasoline just to cut the lawn. We used a push mower that ran on human power. We exercised by working so we didn't need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity.
We drank from a fountain when we were thirsty instead of using a cup or a plastic bottle every time we had a drink of water. We refilled writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and we replaced the razor blade in a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got dull.
Back then, people took the streetcar or a bus and kids rode their bikes to school or walked. We had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances. And we didn't need a computerized gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 23,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest burger joint.
A well deserved
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No phones, no computers, we had a small screen TV that we paid for by putting coins in a box.
It is a true saying, what you never had, you never miss. O my! I was so very happy, life was sunshine everyday to me, young in love with my husband and a little baby girl, it was like playing house to me.
My husbands wage was £10 a week at the time.
This is my kinda blog, a trip down memory lane, love it. Thanks for sharing.
The old world of doing things is making a come back!!...farm to table ideology chefs which means using local ingredients...solar heating and wind energy...bottle returns also coming back in style...organics as well...people are concerned about their carbon footprint and I hope this will continue the momentum!!...as for technology...I love the internet but do dislike our reliance on cell phones as a form of communicating...I hope schools will employ more physical sports regardless of the cost...we are turning the children today into obese and lethargic people that will have a multitude of health problems in their future...city planning is also to blame...most cities you have to drive cars to get to stores...one thing I enjoy about Vancouver...I can walk to the local market and ride my bike due to more bike lanes...the city is evolving to accommodate a greener way of getting around!!
8-track, Betamax, VCR,CD DVD,Blueray
Now my family has a fleet of cars
This is cool. Comments from 3 continents!
In my dreams!