Back in the Day (35)
Ever look at the people at the recycling center? They are mostly grey headed or older people, seldom anyone under 30. Who will benefit from recycling? Not those old folks; they will be dead before it makes a major difference. Recycling will benefit people in the more distant future, But the younger folks can't be bothered to recycle. They are in too much of a hurry, to get home and spend hours playing pointless video games. 
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To be fair old people and oldendaysers have/had all this free time and nothing to do with it. You can't say that they're too busy working or having fun to recycle.
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MadDogMack: Ever look at the people at the recycling center? They are mostly grey headed or older people, seldom anyone under 30. Who will benefit from recycling? Not those old folks; they will be dead before it makes a major difference. Recycling will benefit people in the more distant future, But the younger folks can't be bothered to recycle. They are in too much of a hurry, to get home and spend hours playing pointless video games.
I find a lot of older people, over 55, are concened for their children and grandchildren, once again they are being dug out of a hole (the children) by the senior generation, we've already given them the welfare state, after our parents died in the great war , keeping them free.A few of the very young are beginning to take notice, but it may already be too late.
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I thought this was a "Back in the Day" thread 
Ugh
But it looks more like an ecology, climate tax, shame and blame thread. Someone let me know when the propoganda targets the biggest offenders like China and Saudi Arabia
UghBut it looks more like an ecology, climate tax, shame and blame thread. Someone let me know when the propoganda targets the biggest offenders like China and Saudi Arabia
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Back in the day you had a wife for this. A woman's place in the home finding creative ways to conserve a small amount of resources. Rationing cannot be that successful without the input of a housewife.
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What is this thread about? 
can you interpret to proper American English
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I think, but I'm not sure, that this thread was supposed to be about things like this:
A pound of coffee was 16 ounces for $-------------------
Now a pound of coffee is 12 ounces and costs more than back in the day when it weighed 16 ounces
A pound of coffee was 16 ounces for $-------------------
Now a pound of coffee is 12 ounces and costs more than back in the day when it weighed 16 ounces
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tomcatty: Yesterday after shopping in our local supermarket, I was in the queue at the Check Out, and heard when 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 apologised to the young girl & then sighed, "We didn't have this 'green thing' back in my earlier days." The young clerk responded, "That's our problem today. You folk didn't do enough to save our environment for future generations." The older lady said "Ah yes you're right -- our generation didn't have the "green thing" in its day."
She sighed then continued: Back then, we returned milk bottles, lemonade bottles & beer bottles to the shops. The shops then sent them back to the plant to be washed, sterilized & refilled, so those same bottles were used over & over, thus REALLY were recycled. But we didn't have the "green thing" back in our day.
Grocery stores put our groceries into brown paper bags that we reused for numerous things. Most memorable was the use of brown paper bags as book covers for our school books. This was to ensure that public property (the books provided for our use by the school) were not defaced by our scribblings. Then we were able to personalise our books on their brown paper bag/covers.
But, too bad we didn't do the "green thing" back then. I remember how we walked up stairs because we didn't have an escalator in every store or office building; walked to the grocery store & didn't climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go 200 yards. . . . But she was right. We didn't have the "green thing" in our day.
Back then we washed the baby's nappies 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 & solar power really did dry our clothes back in our days. Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing. . . . But that young lady is right; we didn't have the "green thing" back in our day.
Tom where did you copy paste from? The woman apologised to the young girl & then sighed, "We didn't have this 'green thing' back in my earlier days." The young clerk responded, "That's our problem today. You folk didn't do enough to save our environment for future generations." The older lady said "Ah yes you're right -- our generation didn't have the "green thing" in its day."
She sighed then continued: Back then, we returned milk bottles, lemonade bottles & beer bottles to the shops. The shops then sent them back to the plant to be washed, sterilized & refilled, so those same bottles were used over & over, thus REALLY were recycled. But we didn't have the "green thing" back in our day.
Grocery stores put our groceries into brown paper bags that we reused for numerous things. Most memorable was the use of brown paper bags as book covers for our school books. This was to ensure that public property (the books provided for our use by the school) were not defaced by our scribblings. Then we were able to personalise our books on their brown paper bag/covers.
But, too bad we didn't do the "green thing" back then. I remember how we walked up stairs because we didn't have an escalator in every store or office building; walked to the grocery store & didn't climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go 200 yards. . . . But she was right. We didn't have the "green thing" in our day.
Back then we washed the baby's nappies 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 & solar power really did dry our clothes back in our days. Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing. . . . But that young lady is right; we didn't have the "green thing" back in our day.
It's a great text... just not your own ...
Either that or your text has been shared all over fbook for the last few years ....
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secretagent09: I think, but I'm not sure, that this thread was supposed to be about things like this:
A pound of coffee was 16 ounces for $-------------------
Now a pound of coffee is 12 ounces and costs more than back in the day when it weighed 16 ounces
A pound of coffee was 16 ounces for $-------------------
Now a pound of coffee is 12 ounces and costs more than back in the day when it weighed 16 ounces
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I remember the days when we took the bottles and jars back to the shop and made some pocket money...
Nobody used plastic bags, brown paper was the wrapping material... I don't remember any sliced and vacuumed in a nylon food...
Yes, we didn't have the "green thing" back then...
Nobody used plastic bags, brown paper was the wrapping material... I don't remember any sliced and vacuumed in a nylon food...
Yes, we didn't have the "green thing" back then...
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pKrema: I remember the days when we took the bottles and jars back to the shop and made some pocket money...
Nobody used plastic bags, brown paper was the wrapping material... I don't remember any sliced and vacuumed in a nylon food...
Yes, we didn't have the "green thing" back then...
Happy New Year lovely pK, Nobody used plastic bags, brown paper was the wrapping material... I don't remember any sliced and vacuumed in a nylon food...
Yes, we didn't have the "green thing" back then...
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Happy new year, Tom...
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I remember taking soda bottles back to the store in my little red wagon to get two cents refund on each bottle.
The milk man delivered milk in glass bottles which we returned to him when he delivered the next supply of milk.
I used brown paper bags to cover my school books. How else could I doodle the word "love" and the name of the boy I was dreaming about with hearts and arrows.
Frozen vegetables were too expensive for my family so we had a huge garden where we grew corn, green beans, tomatoes, kohlrabi, carrots and eggplant.
We had a stove in the kitchen that burned firewood to get heat for the house. Later on we had a coal burning furnace with a very big pile of coal right there in the basement. I remember shoveling coal into that furnace.
We had a wringer washing machine like the one in my picture for washing clothes. Then we hanged them outside to dry.
My parents didn't have a telephone until after I was married which was when I was 20 years old. My boyfriend and my father worked at the same place so I wrote (handwritten) letters to him and my father would deliver it to my boyfriend and he wrote a letter that my father brought home to me.
The milk man delivered milk in glass bottles which we returned to him when he delivered the next supply of milk.
I used brown paper bags to cover my school books. How else could I doodle the word "love" and the name of the boy I was dreaming about with hearts and arrows.
Frozen vegetables were too expensive for my family so we had a huge garden where we grew corn, green beans, tomatoes, kohlrabi, carrots and eggplant.
We had a stove in the kitchen that burned firewood to get heat for the house. Later on we had a coal burning furnace with a very big pile of coal right there in the basement. I remember shoveling coal into that furnace.
We had a wringer washing machine like the one in my picture for washing clothes. Then we hanged them outside to dry.
My parents didn't have a telephone until after I was married which was when I was 20 years old. My boyfriend and my father worked at the same place so I wrote (handwritten) letters to him and my father would deliver it to my boyfriend and he wrote a letter that my father brought home to me.
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Mongo_Returns: Mongo not understand. Back in what day?
It means...............I remember when blah blah blahYour profile says you are 39 years old so you can't go back in the day as far as I did (in the post above you) but there must be something you can think of that is very different now from when you were a young boy.
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secretagent09: It means...............I remember when blah blah blah
Your profile says you are 39 years old so you can't go back in the day as far as I did (in the post above you) but there must be something you can think of that is very different now from when you were a young boy.
Thank you! Mongo remembers when he could talk to people and they were looking at him and not their phones. Your profile says you are 39 years old so you can't go back in the day as far as I did (in the post above you) but there must be something you can think of that is very different now from when you were a young boy.
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I too, remember some of "the back in the day" things. I remember wrapping my school books in brown paper bags and my sister and I wore hand me down clothing. When my daughter was born 28 years ago, some people were still using disposable diapers, unfortunately I wasn't one who did. I was too young to remember recycling milk jars and glass drinking bottles but my parents said they had done it.
As of this month, my state will no longer bag our groceries in plastic bags. Reusable only. I think it's a great law put in to place.
Nice thread Tom.
As of this month, my state will no longer bag our groceries in plastic bags. Reusable only. I think it's a great law put in to place.
Nice thread Tom.
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Friskyone: I too, remember some of "the back in the day" things. I remember wrapping my school books in brown paper bags and my sister and I wore hand me down clothing. When my daughter was born 28 years ago, some people were still using disposable diapers, unfortunately I wasn't one who did. I was too young to remember recycling milk jars and glass drinking bottles but my parents said they had done it.
As of this month, my state will no longer bag our groceries in plastic bags. Reusable only. I think it's a great law put in to place.
Nice thread Tom.
Hey Frisk As of this month, my state will no longer bag our groceries in plastic bags. Reusable only. I think it's a great law put in to place.
Nice thread Tom.
I also wore hand me down clothes. My daughter was born in 1964. I didn't know there was such a thing as disposable diapers so I soaked her diapers in a pail of bleach for a couple days before I washed them and hung them outside on a clothesline.
I agree that it's a good idea to be done with plastic bags in grocery stores. I see people using cloth bags to carry groceries in now but it will take a very long time before it becomes nationwide.
People will still use plastic bags for their sandwich, to carry makeup, to put food in the fridge. They will still use a 30 gallon plastic bag in their garbage can. When I was a kid we had a steel garbage can that didn't have a plastic bag in it. It held all the disgusting garbage right there in the can.
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secretagent09: Hey Frisk
I also wore hand me down clothes. My daughter was born in 1964. I didn't know there was such a thing as disposable diapers so I soaked her diapers in a pail of bleach for a couple days before I washed them and hung them outside on a clothesline.
I agree that it's a good idea to be done with plastic bags in grocery stores. I see people using cloth bags to carry groceries in now but it will take a very long time before it becomes nationwide.
People will still use plastic bags for their sandwich, to carry makeup, to put food in the fridge. They will still use a 30 gallon plastic bag in their garbage can. When I was a kid we had a steel garbage can that didn't have a plastic bag in it. It held all the disgusting garbage right there in the can.
Hey ladyI also wore hand me down clothes. My daughter was born in 1964. I didn't know there was such a thing as disposable diapers so I soaked her diapers in a pail of bleach for a couple days before I washed them and hung them outside on a clothesline.
I agree that it's a good idea to be done with plastic bags in grocery stores. I see people using cloth bags to carry groceries in now but it will take a very long time before it becomes nationwide.
People will still use plastic bags for their sandwich, to carry makeup, to put food in the fridge. They will still use a 30 gallon plastic bag in their garbage can. When I was a kid we had a steel garbage can that didn't have a plastic bag in it. It held all the disgusting garbage right there in the can.
I was very young when the garbage cans were cans.
I agree about the plastic items that will continue to be used, I wonder if aluminum foil would work instead of plastic baggies. I remember my SACK lunches (sandwiches) were wrapped in foil.
I think plastic straws are also on their way out over here. I read somewhere that the paper straws are not good for us health wise. I didn't finish the article so I don't know why. I should google it.
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The woman apologised to the young girl & then sighed, "We didn't have this 'green thing' back in my earlier days." The young clerk responded, "That's our problem today. You folk didn't do enough to save our environment for future generations." The older lady said "Ah yes you're right -- our generation didn't have the "green thing" in its day."
She sighed then continued: Back then, we returned milk bottles, lemonade bottles & beer bottles to the shops. The shops then sent them back to the plant to be washed, sterilized & refilled, so those same bottles were used over & over, thus REALLY were recycled. But we didn't have the "green thing" back in our day.
Grocery stores put our groceries into brown paper bags that we reused for numerous things. Most memorable was the use of brown paper bags as book covers for our school books. This was to ensure that public property (the books provided for our use by the school) were not defaced by our scribblings. Then we were able to personalise our books on their brown paper bag/covers.
But, too bad we didn't do the "green thing" back then. I remember how we walked up stairs because we didn't have an escalator in every store or office building; walked to the grocery store & didn't climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go 200 yards. . . . But she was right. We didn't have the "green thing" in our day.
Back then we washed the baby's nappies 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 & solar power really did dry our clothes back in our days. Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing. . . . But that young lady is right; we didn't have the "green thing" back in our day.