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Re: Green thing
by [email protected] » Sat Oct 17, 2015 1:20 am
This made me smile too. Yes, we were very selfish bunch back in our day weren't we? We didn't have goods flown from the other side of the globe either. Christmas was very exciting when we saw strange fruit in the small stockings re-used every year, along with wooden toys (made locally) family games - then used forever, alongside strange and tasty meats for our exciting Christmas lunch. How awfully wasteful we were using jumble sales if our Mum's were too busy baking enough bread, cakes and pies to make enough to last a few days (no fridges, let alone freezers) to make sufficient clothes for us and the lazy things taught us nothing of the work ethic we see so much of today as they scrubbed floors by hand, cleaned fireplaces, did all the family laundry that included hankies, home-made sanitary towels, the aforementioned nappies (yuck to the last few) etc. They re-hemmed sheets, turned collars, darned socks (I never saw a new sock!) but NO - they didn't do the green thing back then. Their generation destroyed the planet and taught us to do the same! They scripted and saved
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Re: Green thing
by [email protected] » Sat Oct 17, 2015 1:50 am
Sorry, I got so carried away with it my hand must have slipped when I was trying to correct a Kindle edit that has clearly never heard of scrimping, let alone saving - a classic example of the wonders of the modern 'green' thing! If only we'd heard about the value of credit cards and the voices proclaiming the benefits of, 'Buy today and pay in four years' time', imagine how much we could have saved the planet! When we were married we were thrilled to be given different pieces of furniture from various friends and family who were upgrading - very rare back then. It was fun to save for new bits and pieces and I'm sure we probably appreciated them all the more. Yes, we've been a selfish lot for generations before the advent of the 'green' thing! We can only bow our heads in shame! Mind you, I am guilty now when I look round my beautiful, all mod cons endowed home so I'll skulk off now and do penance as I gaze in awe at the amazing splendour that surrounds me. I'll try to remember the 'bad old days' and recall how we suffered without knowing what we missed! Actually we were all very happy most of the time, I believe. Thanks for sharing though. I thoroughly enjoyed it - apart from the reminder about taking back the lemonade and beer bottles. It was a rule in our house that when you reached the grand old age of sixteen, providing you returned the bottles, you kept the money given back by the vendors (amazingly lucrative in our house) Imagine my dismay when, just as I reached the age of sixteen, it all came to a sudden halt! My Mum quoted Rudyard Kipling and his 'IF' poem and I had to leave the room lest I, too, turned poetical!!
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Re: Green thing
by siestasunbeds » Sun Oct 18, 2015 4:47 pm
This has to be one of the best posts ever on this site.Sadly back home in the UK at the moment but would dearly love to buy you a drink In Stitches in the Tavern when we are next out to our beautiful holiday home in Lo Crispin xx
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