Being green... the truth behind the "older" generation vs today's youth.

[theGinsue]

I miss wandering around the neighborhood (particularly in/around the ditches) & looking for soda bottles (or, as we called in back in KCMO, "pop" bottles). We'd collect about 3 or 4 each and go turn them into the grocery store to earn $0.05 each; just enough to buy a candy bar.

[hollohas]

Yup. More people grew their own vegetables instead of driving to the store every other day to buy "fresh" produce that was just shipped on a big rig thousands of miles.

They canned their own food, reusing jars for decades instead of buying tin cans at the grocery.

They fixed broken appliances instead of buying a new one every time something didn't work just right.

Few people had air conditioners.

Heck, my mom used to make all her own clothes...now clothes come from the other side of the earth.

When shoes wore out they got new soles instead of being thrown out for a new pair.

On and on...

[3beansalad]

Remember community gardens? Can't tell you how many veggies my folks grew in those when I was a kid

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[hatidua]

And people I connect with in the classified section wonder why, while I'm on the freeway en route to meet them, I won't text while driving to answer their question of "I'm ten minutes out, how far are you?".

[hghclsswhitetrsh]

Ronin = al gore? Watch out for manbearpig!

[Jeffrey Lebowski]

I miss wandering around the neighborhood (particularly in/around the ditches) & looking for soda bottles (or, as we called in back in KCMO, "pop" bottles). We'd collect about 3 or 4 each and go turn them into the grocery store to earn $0.05 each; just enough to buy a candy bar.

And this is the center of why the old lady above (and her generation) did what they do.
Incent folks to do the above, and they will.
It is cheaper to not be "green."

[Gman]

I have to say the paper bag book covers were the best! At the beginning of every school year all my siblings and I spent the first night wrapping books.

I did the same thing. Wrapped those babies TIGHT...and they lasted the whole school year.

[BlasterBob]

Old folks RULE!

[blacklabel]

I can't wait to get a push reel mower. I hate gas mowers.

My mom lived with us for 6 months recently and it was amazing what she would reuse.

[Jeffrey Lebowski]

I can't wait to get a push reel mower. I hate gas mowers.

If you have no hills and not a lot of land - they absolutely rock.
I loved mine when I lived in HR.
Here? Not so much.