Ain't that the truth!!! A very timely bit of reminiscing, Glen.

My family chides me all the time about all of the "junk" I put aside, but a lot of the time, when I need something odd, I can find the stuff to cob it together. We use wooden kitchen utensils and metal ones instead of plastic, for the most part, and as they need it, I refurbish them, instead of throwing them away and buying new; we are still using cast iron pans that are over a hundred years old, and we couldn't count the number of non-stick things we have worn out and tossed or put in the recycle bins. There are a lot of things we used to do that were much more "green" than much we do today, and over the years, commerce has not always encouraged "green" living. When I was a kid, right after WWII, we did use cloth grocery bags that my Grandmas made from old dungarees, or some other heavy fabric that they re-claimed, and even when we did get paper bags at the store, we always used them for other things after we got the groceries or whatever out of them. Some years ago, we were closing and clearing out my grandparent's place after Grandma passed, and came across a couple of those dungaree bags. We took them home and when we went to the grocery, we took them with us. The store wouldn't put our stuff in them: liability concerns the manager said. We still use cloth bags, but we usually bag our own groceries, too.