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When I was young the "egg

CVille Dem — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 00:04:09 +0000

When I was young the "egg man" who brought us dairy supplies to our door, also washed, dried, and sold the cloth bags that chicken feed came in. The bags were printed with all kinds of designs with the idea of reusing them. Pretty much every stitch of clothing I wore was made by my mother from those feed bags.

I learned to sew by watching her, and I can sew anything I want to now.

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Donal — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 16:56:20 +0000

In reply to The Green Thing

You always said people don't

A Guy Called LULU — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 16:06:12 +0000

In reply to People were definitely more

You always said people don't do what they believe in they just do what's most
convenient then they repent
And I always said. "Hang on to me baby and let's hope that the roof stays on".

Brownsville Girl, B. Dylan

Yes.There were only paper

Richard Day — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 16:02:38 +0000

In reply to The Green Thing

Yes.

There were only paper bags at the grocery.

There were newspaper drives.

You are really on to something here. I look at the dumpsters alongside this project and except for the one marked 'cardboard' anything and everything is thrown into them.

Great take!

People were definitely more

Donal — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 15:52:09 +0000

In reply to Actually there is more truth

People were definitely more likely to use muscle power, and reuse stuff, but they weren't saints. They burned leaves, and threw trash in streams and rivers, and used pesticides.

Actually there is more truth

cmaukonen — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 15:26:24 +0000

In reply to The Green Thing

Actually there is more truth to it than you know. My grandmother would walk or use the bus or rapid transit to go shopping down town. Walked to the corner market and a little further to the Finnish bakery.

Very few people had more than one car. And in my family, If us kids wanted to go someplace we rode our bikes there and we live out in the country. We had one TV...period. But I have to admit, I did have my own radio. Which I repaired myself to have one.