"zxcvbob" > wrote

> Nancy Young wrote:
>> Not long ago Cathy put up a survey, do you save containers.
>> Not me, brings back memories of my mother hoarding those
>> cruddy margarine tubs.

> I save peanut butter jars (for bullets), and coffee cans (for nuts & bolts
> and cartridge brass and stuff.) I may have enough coffee cans now... I've
> actually thrown a few out recently.
>
> I used to save margarine tubs and mayonnaise jars (I used the mayo jars
> for canning) but have recently thrown away or recycled most of them. My
> nature is to hoard things, but I'm working on that; you'd think I lived
> during The Depression.

That's funny ... my parents were Depression kids, I know they
never got over it. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree, but I
got sick of having so much stuff hanging around. I'm more ruthless.

nancy