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U.S. Janet B.

On Thu, 07 Sep 2017 12:23:47 -0300, wrote:

>On Thu, 07 Sep 2017 09:12:41 -0600, U.S. Janet B. >
>wrote:
>
>
>>>>> notbob wrote in rec.food.cooking:
>
>>>>>
>>>>> THere is a classic article where a young teen is being nasty to an
>>>>> older person abut how her generation has to pay for the older person's
>>>>> not being green but the facts were, the older folks didn't live in a
>>>>> disposable economy and most things were reused.
>>>>
>
>The most unlikely things were recycled when I was a kid. There was no
>tape for parcels then and if you received one it was tied up with
>string, carefully, tightly knotted. My grandmother used to sit one of
>us down to unpick all the knots (sacrilege to even think of cutting
>the string) until it would open. If I saw the postman had a parcel
>with him, I made myself scarce so one of the others would have to do
>it!

Chuckle. I can picture that!
Janet US