I rode around for hours on my bicycle gathering pop bottles for the 2 cent deposit so I would have enough cash to see a movie or whatever. Mowing lawns with a push mower would bring in a few dollars as well. Back then we wore out bicycle tires often, new tires wouldn't last all year as it was our way of getting to school and back and everywhere else we went. Back then there were very few overweight or obese children, mainly those who stayed indoors most of the time that didn't own a bicycle and rode to school on a bus if their parents didn't drive them. The schools didn't have air conditioning or even a fan, we just opened the windows for the breeze if there was one.
Most every vegetable we ate was grown in our garden, we ate catfish often as my dad was a great fisherman and hunted a lot also.
Our grocery budget in 1968 was $20 a week for a family of five.
We made ice cream in a wooden bucket with a hand crank. Homemade jelly was the norm then also.
People in my Generation didn't have all this Green Movement thing going on...
KCurtis
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Being Green...
Checking out at the store, the young cashier suggested to the older
woman, that she should bring her own grocery bags because plastic bags
weren't good for the environment.
The woman apologized and explained, "We didn't have this green thing back in my earlier days."
The young clerk responded, "That's our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save our environment for future generations."
She was right -- our generation didn't have the green thing in its day.
Back then, we returned milk bottles, soda bottles and beer bottles to
the store. The store sent them back to the plant to be washed and
sterilized and refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and over.
So they really were truly recycled.
But we didn't have the green thing back in our day.
Grocery stores bagged our groceries in brown paper bags, that we reused
for numerous things, most memorable besides household garbage bags, was
the use of brown paper bags as book covers for our schoolbooks. This
was to ensure that public property, (the books provided for our use by
the school) was not defaced by our scribblings. Then we were able to
personalize our books on the brown paper bags.
But too bad we didn't do the green thing back then.
We walked up stairs, because we didn't have an escalator in every store
and office building. We walked to the grocery store and didn't climb
into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two blocks.
But she was right. We didn't have the green thing in our day.
Back then, we washed the baby's diapers because we didn't have the
throwaway kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy-gobbling
machine burning up 220 volts -- wind and solar power really did dry our
clothes back in our early days. Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their
brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing.
But that young lady is right; we didn't have the green thing back in our day.
Back then, we had one TV, or radio, in the house -- not a TV in every
room. And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief (remember
them?), not a screen the size of the state of Montana. In the kitchen,
we blended and stirred by hand because we didn't have electric machines
to do everything for us. When we packaged a fragile item to send in the
mail, we used wadded up old newspapers to cushion it, not Styrofoam or
plastic bubble wrap. Back then, we didn't fire up an engine and burn
gasoline just to cut the lawn. We used a push mower that ran on human
power. We exercised by working so we didn't need to go to a health club
to run on treadmills that operate on electricity.
But she's right; we didn't have the green thing back then.
We drank from a fountain when we were thirsty instead of using a cup or
a plastic bottle every time we had a drink of water. We refilled
writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and we replaced the
razor blades in a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just
because the blade got dull.
But we didn't have the green thing back then.
Back then, people took the streetcar or a bus and kids rode their bikes
to school or walked instead of turning their moms into a 24-hour taxi
service. We had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of
sockets to power a dozen appliances. And we didn't need a computerized
gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 23,000 miles out in
space in order to find the nearest burger joint.
But isn't it
sad the current generation laments how wasteful we old folks were just
because we didn't have the green thing back then?
Please forward this on to another selfish old person who needs a lesson in conservation from a smart-ass young person.
We don't like being old in the first place, so it doesn't take much to piss us off.
Checking out at the store, the young cashier suggested to the older
woman, that she should bring her own grocery bags because plastic bags
weren't good for the environment.
The woman apologized and explained, "We didn't have this green thing back in my earlier days."
The young clerk responded, "That's our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save our environment for future generations."
She was right -- our generation didn't have the green thing in its day.
Back then, we returned milk bottles, soda bottles and beer bottles to
the store. The store sent them back to the plant to be washed and
sterilized and refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and over.
So they really were truly recycled.
But we didn't have the green thing back in our day.
Grocery stores bagged our groceries in brown paper bags, that we reused
for numerous things, most memorable besides household garbage bags, was
the use of brown paper bags as book covers for our schoolbooks. This
was to ensure that public property, (the books provided for our use by
the school) was not defaced by our scribblings. Then we were able to
personalize our books on the brown paper bags.
But too bad we didn't do the green thing back then.
We walked up stairs, because we didn't have an escalator in every store
and office building. We walked to the grocery store and didn't climb
into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two blocks.
But she was right. We didn't have the green thing in our day.
Back then, we washed the baby's diapers because we didn't have the
throwaway kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy-gobbling
machine burning up 220 volts -- wind and solar power really did dry our
clothes back in our early days. Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their
brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing.
But that young lady is right; we didn't have the green thing back in our day.
Back then, we had one TV, or radio, in the house -- not a TV in every
room. And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief (remember
them?), not a screen the size of the state of Montana. In the kitchen,
we blended and stirred by hand because we didn't have electric machines
to do everything for us. When we packaged a fragile item to send in the
mail, we used wadded up old newspapers to cushion it, not Styrofoam or
plastic bubble wrap. Back then, we didn't fire up an engine and burn
gasoline just to cut the lawn. We used a push mower that ran on human
power. We exercised by working so we didn't need to go to a health club
to run on treadmills that operate on electricity.
But she's right; we didn't have the green thing back then.
We drank from a fountain when we were thirsty instead of using a cup or
a plastic bottle every time we had a drink of water. We refilled
writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and we replaced the
razor blades in a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just
because the blade got dull.
But we didn't have the green thing back then.
Back then, people took the streetcar or a bus and kids rode their bikes
to school or walked instead of turning their moms into a 24-hour taxi
service. We had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of
sockets to power a dozen appliances. And we didn't need a computerized
gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 23,000 miles out in
space in order to find the nearest burger joint.
But isn't it
sad the current generation laments how wasteful we old folks were just
because we didn't have the green thing back then?
Please forward this on to another selfish old person who needs a lesson in conservation from a smart-ass young person.
We don't like being old in the first place, so it doesn't take much to piss us off.
Top Opinion
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Koma 2012/09/16 14:33:13
I Still request the Paper Bags nowadays because they are so USEFUL indeed ..
Back in the dark Cold War days of 1984 a seed was brought to American soil. Fallen from the vine of the Green Party in Germany, planted in the dark socialist earth of the American Left, and watered with rampant anti-Americanism, the Green Committees of Correspondence took root in 1990 and adopted their first national Platform. By 1996 the Green Party was formed and the twelve years of growth had created a succulent fruit for the far-left movement: the watermelon. Green on the outside and red on the inside, the watermelon became the perfect metaphor for the Green Party with its deeply Marxist philosophy hidden underneath a thin environmentalist façade. If only the Greens had a sense of humor they might actually adopt the melon as their official symbol.
Read more at .....
http://archive.frontpagemag.c...
Back in the dark Cold War days of 1984 a seed was brought to American soil. Fallen from the vine of the Green Party in Germany, planted in the dark socialist earth of the American Left, and watered with rampant anti-Americanism, the Green Committees of Correspondence took root in 1990 and adopted their first national Platform. By 1996 the Green Party was formed and the twelve years of growth had created a succulent fruit for the far-left movement: the watermelon. Green on the outside and red on the inside, the watermelon became the perfect metaphor for the Green Party with its deeply Marxist philosophy hidden underneath a thin environmentalist façade. If only the Greens had a sense of humor they might actually adopt the melon as their official symbol.
Read more at .....
http://archive.frontpagemag.c...
Thanks for stopping by.
Obviously you and the six people that raved you are still learning critical thinking because I addressed BOTH points in my answer. You are trying to push generational warfare, claiming that YOUR generation "knew what was right." Please. Give me a break...just because there are a few snooty young people that act rude like that store clerk is no reason to be drawing these absurd lines in the sand with a poll with such arbitrary answers. Tell me...what exactly are logical young people supposed to answer a question like this with? They can't claim to be part of a generation that they're not with the first answer but they also wouldn't feel comfortable giving the obviously illogical answer that the green movement is new.
Raked leaves and grass, then placed in a mulch pile for next years garden. Mom canned most of the veggies we ate. Granny & Gramps raised the chickens, hogs and beef, and the rest of us took part in the slaughter and preservation of the meat. Smoked or frozen.
Milk was purchased in a five gallon bottle. Mom raked off the cream for butter & cheese. I hated butter or sour milk, but the biscutts were to die for.
Many people did not own a car. They walked as much as five miles to a grocery story, made their purchase and got a cab home. My dad had a pickup, '60 chevey. If anyone needed something moved they called him. His days off work were often full.
Reusing jars to store food instead of rubbermaid containers. Even when ziploc bags came around we rinsed those out. I'm starting to do that again.
The green movement is a fraud.
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Pop always tasted better back then.
I also distinctly remember being designated as the tv remote.
Thanks for the post. We werent nearly as bad as the Liberal infested schools indoctrinators would have kids believe.
Most every vegetable we ate was grown in our garden, we ate catfish often as my dad was a great fisherman and hunted a lot also.
Our grocery budget in 1968 was $20 a week for a family of five.
We made ice cream in a wooden bucket with a hand crank. Homemade jelly was the norm then also.