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<blockquote data-quote="donna723" data-source="post: 533226" data-attributes="member: 1883"><p>Keista, that may have been part of what it was with my grandmother. She was born in 1884, a little Iowa farm girl who met my grandfather when her family traveled to St. Louis to go to the 1904 Worlds Fair! Those people didn't throw anything away - they used and reused and passed things down and made do. Things weren't "disposable" like they are now. Then they raised six children through the Depression and two World Wars. Even when they were very elderly, my grandfather still raised chickens in their back yard (in suburban St. Louis!) and had a HUGE garden! My grandmother canned it all and there were hundreds and hundreds of mason jars full of food lining the shelves in their basement. They very rarely even had to go to the grocery store! So I guess to her it made perfect sense to store away her nice new things for "later" and make do with what she already had and to pass along the extras to her family. Every time we went to their house we would come home with big bags of homegrown tomatoes and fresh corn on the cob!</p><p></p><p>People today are so different from just a few generations ago, and I'm not so sure that the change has been for the better!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donna723, post: 533226, member: 1883"] Keista, that may have been part of what it was with my grandmother. She was born in 1884, a little Iowa farm girl who met my grandfather when her family traveled to St. Louis to go to the 1904 Worlds Fair! Those people didn't throw anything away - they used and reused and passed things down and made do. Things weren't "disposable" like they are now. Then they raised six children through the Depression and two World Wars. Even when they were very elderly, my grandfather still raised chickens in their back yard (in suburban St. Louis!) and had a HUGE garden! My grandmother canned it all and there were hundreds and hundreds of mason jars full of food lining the shelves in their basement. They very rarely even had to go to the grocery store! So I guess to her it made perfect sense to store away her nice new things for "later" and make do with what she already had and to pass along the extras to her family. Every time we went to their house we would come home with big bags of homegrown tomatoes and fresh corn on the cob! People today are so different from just a few generations ago, and I'm not so sure that the change has been for the better! [/QUOTE]
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