Remember when

Checking out at the store, the young cashier suggested that the much older lady bring her own grocery bags because plastic bags are not good for the environment.
The woman apologized to the young girl 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."

The older lady said that she was right. Our generation didn't have the "green thing" in its day.
The older lady explained:
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, sterilized, and refilled, so it could use the same bottles repeatedly. So they really were recycled.
Grocery stores bagged our groceries in brown paper bags that we reused for numerous things. Besides household garbage bags, the most memorable was the use of brown paper bags as book covers for our school books. This ensured that our scribblings did not deface public property (the books provided for our use by the school). Then we were able to personalize our books on the brown paper bags.
We walked up the 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.
Back then, we washed the baby's diapers because we didn't have the throwaway kind.
We dried clothes on a line, not in a machine burning 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.
Back then, we had one TV, or radio, in the house -- not a TV in every room.
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.
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 operated on electricity.
We drank from a fountain when we were thirsty instead of using a cup or a plastic bottle every time we drank water.
We refilled writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and we replaced the razor blade in a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got dull.
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 in the family's $45,000 SUV or van, which cost what a whole house did before the "green thing."
We didn't need a computerized gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 23,000 miles out in space 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?

 

Well said, baby boomers got a lot of good things accomplished, that we take for granted today.

 

Remember when these were on every table in the bar, it’s good there gone.

 

My parents bought their first house in Miami Shores FL. for $25k. Mom looked it up and it's worth over $900k now. I do remember paper bag book covers and everything you stated.
And don't forget the famous:
Get out of my house and don't come back until the street light comes on.

 

Remember paper drives in Scouts

 

We were watching a show the other night and I said to the wife look at that big ol ashtray on the table. .

 

The last sentence hits hard, as well as a favorite 4 word quote of mine..

"Waste not, want not"

 

Remember 2023

 

NO

 

I'd rather it be 2020 again. 23 was a terrible year in my house and family

 

23 was pretty bad here too

 

I’m trying not to

 

Remember not explaining why people are expected to do a job they are paid to do….

 

Remember these were in the bags of Fritos in the 70’s

 

One of the very first casualties of Political Correctness (before it was even called that!)

 

Nothing better than an eraser up your bum
Very fitting considering the nationality and the location of the company. Truth Hurts

 

Yes!! I had a couple of those. They were not a great eraser but cool to look at. Fritos would be totally “cancelled” these days.

 

No they wouldn’t, just can’t do and say racist things. About Fu&$”@! Time

 

If asked your preference, paper or plastic?
Respond with “meh either one, I’m bi-SACKsual.” Ahem.