JGalt
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When they lead a disposable lifestyle they should not be surprised to find that they are easily discarded themselves. They tend to brag on not being loyal, to work or to whatever they are living with.....Well as they age they are finding that sword cuts both ways too.
My granddad was well to do by Farmer John standards but when he passed and we were cleaning out the workshop he had coffee cans of reused/straightened nails/fence staples and as many cans of bolts/nuts.
Then again he lived thee miles off a state road and the nearest general store was 10 miles farther on. You did not waste anything and made what you could yourself.
They made their own lye soap till they died. The old lye hopper (lye made from wood stove ash) was still there a few years back.
Those of the "Greatest Generation" are awesome. I was born in 1950 but I'm a throwback who self-identifies as having lived through the Depression.
Who knows? The way that idiot Biden is fucking up this country, we might all become the next "Greatest Generation."