The Environment...

And we washed plastic bag from store to be used over and over, and we washed our clothes by hands. Thank you, Warren.

Sounds a little whiny to me.

Why did you delete all our comments ?
Katja

Beautiful – I saved it !
And we brought the nylons to get the runs repaired; we put cold wet washcloths to our children’s calves to bring down a fever, instead of giving them horrible pills; we traded potato peels for kindling wood (at least in Germany after the war) instead of buying mashed potatoes out of a box; we gave food leftovers to farmers to feed the pigs with instead of giving them hormones and GMO’s; we came together as groups on many occasions, singing instead of havin i-Pod buds in our ears and let others sing to us; we were playing games in the park , bonding as friends, insteadof playing stupid, anonymous games on the internet; we were TALKING and TOUCHING instead of texting and sexting .
Oh, the good old NON-GREEN days !
Katja

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And we didn’t use styrofoam boxes for take out or take home because most people at at home, we grew most of our own vegetables, hung our laundry out to dry, washed & dried our dishes in a sink, picked up trash dumped on the street by others, rang a bell to have kids come home for a meal rather than all the cell phones, Ipads, Iphones. Held a book in our hands instead of a Kindle.



We were green before Green became a fad of the environmentalists & the Gore followers on global warming. And we who grew up in the 50’s & 60’s and lived the GREEN Concept know we can trust & believe what Al Gore says because he invented the internet he told us so.

There’s a tiny Asian market a few blocks from my house. When I go shopping there, I always bring my own canvas bag with me, but the clerk refuses to use it and always gives me an extra plastic bag. She told me that back in (Vietnam?), they didn’t have the luxury of plastic bags, and everyone brought their own reusable one. Now that she’s here in the U.S.A., she’s happy to not have to worry about bringing along her own bag, she likes the convenience of getting one from the store. Similarly, when I visited my relatives in Latvia, I made some comment about farmers not using chemicals on their land. "No," my cousin replied, "we can’t afford them."

Yes, the above went around the world and originated in the UK. We did the same things here in Amercia and more so during WW2 because we had to live frugaly.WHY? Because we needed to feed our men and woman in the Armed Services.
We had food stamps and gasoline was rationed, we had Victory gardens and every plot of open land in New York City was a vegetable garden. As childern we were told to look for aluminium, most came off thrown away cigarette packages. The aluminum was collected and used for the war effort. Women didn’t have nylon stocking because the Airforce needed it to make parachutes.

All people came together in UNITY to serve the war effort.Spam was invented and lard with a vial of orange coloring was mixed together to take the place of butter.
We didn’t have TV, we listened to the radio, as a family, the childern played games out doors with each other, jacks, potsy, ring a’ lario, jump rope , stoop ball and in the hot NYC summer, run under the water from the fire hydrants.
We didn’t have fast food and their were very few obese people.
The NOW generation doesn’t know what to do with themselves if they don’t have something to look at, TV, IPods, Cell phnes etc.
Heck, we were doing GREEN , long before these whipper snappers came up with the idea about " the green thing".
There wouldn’t be any " green thing" today, if we didn’t do all the above!
Another thing, childern didn’t ask for something they saw on TV or because their friend had it, they EARNED it by getting good grades and maybe at Christmas time it would be under the tree.