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Borrowed this from a friend, but it is the same words I would rant about also:
Saw this and thought how wonderful it was. Must be showing my age because I remember a lot of these. Thinking about shtf, we will go back to much of this in the future and the young ones will be lost without their comforts. I'm starting to sound like my parents!!
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 scribbling's. 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.
Quoting: whiteangel Bravo!!!!  :s27heart7: ~*Ride the Wave*~ |
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Report Copyright Violation | Re: Earthquake Thread ~ Always Updated Borrowed this from a friend, but it is the same words I would rant about also:
Saw this and thought how wonderful it was. Must be showing my age because I remember a lot of these. Thinking about shtf, we will go back to much of this in the future and the young ones will be lost without their comforts. I'm starting to sound like my parents!!
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 scribbling's. 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.
Quoting: whiteangel How True! No Air Conditioning either and you played outside year-round No cell phones but if you did something wrong your Mom knew before you even got home! and wherever you were in the neighborhood you could hear her call you from miles away and you better come running! |
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No Air Conditioning either and you played outside year-round
No cell phones but if you did something wrong your Mom knew before you even got home! and wherever you were in the neighborhood you could hear her call you from miles away and you better come running!
Quoting: AKObserver Or you got your bottom blistered!!! During the summer, we were NOT allowed to be in the house unless we were sick or it was storming. If we turned on the morning cartoons, we could watch till breakfast and then shooed out the door to go play. No fancy toys, we used our imaginations. We played baseball, football and basketball. If you lost, you lost....no crying about it. If you skinned your knee or toe, you washed it off and went back to playing. Only wounds that wouldn't stop bleeding got a band-aid. I ran around barefoot every where I went. I constantly stubbed my big toe, to the point I wondered if there would ever come a day that there wasn't a scab on my big toes and both knees. Myself and a neighbor boy could whistle very loudly. We were the older ones and our moms would have us whistle to call the younger ones in. If no one came, they were spanked. Why? Because they were too far away to hear the whistle which carried further than our mom's voices. Brown paper grocery bags were used as construction paper, fort covers, for drying leaves and flowers pressed in dictionaries (those were always the heaviest books in the house) storing popcorn we popped on the stove in a skillet with a lid and shook back and forth over the gas or electric elements. Major grocery shopping was done once a month. I grew up in Mesa, AZ so not a small town, it is part of the Phoenix Valley. Everyone did one major shopping trip a month. Only milk, produce and small things were bought the rest of the month. We didn't go hang out at malls all day, we weren't allowed to. Favorite saying was - idle hands are the devils playground. If we were left unsupervised, the adults knew we would get in trouble, even the good kids. That is just the way kids are, it isn't bad or good, just common sense. Now kids are always left alone, to do as they please. Is it any wonder that young people are on drugs, getting drunk, getting pregnant, criminals, never taking responsibility for their actions and never really growing up. They don't know HOW to become an adult. Believe it or not, it isn't an automatic thing!!!  |
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Report Copyright Violation | Re: Earthquake Thread ~ Always Updated Borrowed this from a friend, but it is the same words I would rant about also:
Saw this and thought how wonderful it was. Must be showing my age because I remember a lot of these. Thinking about shtf, we will go back to much of this in the future and the young ones will be lost without their comforts. I'm starting to sound like my parents!!
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 scribbling's. 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.
Quoting: whiteangel To know where your heart is, look where your mind goes when it wanders.
A rock in bad hands killed Abel. A rock in good hands killed Goliath. It isn't about the rock.
A true warrior fights not because he hates the one in front of him, but because he loves those behind him.
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Report Copyright Violation | Re: Earthquake Thread ~ Always Updated How True!
No Air Conditioning either and you played outside year-round
No cell phones but if you did something wrong your Mom knew before you even got home! and wherever you were in the neighborhood you could hear her call you from miles away and you better come running!
Quoting: AKObserver Or you got your bottom blistered!!! During the summer, we were NOT allowed to be in the house unless we were sick or it was storming. If we turned on the morning cartoons, we could watch till breakfast and then shooed out the door to go play. No fancy toys, we used our imaginations. We played baseball, football and basketball. If you lost, you lost....no crying about it. If you skinned your knee or toe, you washed it off and went back to playing. Only wounds that wouldn't stop bleeding got a band-aid. I ran around barefoot every where I went. I constantly stubbed my big toe, to the point I wondered if there would ever come a day that there wasn't a scab on my big toes and both knees. Myself and a neighbor boy could whistle very loudly. We were the older ones and our moms would have us whistle to call the younger ones in. If no one came, they were spanked. Why? Because they were too far away to hear the whistle which carried further than our mom's voices. Brown paper grocery bags were used as construction paper, fort covers, for drying leaves and flowers pressed in dictionaries (those were always the heaviest books in the house) storing popcorn we popped on the stove in a skillet with a lid and shook back and forth over the gas or electric elements. Major grocery shopping was done once a month. I grew up in Mesa, AZ so not a small town, it is part of the Phoenix Valley. Everyone did one major shopping trip a month. Only milk, produce and small things were bought the rest of the month. We didn't go hang out at malls all day, we weren't allowed to. Favorite saying was - idle hands are the devils playground. If we were left unsupervised, the adults knew we would get in trouble, even the good kids. That is just the way kids are, it isn't bad or good, just common sense. Now kids are always left alone, to do as they please. Is it any wonder that young people are on drugs, getting drunk, getting pregnant, criminals, never taking responsibility for their actions and never really growing up. They don't know HOW to become an adult. Believe it or not, it isn't an automatic thing!!! And once again.... Although I'm younger, I was raised this same way. : )  ~*Ride the Wave*~ |
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Love your sky pictures Simple! Thanks for sharing! Besos de Mariposa! :butterfly_kiss: |
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No Air Conditioning either and you played outside year-round
No cell phones but if you did something wrong your Mom knew before you even got home! and wherever you were in the neighborhood you could hear her call you from miles away and you better come running!
Quoting: AKObserver Or you got your bottom blistered!!! During the summer, we were NOT allowed to be in the house unless we were sick or it was storming. If we turned on the morning cartoons, we could watch till breakfast and then shooed out the door to go play. No fancy toys, we used our imaginations. We played baseball, football and basketball. If you lost, you lost....no crying about it. If you skinned your knee or toe, you washed it off and went back to playing. Only wounds that wouldn't stop bleeding got a band-aid. I ran around barefoot every where I went. I constantly stubbed my big toe, to the point I wondered if there would ever come a day that there wasn't a scab on my big toes and both knees. Myself and a neighbor boy could whistle very loudly. We were the older ones and our moms would have us whistle to call the younger ones in. If no one came, they were spanked. Why? Because they were too far away to hear the whistle which carried further than our mom's voices. Brown paper grocery bags were used as construction paper, fort covers, for drying leaves and flowers pressed in dictionaries (those were always the heaviest books in the house) storing popcorn we popped on the stove in a skillet with a lid and shook back and forth over the gas or electric elements. Major grocery shopping was done once a month. I grew up in Mesa, AZ so not a small town, it is part of the Phoenix Valley. Everyone did one major shopping trip a month. Only milk, produce and small things were bought the rest of the month. We didn't go hang out at malls all day, we weren't allowed to. Favorite saying was - idle hands are the devils playground. If we were left unsupervised, the adults knew we would get in trouble, even the good kids. That is just the way kids are, it isn't bad or good, just common sense. Now kids are always left alone, to do as they please. Is it any wonder that young people are on drugs, getting drunk, getting pregnant, criminals, never taking responsibility for their actions and never really growing up. They don't know HOW to become an adult. Believe it or not, it isn't an automatic thing!!! And once again.... Although I'm younger, I was raised this same way. : ) How old again? Lol.... |
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Report Copyright Violation | Re: Earthquake Thread ~ Always Updated Yep and you only said 'I'm bored' once and never again! Talking on the phone was a privilege we had a party line.
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Report Copyright Violation | Re: Earthquake Thread ~ Always Updated Although I'm younger, I was raised this same way. : ) How old again? Lol.... 32 Good for your parents. You are a better person because of how you were raised. |
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Although I'm younger, I was raised this same way. : ) How old again? Lol.... 32 Good for your parents. You are a better person because of how you were raised. Thank you. : ) I come from good people. <3  ~*Ride the Wave*~ |
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Report Copyright Violation | Re: Earthquake Thread ~ Always Updated Borrowed this from a friend, but it is the same words I would rant about also:
Saw this and thought how wonderful it was. Must be showing my age because I remember a lot of these. Thinking about shtf, we will go back to much of this in the future and the young ones will be lost without their comforts. I'm starting to sound like my parents!!
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 scribbling's. 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.
Quoting: whiteangel So true!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SICSEMPERTYRANIS Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum Vi veri universum vivus vici "There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact". Arthur Conan Doyle "Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth". Arthur Conan Doyle MOLON LABE [ link to www.usavsus.info] |
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Quoting: AKObserver Oh my goodness. You are so right. Never, ever, ever say you were bored. The house and or yard would then be cleaned by YOU Yep, I'm bored..... Go mow the lawn!! SICSEMPERTYRANIS Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum Vi veri universum vivus vici "There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact". Arthur Conan Doyle "Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth". Arthur Conan Doyle MOLON LABE [ link to www.usavsus.info] |
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Report Copyright Violation | Re: Earthquake Thread ~ Always Updated Magnitude 4.2 Region POLAND Date time 2014-10-26 03:53:11.7 UTC Location 51.47 N ; 16.03 E Depth 0 km [ link to m.emsc.eu] ~*Ride the Wave*~ |
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Report Copyright Violation | Re: Earthquake Thread ~ Always Updated Magnitude 4.0 Region IRAN-IRAQ BORDER REGION Date time 2014-10-26 03:54:08.7 UTC Location 32.54 N ; 47.98 E Depth 8 km [ link to m.emsc.eu] ~*Ride the Wave*~ |
