Good Read.....So True

[Maggie]

VERY GOOD!

In the line at the supermarket, the cashier told the older woman that she
should bring her own grocery bag because plastic bags weren't good for the enviroment.
The woman apologized to her and explained, "We didn't have the
green thing back in my day."
The clerk responded, "That's our problem today. The former generation did
not care enough to save our environment."
She was right, that generation didn't have the green thing in its day.
Back then, they returned their milk bottles, soft drink bottles and beer
bottles to the shop. The shop sent them back to the factory to be washed and
sterilized and refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and over.
They were recycled.
But they didn't have the green thing back in that customer's day.
In her day, they walked up stairs, because they didn't have an escalator in
every store and office building. They walked to the grocery store and didn't
climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time they had to go two blocks.
But she was right. They didn't have the green thing in her day.
Back then, they washed the baby's nappies because they didn't have the
throw-away kind. They dried clothes on a line, not in a 220 volt energy
gobbling machine - wind and solar power really did dry the clothes. Kids got
hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing.
But that old lady is right; they didn't have the green thing back in her day
Back then, they 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, not a screen the
size of a cricket pitch. In the kitchen, they blended and stirred by hand
because they didn't have electric machines to do everything for you.
When they packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, they used a wadded up old
newspaper to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap. They didn't
have air conditioning or electric stoves with self cleaning ovens.
They didn't have battery operated toys, computers, or telephones.
Back then, they didn't fire up an engine and burn fuel just to cut the lawn
They used a push mower that ran on human power. They used hand operated
clippers to trim the shrubs. They exercised by working so they didn't need
to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity.
But she's right; they didn't have the green thing back then.
They drank from a glass filled from the tap when they were thirsty

instead of using a plastic bottle every time they had a drink of water.
They refilled their writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and
they replaced the razor blades in a razor instead of throwing away the whole
razor just because the blade got dull.
But they didn't have the green thing back then.
Back then, people walked or took the bus and kids rode their bikes to school
or rode the school bus instead of turning their mums into a 24-hour taxi
service. They had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of
sockets to power a dozen appliances. And they didn't need a computerized
gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 2,000 miles out in space
in order to find the nearest pizza joint.
But isn't it sad the current generation laments how wasteful the old folk
were just because they didn't have the green thing back then?

 

[Nancy Bragg]

a story well told , and very true .

 

[RonsGarden]

I remember some of the no green things we had to do!
Nice to remember some of those good ole days!

 

[Kya D]

I just asked my Hubby to build me a food dehydrator (the outside type) and to please put me up a wind and solar clothes dryer..(clothesline) He is still deciding when to get them done.
Ron I must be old cuz I remember ALL of the green things list above. We had em all.
We also had party lines, Diy dehydrators, grew our own food, both veggies and meat.
And pretty much still do.

 

[RonsGarden]

Dawn, I grew up in the big city!

 

[Maggie]

I grew up in the country. I remember all those things to. We grew our own vegetables and canned them.We didn't have freezers. I remember walking behind daddy as he plowed and picking up potatoes to store for the winter along with onions. We had apple, pear, peach, pecan and walnuts trees. Picked wild blackberries, gather the grapes. We raised chickens for eggs and sunday dinners, raised and kill our own hogs, made our own sausage, smoked the sides of bacon, hams, shoulders, sausages, salted down some and canned some. Drew water from the well for everything from drinking, cooking, washing clothes and dishes, to bathing in wash tubs. We milked our own cows and made butter and buttermilk. I remember momma pouring enough cream off the milk for daddys coffee. Life was hard but we didn't know it because thats the way people lived. I don't remember going to the Dr. but 3 times growing up. We were all healthy and happy.
I could go on and on but I'm sure your bored with my growing-up years.

 

[Kya D]

Oh Ron I had no clue how much you missed when you were younger.
Growing up in the country as poor folk we did alot of things only cuz we had no money.

 

[Crabbergirl]

AMEN!
Imiss the way it was back then.

 

[Dor]

I remember growing up in the country but I still try to use a lot of those ways.

 

[Randy]

Those ways are good ways, Miss Dorothy, and usually healthier.

 

[Wombat]

Yep, I recall a lot of those things too, I grew up in the outer suburbs and we only had one car which my Dad took to work so we walked just about everywhere as there was no public transport available. I was a bit thinner back then too LOL

 

[Randy]

Compared to what we do now it sure makes you wonder. There are four adults living here, exepmting the grandkids. We have four vehicles. It's very convenient, but admittedly wasteful.

 

[Wombat]

Yep I agree there Randy. Nine times out of ten when we're quite capable of walking to a place we tend to just jump in the car as it's, as you said, quick and convenient. There's a house just down the street and they have 5 kids and you guessed it, 7 cars are parked there lol

 

[rveggie]

Better late than never...