[sammyg2]

I remember when mom washed and dried aluminum foil, she'd get several uses out of it.
And they'd never throw out the rubber band from the newspaper, that was wasteful.

One time the clothes dryer died and was beyond all repair attempts, so dad got an old dryer from the scrap yard for $2 and got it working, but the drum rollers on one side were shot and he didn't have replacements.
So he built a wooden stand so the dryer was angled, with one side higher than the other by about a foot!
That would use gravity to keep tension on the belt and keep it from slipping, mostly. But it always seemed to smell a little like burning rubber.

About 10 years ago I was at his house and he was repairing an old string of Christmas lights.
He got it working after about an hour and I mentioned that he could have driven to the store and bought $5 worth of lights faster than it took to fix those old ones.
He said "yep, but now I have working lights AND $5".

The other day i told my wife that the shower door in the master bath is only a year old and lots nicer than the one in the front bath, so when we redo the master shower I can take that door and replace the old one with it and save some money.
She said I sound like my dad, and I thought that was a nice compliment.