[BlueSkyJaunte]

I'm not even forty and I remember a lot of those things.

Mom washing diapers ad nauseum.

Walking to get groceries--especially vegetables at the nearby farm.

Watching Mom make whipped cream--with a bowl and a spatula!

Me pushing the mower in the back yard...ugh. 1/4 acre.

Shoveling the driveway instead of using a snow-blower.

Walking to school--it wasn't far enough to justify bicycling until jr. high.

Oh, and my parents didn't believe in A/C, so in the summer time we just kept the windows open until it got to be about 85 degrees in the house.

From my perspective it's really in the past 20 years that society has become so consumerist and disposable. Or perhaps my parents were throwbacks and simply did things the way Grandma and Grandpa did them.