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My grandmother-in-law raised 5 kids several miles outside of Ames, OK. No running water, no electricity, through the dust bowl years, and into the early 1980s. They did not get electricity until the 1950s.
She had to feed farm hands, and a flock of hungry kids. She saved every scrap of anything that could be eaten. Old bacon geese, chicken fat, and grease for hamburger meat. She would make the next few meals with those scraps. She lived to age 98. She gave up on living because she had outlived all her friends, and several kids killed in accidents.
My grandparents all saved all that same stuff, and even re-used aluminum foil and bread wrappers.
No, we don't keep it now, or any grease or old chicken fat. Food is too cheap in this country to bother.
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Glen
49 Year member of the Porsche Club of America
1985 911 Carrera; 2017 Macan
1986 El Camino with Fuel Injected 350 Crate Engine
My Motto: I will never be too old to have a happy childhood!
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