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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera
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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Well ain't you livin high on the hog with your being wasteful and all.
I don't see nothin wrong wih keeping and reusing AL foil, pie pans etc , bread wrappers, egg cartons, Mayo jars, toilette paper rollers and the such. They mighen come in handy someday.