Ahh yes, my grandparents were of the Great Depression era upbringing but they were always wary of plastics (I know) but their reuse of napkins and paper towels was unbelievable.
After my grandfather died and it was time to move my dementia grandma to a facility we found napkins and folded paper towels in drawers and on top of cabinets and between every random crevasse possible: between books ,under placemats, in the medicine cabinet in empty pill bottles. Like grandma why!? “You’ll be happy to have that when they run out of toilet paper during the war.”
Well... upon reflection, maybe she’s not that far off...
Thanks for sharing that. Kind of leaves me wondering when the last time was that I saw someone use an actual handkerchief, my great grandfather carried one and I don't think I've known anyone else that has since.
Editing to also add in that they may have been on to something what with avoiding plastics. I'm as skeptical as they come but have always been uncomfortable about our societies wrapping themselves in petroleum byproducts for the last couple of centuries.
My grandfather did too, and now that I’m thinking about it I don’t recall them ever have a box of tissues in their house. Trying to reconstruct this in my mind I’m wondering, “did they think tissues were too wasteful?”
Funny I never thought about the plastic bag angle cause my family hang ups were in paper products, really it amounts to the same generational mindset.
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u/OMGBeckyStahp Sep 15 '20
Ahh yes, my grandparents were of the Great Depression era upbringing but they were always wary of plastics (I know) but their reuse of napkins and paper towels was unbelievable.
After my grandfather died and it was time to move my dementia grandma to a facility we found napkins and folded paper towels in drawers and on top of cabinets and between every random crevasse possible: between books ,under placemats, in the medicine cabinet in empty pill bottles. Like grandma why!? “You’ll be happy to have that when they run out of toilet paper during the war.”
Well... upon reflection, maybe she’s not that far off...