Forum Loss Today [26th July].
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Affirmative, plus an oblique tip of the hat to the somewhat recently deceased Meatloaf.
or one of those i taking my ball and going home threads
That's what I thought too.
Me three! Glad that wasn't the case.
As to the other, I just figured something about some other sites I was on early this morning triggered some defense mechanism on this site.
(Yes, totally kidding - although I guess Jeeps, hunting dogs and firearms are pretty much naked, lol).
I always love those posts. Because you always think wow this person really thinks people care a lot more about them then they do. And the thought I usually have if I choose to read them is, yeah dude I already knew you were a jerk.
They manage to garner several Tombstone gifs. "Well, bye"
When I was little we used to live next door to an old lady - museum vintage antiquity kind of old - and she used to hang used tea bags on her washing line so she could reuse them! The tea must’ve been so weak it could barely have crawled up the spout of the tea pot to get in the cup.
I worked with a guy who swore you could get three cups of coffee out of a Kurieg cup. haha
You absolutley cannot.
You should have seen Mrs Watkins bolt outside to get the tea bags in if there was even the slightest hint that it might rain! ?
To say that she was ‘frugal’ would be a massive understatement. They don’t make them like her anymore, that is for sure.
I always get a kick out of the WW2 era cartoons promoting conservation to support the war effort.
The one that always makes me laugh shows Daffy Duck getting his coffee bean (singular) out of the cupboard with a string tied to it. He drags the bean through the cup of hot water and then hangs it back in the cabinet.
In leaner times, I have used a tea bag a 2nd time from necessity. It sucks and I am currently blessed to go through many tea bags a day with no thought of conservation.
When I was rather young I recall going to see my one grandmother who was in her 90s at the time hanging up paper towels to dry on the clothing line. I guess that is what raising 8 kids alone during the depression will do to you.
I guess that the war generation got so used to deprivation that they continued with those behaviours long after the necessity had passed.
Gran insisted on stocking the pantry with cans of stew and dried eggs, as if the bombs would start falling again any second.
Bully Beef and dried packets of soup. Enough home made jam and marmalade to give an entire infantry division diabetes. My Mother pickled and preserved everything that moved. Her favorite comment was 'When I was your age there was a war on and we didn't have ------' insert item/food group. I genuinely think she enjoyed the War and all the deprivation and continued with the same patten until the day she died.