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Mondexmomma's avatar

Clif you are sooo right. I am part of the baby boomers. My grandfather made room additions with scrap wood from the boxes that copper and brass came in as he worked at Revere Copper and Brass. Most wouldn't recognize this name but they made quality pots and pans......which I still have. We would pull nails from these shipping boxes and save the wooden panels and even saves some of the nails. Much of the wood we used to put on a 24 by 24 foot addition on a house came from those " scrapes" my dad and grandfather built the addition as well.We didn't have a contractor or any other kind of specialist. In those days you learned the aspects of building, gardening, and fixing your own cars. We didn't have cell phones, tablets, computers, Xbox or play station to sit behind and grow fat and unhealthy. We went outside to play when my dad whistled or flicked the front porch light on and off you knew you better get your butt home. It was time to go inside. A dishwasher was all five of us kids. My grandmother was a great seamstress. She taught me how to sew. My grandfather had a hammer in my hand when I was 7. I have changed my own oil in my car and to this day like making and doing things on my own. Everything you buy from China is the most inferior products I have ever seen. We live in a throw away society. Maybe now we will FIX things as opposed to toss away and buy new. Our land fills are full of crap which could be fixed and recycled. Time these youngsters know what it was like to do and build things themselves. Maybe if more people fabricated and fixed things a sense of appreciation and loyalty will grow within this country.

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Phooey Generis's avatar

Free at last . . . Thank you for taking the time and making the effort to share your wisdom, especially with all you've got going on in the material world. You are loved and appreciated.

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