Frugality and the Modern World
While searching for information about saving money, I ran into this fun to read site outlining some of the creative things people did during WWII. https://learnincolor.com/frugality-how-to-from-the-greatest-generation.html Samantha outlines 10 areas on"how to use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without." Save Paper With my parents and grandparents being part of the Greatest Generation , this peaked my interest. I remember fondly some of the things my grandparents di that at the time in the 60's, I thought very old fashioned. For one thing, on my grandfather's roll top desk, he kept a stack of envelopes he used as note paper. He would carefully open all mail with a sharp letter opener, turn the written side over and stack it with the back side and viola -- a scratch pad. I do this now because of the huge amount of waste paper in my life. I noticed one day that most of my trash was paper -- used computer paper, envelopes and the like. Yeah, it could go into the