True Green way before it was "fashionable"!

This isn’t about food but I think it’s worth posting.  June 17, 2012

Old-Time common sense that worked! Worked before “green” and would work now!
An email I got. I don’t know who wrote it but it does point out some things for the younger generation and those harping about the “green” living to think about.

» Checking out at the store, the young cashier suggested to the older
» woman, that she should bring her own grocery bags because plastic bags
» weren’t good for the environment.
» The woman apologized and explained, “We didn’t have this green thing back
» in my earlier days.”
» The young clerk responded, “That’s our problem today.
»
» Your generation did not care enough to save our environment for future
» generations.”
» She was right — our generation didn’t have the green thing in its day.
» Back then, we returned milk bottles, soda bottles and beer bottles to the
» store.
» The store sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilized and
» refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and over.
» So they really were recycled.
» But we didn’t have the green thing back in our day.
»
» Grocery stores bagged our groceries in brown paper bags, that we reused
» for numerous things,
» most memorable besides household garbage bags, was the use of brown
» paper bags as book covers for our schoolbooks.
» This was to ensure that public property, (the books provided for our use
» by the school) was not defaced by our scribblings.
» Then we were able to personalize our books on the brown paper bags.
» But too bad we didn’t do the green thing back then.
»
» We walked up stairs, because we didn’t have an escalator in every store
» and office building.
» We walked to the grocery store and didn’t climb into a 300-horsepower
» machine every time we had to go two blocks.
» But she was right. We didn’t have the green thing in our day.
»
» Back then, we washed the baby’s diapers because we didn’t have the
» throwaway kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy-gobbling
» machine burning up 220 volts — wind and solar power really did dry
» our clothes back in our early days.
» Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters,
» not always brand-new clothing.
» But that young lady is right; we didn’t have the green thing back in our
» day.
»
» Back then, we had one TV, or radio, in the house — not a TV in every
» room.
» And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief (remember
» them?), not a screen the size of the state of Montana.
» In the kitchen, we blended and stirred by hand because we didn’t have
» electric machines to do everything for us.
» When we packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, we used wadded up
» old newspapers to cushion it,
» not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap.
» Back then, we didn’t fire up an engine and burn gasoline just to cut the
» lawn.
» We used a push mower that ran on human power.
» We exercised by working so we didn’t need to go to a health club to run
» on treadmills that operate on electricity.
» But she’s right; we didn’t have the green thing back then.
»
» We drank from a fountain when we were thirsty instead of using a cup or a
» plastic bottle every time we had a drink of water.
» We refilled writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen,
» and we replaced the razor blades in a razor instead of throwing away the
» whole razor just because the blade got dull.
» But we didn’t have the green thing back then.
»
» Back then, people took the streetcar or a bus and kids rode their bikes
» to school or walked instead of turning their moms into a 24-hour
» taxi service.
» We had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to
» power a dozen appliances.
» And we didn’t need a computerized gadget to receive a signal beamed from
» satellites
» 23,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest burger joint.
» But isn’t it sad that the current generation laments how wasteful we old
» folks were just because we didn’t have the green thing back then?
» Please forward this on to another selfish old person who needs a lesson
» in conservation from a smart ass young person…
» We don’t like being old in the first place, so it doesn’t take much to
» tick us off.

*I got this in email. I did not write this.  I don’t know who did.