As my grandfather says,
"If you cant make it or fix it, you dont need it.."

Love this post!
Some things are coming full circle, for instance cloth diapers, which I use on my baby. And I bought them from work at home moms, and want to make some myself.
If I think I can make.something from scratch(food) I at the very least try.
I have started gardening, and store bought tomatoes taste.. Well tasteless now, lol
My gma cans food and makes preserves, this I want to learn
I walk when ever possible, which I could do more often with 4 little kids if there werent huge hunks of mestal flying down the roads!
Theres a few more, but im rambling. basicly, im trying to live a little more simple

Yeah, I got this from my grandma. And I'm very well aware that there are many things that were more "green" back then than now. But, in all reality, I really do get sick of this crap.

Young folks, life was a lot harder before the Internet. Older folks, these kids have to constantly worry about gang violence and rampant drug use these days.

Life sucks, in some form or fashion, for everybody; welcome to the world.

thats because in the older days they were much cleaner and using the natural enviroment to do stuff.

Now its trippled the population, less respect and less responsibility= more trash

like wells for water and the sun to dry clothes and you know pretty much everything by hand and not as hard as you think unless your lazy. its messed up how the rivers are populted and full of trash.

Hey! and dont blame the government. People did this

Thanks for posting this. It was very insightful.

S+F

Thanks, this post brought on a lot of memories for me. I was born in 1953, and I can remember milk and soda coming in returnable bottles, and I remember my mom making my clothes on a treadle Singer for school, we kids didn't get shoes in the Summer, we went every where barefooted. Shoe were for school. We grew our own veggies in a big garden, my parents would buy 100 chicks every Spring, we would raise them, enjoy the eggs, then butcher and can the meat for Winter. I remember when the drain for the Kitchen sink ran out into the garden, and pumping 20 gallons of water every morning before school, and after supper. I remember the whole family bating in one tub of water, and I remember waking up with a small snowdrift across my bedclothes. I remember walking to school, two rooms down, two up, first and second on the first floor, third and fourth upstairs. Kids would bring lumps of coal for the one school stove. I remember when you could fill up an Oldsmobile for $8, and when we threw trash on a pile on the back yard. Grocery bags were paper, they would rot away in a few days, everything else came in bottles, either returnable or not, these would break and go back to their original state. Cans would rust away. You could smoke everywhere, I remember shopping in the A&P and smoking a cigarette while I was shopping, you could spank your kid and banish them to the car in the parking lot of they were bad in the store, and I actually remember one woman who had one of those dog leashes on her son, and would tie him to the parking meter as she shopped. Try that today. And finally, my kids were not too good to go through the windshield with Mom and Dad, and the speed limit was 65 everywhere. And cars got much better mileage on those days, I had a 6 cylinder Plymouth Valiant that got 62 miles per gallon. Better days.

Thank you for this contribution to battling the myths being spread to support the next issue they want to fracture and divide us on...age.

Oh...whine whine...you old people are bad because you're the ones who caused all the problems because you were so wasteful and didn't care about the planet and it's going to take money to support you all blah blah. The ever increasing volume of this propaganda has been alarming. We old people paid a lot of money into this country and built this country and it was robbed from us as well as it was from you, so back the hell off and don't let them divide, segregate, and separate us even further.

The best, most honest and accurate post I've ever spotted on ATS.

Congratulations. Absolutely brilliant.

That is a awesome post OP. It is so true, it seems like the older generation was green without even knowing it. the only way we are greener is we dont pollute as much as they did with all their coal burning factories. but good post S&F for you my friend