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I save ketchup packets in my car. You never know when you're going to run out of ketchup at home and those will come to the rescue. To clarify, I don't hoard them there, just save the un-used ones we get from the occasional drive thru.
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Originally Posted by barny
(Post 5636609)
I think that is hilarious! Don't you? What have these women been doing? ha,ha. Lena, I'm 83 and I tell my husband if we had a big recession, we could get by on beans and cornbread.
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And a rubber spatula works wonders getting out the thicker stuff, like mayo.
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Maybe it's a generational thing. My Mom grew up in the Depression....enough said. When I was younger, her thriftiness drove me crazy. I'm now 59 and the apple didn't fall far from the tree. Hubby and I worked hard for our $$ and I do all I can to use up and not be wasteful of food. I also cook most everything from scratch. For every decade of folks born thereafter, the outlook changes. So many people don't know the slightest of cooking techniques or the ecomomics of cooking, sad to say. But, they can make dinner reservations perfectly.
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I have done this always. But when my daughter did it and a friend saw her and asked her why ,to get the last little bit out ,, the friend said she was neither that cheap or that desparate. Huh???
Some days I am glad I was raised by my grandparents who were around during the depression. It kills me to see how much stuff my brother and his step daughter waste every day. Reuse containers and jars. NOT thats junk go out and buy rubbermaid, food oh its ok if it goes bad there is always more in the store. ACK Drives me crazier than I already am. I splurge and buy myself hand made soap but I save every last little piece in an old sugar bowl in my bathroom. I am going to melt it all together when I get enough and add a little lavender and I have my own bar of soap again .. Or I have added a lot of water and made liquid soap with it. :) |
That is a wonderful story. I'm not sure how you didn't start laughing, but you were likely too shocked to giggle. I guess we have really have changed the world into non-common-sense creatures. Certainly non-frugal creatures.
Thank you for sharing. I was howling with laughter and it's a good thing you didn't attend with me because I would have been laughing like crazy. amh |
I'm laughing out loud at your response to your hubby. Bet he closed his lips til dinner time.
That hot tip sounds like it might have come from the comedian. Ha ha ha |
My parents were both born in 1914, I was born in 1945 and were pretty poor. I grew up knowing how to stretch money and have alot of frugal habits. I could get by on very little. My kids were raised that way too, even though we didn't have to live that close, I saw no reason to live differently. They see no reason to scrimp on much if it isn't needed.
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You would be suprised. When I did that my husband's sister-in-law looked at me like I had gone crazy. The look on her face was something to see. That's OK, I'm a better cook!
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Originally Posted by lenabeena
(Post 5636585)
my friends and i , all in our 60's and 70's recently attended a cooking school given by a popular recipe magazine. I will not repeat all the snide remarks from our husbands about learning to cook at our ages!!! We said if they wanted to eat again they should keep quiet!!! Anyway we went to the event and enjoyed tasty samples, received a few free nick-nacks, laughed at the comedian, and won a years subscription to the magazine. We watched the cooking demonstrations and whispered among ourselves at what we could substitute for their very expensive ingredients. Then came the 'clincher". The speaker promised to give us the "best tip ever" to use when cooking. We waited through the whole long selling bit and finally he said to get ready to write it down. Pencils were poised, breaths held, eyes glued on him and here it came................."when you have a bit of sauce left in a jar, add a few spoons of water, shake it and you will get more out." huh? That was the best tip ever? My friends and i looked around at all the hundreds of women, many our age, who were frantically writing and nodding to each other and saying what a great idea. We were stunned! Doesn't everyone know this?
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