I think of my mom whenever I peel potatoes. She always yelled if I took too much flesh off with the skin because her dad would beat her for wasting it.
My folks have been gone for decades and I still hear them saying things like that. Turn the light off when you leave the room. Stop wasting water in the shower.
Back in the day, people were more cautious with their money
Living through the depression does something to people!
My father was the tightwad in fact he was so tight and cheap. He would not give me the fee to learn to drive at school and I had to drop out of the class…..talk about embarrassing.
Looking at my last few water bills, I found that only about 3 percent of the bill has anything to do with the amount of water I use. The rest are fixed base charges and taxes that I’ll get charged no matter what. With the knowledge that even using no water at all would only save me 3 percent at best, I’m never going to worry about how much water I use ever again. If the conservationists want me to be concerned, they’re going to have to restructure the billing system to better and more fairly incentivize me.
Lucy Rudy 6 days ago
I think of my mom whenever I peel potatoes. She always yelled if I took too much flesh off with the skin because her dad would beat her for wasting it.
Tra1nman2 Premium Member 6 days ago
My folks have been gone for decades and I still hear them saying things like that. Turn the light off when you leave the room. Stop wasting water in the shower.
Jml58 6 days ago
I am an ecologly disaster If I take a bath, I pollute the water. If I don´t, pollute the air.
klbdds 5 days ago
My dad; a retired chief petty officer taught me the “Navy shower”.
Frank Burns Eats Worms 5 days ago
" Then he’d put me in a full Nelson. "
mistercatworks 5 days ago
Whenever I buy a bottle of water at a remote gas station, I hear my father’s voice in my head saying, “You paid a dollar for WHAT?”
wildlandwaters 5 days ago
thank goodness Glenn drew ‘im where he did so we couldn’t see any lower… whew… dodged a bullet, there!
MY DOG IS MY CO PILOT 5 days ago
My parents are both dead and I can still “hear” them in my head to turn the music down or the lights off.
cuzinron47 5 days ago
And your Mom saying “You never call, you never visit……thank you”.
Strawberry King 5 days ago
“You think money grows on trees?!”
Zebrastripes 5 days ago
Back in the day, people were more cautious with their money
Living through the depression does something to people!
My father was the tightwad in fact he was so tight and cheap. He would not give me the fee to learn to drive at school and I had to drop out of the class…..talk about embarrassing.
EMGULS79 5 days ago
Looking at my last few water bills, I found that only about 3 percent of the bill has anything to do with the amount of water I use. The rest are fixed base charges and taxes that I’ll get charged no matter what. With the knowledge that even using no water at all would only save me 3 percent at best, I’m never going to worry about how much water I use ever again. If the conservationists want me to be concerned, they’re going to have to restructure the billing system to better and more fairly incentivize me.