I’ve noticed that the quality of goods is not what it used to be to be. Our society views consumerism as recreation. And we have an economy that has become dependent on throw away goods….furniture, clothes, etc. Quality goods are beyond reach for most young families….and as a result kids now grow up with the mindset of buy cheap and just replace when it wears out. Sad.

I laugh at some of the things like recycling or organic….in my mind, my parents did that as a way of life….old school. You canned your vegetables from the garden in the same canning jars year after year. And as the third girl in the family…I lived in hand me downs. Food scraps went over the “bankin” to decompose and return naturally to the earth. But to talk to somebody sold on saving the earth these days…..well, they think they have all the answers, no awareness that many of the answers pre-existed but we are too soft to employ them.