There is much in what you say I am the product of two who were born just before the first world war and then went through the second with a young family getting bigger all the time My mother never threw a thing out, empty match boxes, washing liquid bottles, brown paper and string etc etc, even spent matches At Christmas if the present was wrapped at all the paper was opened very carefully and flattened out and folded and put away for the next year in a cracker box These lessons are hard to forget Unlike todays throw away society, they buy something, use it and then discard it Its hard to watch as it goes against the grain <g> Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) On 18/09/2013 15:48, [email protected] wrote: > could be, many of us are Adult Children of the Depression & have clung to > things FOREVER! A lesson learnt very early in life. > > Ruth