RECYLING Like You’ve NEVER Seen Before

I’ve spent most of the week at my father’s house. He’s so damn lost without mom. Been cooking, cleaning, fixing, painting, and since he can’t drive at night I drive him to the rehab-center where we spend about three hours with mom trying to cheer her up. It’s been hectic, but satisfying that we can be of service.  (I have greatly enjoyed the shitfest in llpoh’s article!)

So, one day I bring home .. from dad’s house … a small trash bag to throw away.  Ms Freud asks “Why?”.  I tell her my parents do not have a garbage disposal service.  “What??”.  Yeah, that’s right.  For decades … as long as I can remember, actually … my parents have been the Masters of Recycling.

EVERYTHING get recycled …. at least 97.475%. ALL metals, glass, plastic, and paper.  There is ZERO food thrown away … peelings, pits, seeds, bones,  …. whatever, all gets buried in a compost pile.  My parents literally produce one small garbage bag the size of an office wastepaper container per month.  I still don’t fully understand it, but they do it.  They don’t even throw away water from the kitchen sink!! When the container needs to be changed, the old water is dumped in the yard to water the plants.  “Why waste good water down the sink when the flowers need it!”  I think they even recycle used toilet paper when I’m not looking.

And they re-use everything over and over.  Baggies are washed and reused for about a year. lol  Mom can make a roll of Aluminum Foil last half a year … she’ll just wash it down with a soapy sponge, dry it, fold it, and reuse it another 20 times.  They haven’t bought a storage container (glass jar, plastic tupperware, etc) since 1963 … we get all the containers we need from the food we buy.  Mom seems to like pickle jars the best cuz the glass is usually thick and that removable lid lasts forever. When my mom and dad were in better health they had a “One Mile Rule” …. generally any trip under one mile meant we left the car in the driveway and we … GASP!! …walked.  So, even into her early 50’s my mom would walk to and from the grocery (to my great embarrassment) store pulling one of these;

My parents aren’t libtards.  They are quite conservative.  They aren’t tree-hugger save-the-whales types either. They are simply incredibly good stewards of what the earth brings forth.  Everything to them is a gift and to squander it, especially by using it only once, is a Mortal Sin that will doom you to hell.  I can’t imagine what America would look like if 300 million people lived like that.  Can you? I’m no longer embarrassed. I am so proud of them.

How cool is this??!!  I can combine my recycling story with a music video!!  I know how much you love my taste in music.  This is simply amazing, dontchya think???