What a lovely thread. My mother was only three when the war started, but all of the thrifty ways stay with her still and she and my grandmother passed them on to us. I am now 57 but I still look at sweaters to see if they can be unravelled, fabrics become quilts, I keep chickens and not a thing is wasted. Everything, but everything is composted, recycled, re-used. I look at the consumer society and wonder how it happened. My children were brought up to eat everything they took, we have no waste food in my house so the chickens would starve if they had to live off our scraps. I grow most of our vegetables. We are not poor but we have had lean times due to redundancies, and I have managed to keep us going, food-wise, throughout those tough months purely because of what I was taught. I know that I can make nettle soup and use groundelder instead of spinach. That elderberry cordial stops cold in their tracks. That garlic spray is an excellent antiseptic. It's been hard work sometimes, freezing and bottling and drying, but I have been so grateful for the skills passed on to me.
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