Ever pick through someone's weekly trash?

[two_bit_score]

"Being a dumb man, I can pretty much eat the same thing over and over, but my wife seems to like some amount of variety"

That's the difference between men and women. Always drove me crazy. If a man finds a place he likes to eat, he need look no further and could eat there the rest of his life.

I did eat out a lot. Food prices got too high and so I cut down. Now the Ontario Government has mandated their high minimum wage. I won't be eating out hardly at all now.

If I go to a new place and like what I get the first time I’ll get that same thing nearly every time after.

 

[two_bit_score]

I would never eat leftovers and didn't want to waste anything so I would eat till I bust. Then my wife thought I liked it that much so she would gradually start making more. I must have been at 95% body fat approx... That was before microwaves.

Since microwaves were invented I can deal with left overs. When grilling I make enough stuff for half a dozen meals of meat and reheat them. Maybe my taste buds are different but I can handle leftovers so the eating quantity went down. Now my wife makes a poy of whatever, counting on leftovers for a few days down the road.

Once my wife finds out I like something she never cooks it again.

 

[RobertN]

There seems to be a following for the old International Harvester(Farmall) refrigerators. They just keep going...

My Dad still has 60 year old GE fridge in his kitchen. Had to be converted from 25 cycles many moons ago.

Just the fact that the interior plastic has not cracked, back with 50s technology gives you some idea of the utter (intentional) crap they are manufacturing today.

 

[PILOON]

My favorite is re heated roast beef, sliced with gravy doused mashed potatoes and fried onions.
When we do a roast we always get bigger than needed just to enjoy the 2nds.
(with current beef prices it has been a long time)

A call me crazy but another favorite of mine is re heated spaghetti, in fact most pastas.
Seems that the flavors get thoroughly dispersed.

 

[sixdogs]

Those old refrigerators from the stone age may look cool and run forever but I owned them when I was younger and they had some issues. They weighed a ton and they were electricity hogs. I forget the numbers but bet you could but a new one with the savings over a fairly short time.

On the other hand, I saw an really nice IH one sell for $600 at a farm auction a couple years ago.


EDIT--They are also death traps for little kids and many have died over the years because of no inside latch. It was a common occurrence.

 

[CobyRupert]

Those old refrigerators from the stone age may look cool and run forever but....

On the other hand, I saw an really nice IH one sell for $600 at a farm auction a couple years ago.

I just saw one at a recycling center the other day in the scrap pile.
It had the old metal latch that locks everything in.
I suggested we give it to my wife's niece and nephew as a play toy. Maybe something they could use when playing 'hide-and-go-seek'
(Don't judge! If you had to spend another Thanksgiving with them you'd agree too!)

 

[LD48750]

Those old refrigerators from the stone age may look cool and run forever but I owned them when I was younger and they had some issues. They weighed a ton and they were electricity hogs. I forget the numbers but bet you could but a new one with the savings over a fairly short time.

On the other hand, I saw an really nice IH one sell for $600 at a farm auction a couple years ago.


EDIT--They are also death traps for little kids and many have died over the years because of no inside latch. It was a common occurrence.

Common?
In my whole life I never knew anyone or even a relative of anyone I knew that died in a refrigerator.

 

[sixdogs]

Common?
In my whole life I never knew anyone or even a relative of anyone I knew that died in a refrigerator.

It was a common occurrence. I was there.
That's the reason we have magnetic door latches today.

The Reason Fridge Doors are Magnetic Today Is Terrifying

 

[Oaktree]

Those old refrigerators from the stone age may look cool and run forever but I owned them when I was younger and they had some issues. They weighed a ton and they were electricity hogs. I forget the numbers but bet you could but a new one with the savings over a fairly short time.

EDIT--They are also death traps for little kids and many have died over the years because of no inside latch. It was a common occurrence.

Yeah, I had one of those when I bought my first house in the mid 70s (it came with the place). Electric bill probably dropped 30% when I replaced it.
Freezers in those things were pretty useless, only had enough room for a couple packages of frozen vegetables and maybe an icecube tray. Needed to be defrosted often.

Didn't realize that magnetic door latches dated back to the 50s, though I remember my parents buying one in the mid 60s that had one.

 

[Oaktree]

I guess they were Green because it was all they knew... farming was organic before there was such a word... a farmer that didn't take care of the land was not much of a farm and forest stewardship was very important...

I'm glad I had a chance to experiences time there as a kid... didn't own a phone or TV... radio was a big deal and they had electricity... it was the only utility and a labor saver for moving hay and milking...

You don't say how old you are or where you grew up, but my take on my grandparents' generation was a bit different (I'm in my mid-ish 60s so these would be people raising a family post WWI into the 1920s-30s). Certainly they were thrifty, but most of the convenience items we take for granted didn't exist then. Cooking was from scratch because that's what there was. Manure was used for fertilizer because, again, that's what there was.

Behind every old farmhouse there was generally a huge trash pile...nobody took anything to the dump (assuming there even was one), they just dumped it in the woods or in a ravine. Cans, bottles, old shoes, bedsprings, even the remainders of old autos. Was digging some post holes here once and not far below the surface was a bunch of trash that had been covered over.
Much of New England was clear-cut, either to make what passed as farmland or by logging companies. Anything and everything was dumped in rivers and streams.

No, I wouldn't call their generation "green".