Not to be thrown away
From an early age, someone around me always saves something. Someone saves money for the dark days. They consider dark days if there is inflation again. Someone is saving on food. Someone buys groceries that can last a long time, flour, sugar, oil, beans, rice. I don't know if it's because of the wars and the inflation they experienced. I'm talking about my grandmother who used to do that. She knew well what it meant not to have, and out of fear she made supplies or it was her way of life. I see it this way.
People who never buy themselves new clothes
Most middle-aged people I know don’t buy themselves a new clothes. They pull old suits out of the closet, wear them to a tailor, remodel just so they can be worn for another season, not to be thrown away. The shoe cabinets are full of old shoes. Every pair of shoes is worn for restoration, just not to be thrown away. Although a pair of new shoes costs almost twice cheaper, it's inexplicable, just don't throw them away. I know people who pay more to dye jeans, coats, jackets than it costs a new piece of it, just not to throw it away. They don't care if this piece of clothing is out of all the trends, that it was fashionable 50 years ago.
People who glue a broken thing, patch it, just so they don't buy a new thing
I had a situation in the house, where our grandfather reprimanded us for throwing an iron that caught fire. It never occurred to him that we could have been killed, that the current could have killed us. He was angry that we didn't carry it to replace cable, but we threw it away. And our logic was that this cable and work cost more than a new iron. With the new iron we got a guarantee of course. 😊
That same grandfather fixed the broken plastic dustpan for cleaning, patched it, tide it up well, just so it wouldn't be thrown away. 😀 I believe you will like the photo.
People who eat food from 3 days ago just to not throw it away
The biggest and most serious thing in the “not to be thrown away” story is the food that is a few days old. I was a witness, the whole family got food poisoning from lunch they ate for 3 days, just not to be thrown away. Worst of all, it’s not that they don’t have. On the contrary, they have, they have more than enough. That's how they learned from a young age. You won't believe it, they still do the same thing after that poisoning. Just not to be thrown away.
Have you ever been in a situation where you were doing something like this? I think my people are unique in this behavior. 😊
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La verdad las distintas situaciones a cada uno nos lleva a tomar posición ante lo que dices que tu abuelo hace, en mi caso he tenido que aprender a reparar utensilios por no tener como reponerlos por uno nuevo, pero la mejor parte fue aprender a hacer ropa nueva, bien sea de ropa pasada de moda o de nuevos retazos de tela, amo el reciclaje le doy nueva vida a objetos viejos y me siento feliz de poder ahorrar dinero en esas cosas para poder invertirlo en otras.