westend wrote:I don't live that way, wasn't the way I was brought up. My parents both grew up through the Great Depression (the 1920's version not the housing crash of 2000's ).Ah, children of the children of the Great Depression. I can identify with that relationship and I'm sure there are others on this Forum that can do the same. Those forebearers that lived during that era learned to save everything and wasted nothing.
The following is a true conversation I had with one of our workers in my role as a golf course mechanic and a crew member at a Suburban upscale golf course:
Him: This string trimmer won't run, where do I throw it away?
Me: Around here, we don't trash them, we fix them. Let me have it. It will be a few minutes.
Him: Why don't you just pitch it and give me another one?
Me: Let me ask you, if your parents have a string trimmer and it quits running to do you throw it away?
Him: Yes
Me: OK, if your parents have a lawn mower and it breaks do you throw it away?
Him: Yes
Me: Alright. That BMW you drove in here with today, if it breaks are you going to throw it away?
Him: No, we would get it fixed.
Me: Well, around here, all our equipment is treated like a BMW, we don't throw it away when broken. :B
