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Frugal and Energy Efficient Living

Sherman A1

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2. Every situation is different

Reply to MADem (Reply #1)

Thu Jan 17, 2013, 04:59 AM

Jan 2013

some items hold up and can accept minor repairs, others don't as well as we know. Although I believe that we do need to move away from the disposable mindset of our world, some things just can't be repaired easily or economically. One hopes that when the useful service life of those items comes to an end, they at least find their way to the recycle bin.

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Before you trash it, wear it out [View all] Sherman A1 Jan 2013 OP

I still wear a shirt I bought in Hong Kong in the early eighties. MADem Jan 2013 #1

Every situation is different Sherman A1 Jan 2013 #2

When we're done with clothes, they become handy dandy rags for use around the house. MADem Jan 2013 #3

Great ideas! gateley Jan 2013 #5

I've mentally scanned my closet -- you've got me beat by a decade or two! gateley Jan 2013 #6

It's worse than that, actually. MADem Jan 2013 #9

As I was donning my "nightshirt" teeshirt last night, I was thinking that I must have had this gateley Jan 2013 #4

Old socks make good wiping down rags and mittens Kaleva Jan 2013 #7

Socks and underwear usually cannot be passed on but everything else can and should. jwirr Jan 2013 #8

I use those old socks as dust rags. Curmudgeoness Jan 2013 #10

Aluminum Foil is good to clean the Sherman A1 Jan 2013 #11

LOL---the "now worn bristles" or the wire brush! Curmudgeoness Jan 2013 #12

Oh, I have a few more wire brushes Sherman A1 Jan 2013 #13

My lawn mower is a 1981 model, so you win.... Curmudgeoness Jan 2013 #14

My SP broke down a year ago and I Sherman A1 Jan 2013 #15

I wish it was just the belt. Curmudgeoness Jan 2013 #16

Sounds like mine a few years ago Sherman A1 Jan 2013 #17