Spontaneity

Spontaneity

I have always been a pretty conservative person.  I don't know when I first realized this about myself though.
I was raised in a very conservative household.  Both parents were victims of the depression years.  We did not waste anything.  Toothpaste tubes were squeezed so flat you could use them as aluminum foil.
Jars and cans were rinsed and had
 multipurpose.  Paper grocery bags lined our trash cans and covered our school books.  Twist ties from bread, rubber bands around the newspaper and straight pins from store bought shirts better not be thrown away!
How many uses can you make of a blown out bike inner tube?  Do you know how to make gorilla glue?  I think they stole my dad's basement invention.  We were high on glue fumes and not even trying as it circulated through the a/c ducts!
God bless my dad.  He had a basement to be envied by hoarders.
Need a bolt?  He had it.  Fix a wringer washer, yep, no problem.
Make an old tv or refrigerator last 20 years, he was the man.
I forgot to mention the best find of all, a strand of clorox bottles strung together by old panty hose?
What in God's holy name was that for?
So, in today's age of throw away,
I often think of my dad and wonder as I take the trash out, if he is shaking his head and muttering "that's a perfectly good jar!"
Yes, it is as I decided to spontaneously multipurpose it!