Aging Parents with Lots of Stuff, and Children Who Don’t Want It

Re:Aging Parents with Lots of Stuff, and Children Who Don’t ... by Angostura on Monday August 21, 2017 @04:56AM (#15062977)

I grew up in the 70s in the U.K. and I always laughed at the way that at Christmas my grandparents (and parents on occasion) would save string from parcels and fold up particularly nice wrapping paper from presents they received.

Of course, now I realise jus how close the Second World War was. If the war had finished in 1997, with rationing continuing until 2007, I too might be loathe to throw things away.

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Re:Aging Parents with Lots of Stuff, and Children Who Don’t ... by adwww on Monday August 21, 2017 @09:08AM (#15064258)

My MIL has not left the 70s and still does this. You can watch the discomfort on her face when she watches my 4yr old girl destroy good wrapping paper, or even rip open an envelope instead of saving it for re-use.

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Re:Aging Parents with Lots of Stuff, and Children Who Don’t ... by wink on Monday August 21, 2017 @01:20PM (#15066042)

I save all the padded envelopes and never get to reuse them because apparently I don't send enough random stuff. And I was born in the 80s and there's no obvious reason.

But I draw a line at normal paper :)

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Re:Aging Parents with Lots of Stuff, and Children Who Don’t ... by Angostura on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @06:15AM (#15071018)

Ah yes. The stack of padded envelopes. I have those too :(

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Re:Aging Parents with Lots of Stuff, and Children Who Don’t ... by gozur88 on Monday August 21, 2017 @07:25PM (#15068621)

Hahaha. My mother still does that. She has boxes full of neatly folded used gift wrapping paper.

She also used to wash ziploc bags for reuse.

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