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J. F. Riordan's avatar

I, too, come from a family of savers and re-users, and although I am not much good at it—and stubbornly refuse to save bags or old jars to clutter up my kitchen—my sister and I spent weeks going through the backlog of my parents’ things-that-might-come-in handy. I did keep a few of my great grandfather’s old cigar boxes, carefully labeled in his Germanic script to identify the various nuts, bolts, and screws that are still inside. I also have my mother’s old sewing box and my grandmother’s spools of thread. Not that I will ever use them. But because they still exist.

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Cheryl Dyrness Cloyd's avatar

Isn't it funny how long it takes for us to come to just one of these conclusions... For me, it was feeling free to not like spicy food in a family full of spicy food lovers. 😆

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