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Message: [QUOTE="Bama fan, post: 3095816, member: 7757"] It is a habit that I just cannot shed. Like cleaning my plate . It was so firmly ensconced in my psyche. I even turn out lights habitually. And pay to recycle. Waste not , want not was my parents vade mecum. They grew up in the Depression, came from big families, and never got over it. When my Dad died, it took three days to haul away all the bits and pieces he had accumulated in his life. Jars of nails and screws and nuts and washers and a lumber yard under the front porch and bits of wire and old appliances. Old fittings with the solder still nearly intact, and pipe fittings and tools for laying slate roofs. It is in my blood! BTW, my wife and I cut the lawn for the first time this season one day last week, and she found a ten dollar bill under some leaves. She makes me get the pennies. :D [/QUOTE]