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Generation buy. Are we coming full circle?

As a youngster, I remember gawking as my Grandma poured green-tinged water from the beans she’d just boiled for our dinner into a cup. It sat on the window sill and cooled until she gulped it down. Back then, even vitamins weren’t wasted. In the Seventies, my mom shopped at a bulk food store, scooping nuts, granola, beans and sometimes candy from salvaged whisky barrels into brown paper bags. She darned our socks, made homemade yogurt, and our Tupperware consisted of recycled margarine containers. She was not penny pinching, we were solidly middle class urbanites, this was just normal behavior. In retrospect, my childhood looks antiquated. 

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