Comments on: Going green? buy used! https://www.web-betty-blog.com/2008/12/21/going-green-buy-used/ Still crazy after all these years Thu, 05 Feb 2009 17:54:44 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.5 By: Mom https://www.web-betty-blog.com/2008/12/21/going-green-buy-used/comment-page-1/#comment-598 Tue, 23 Dec 2008 22:47:35 +0000 http://www.web-betty-blog.com/?p=656#comment-598 My “reuse” story starts long,long ago and far, far away. (From where she is now, of course.) This blog owner was 3 years old, and drop-dead beautiful. (Picture Jonah with long curly blonde hair and killer eyelashes.) Being that cute cried out for cute clothes, a passion she STILL shares. Being a single mother, I had limited funds to spend on said cute clothes. MY Mom drug me to this new store she had found on Federal in Denver, called the ARC. Said it was cheaper than the Goodwill, and had better stuff. I was right there! My Mom had $$…she didn’t have to shop used, but for some rason, just HATED to pay retail.

We went, and I walked out of that store with 2 huge bags full of cute clothes for Miss and me, and it cost me $8.00. That began my love affair with “used” stores. Have always loved garage sales, and no matter what she says here, this blog owner wasn’t so unhappy with being “drug” to them when she came away with a bag of toys for $1!!

But I digress…MY “reuse” story is that 30-something years later, my dauhter, and now my grandbabies are more conscience of the world we live on/in, and how to stop misusing it. She is also aware that things don’t have to have an expensive price tag to mean something, and be usable.

Cheers to you my darling, and thank you for passing that along to the boys!

PS…The ARC is a non-profit organization dedicated to bettering the lives and opportunities of handicapped and disabled people across the country. The Association for Retarded Citizens has stores in nearly all 50 states. Times are tough. Give what you can.

Merry Christmas to all, and to you, my darlings, I’m always right there.

Love,

GramMa

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