re: #109 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

my mom (born 1918) would wipe off paper plates and put them back on the stack.

I tried to point out that if she was going to wipe off a plate, then why buy paper ones in the first place except for a picnic, but somehow conserving and reusing was just ingrained.

My aunts used to cut paper towels in half before half sheet paper towels came on the market.