Confession: I Use Too Many Paper Towels

[cezanne]

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The wife for some reason only buys Bounty. If I only need a small piece I rip the square and put the remainder back on top of the roll too. But hmmm I never recycled papertowels (wash and dry)... dats funny .

[panthercat]

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I have a habit, that I got from my dad, of tearing only the corner of the paper towel off of the roll when I need some. It's irrationally frugal and makes me look like, I dunno, like an old nisei man who grew up in the Depression.

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Glen, You aren't alone in this respect, as many of us whose parents survived the depression suffer these "irrationally frugal" episodes. We are a composite of those who raised us and our own experiences and it has been my observation the more someone tries not to be like a parent, the more like them they become. One woman I knew tried so hard not to be anything like her mother that she later lamented she was much worse then her Mother ever was. My ex Mother in law had 9 kids, 10 if you counted her husband and had a set schedule of what to do on what day. My ex wanted to do everything just like her mom, albeit she didn't have any reasons. Heredity does weird things to a person.

[MadAzza]

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What the -- ? A sincere question about the state motto gets two responses, and a thread about using paper towels has 46?

What a bunch of goofballs! I love this place!