I raised my family without using paper towels, I used part of a grocery bag to drain meat on, really TP was the only disposable paper I used. Now that I'm older I used paper towels, but still sparingly, we might use one roll a month. I've got really cheap TP I could use to drain meat on if I had to.
Just this morning I remarked to DH that there was nothing I needed to go to the store for. We are having ribs for dinner tomorrow and he asked if I had BBQ sauce and I said yes. Then I counted and I only have 7 bottles, so I'm going to look up how to make BBQ sauce from scratch. I'm surprised I'm down to 7 bottles, I usually keep a minimum of 10 bottles of most condements.
I'm not hoarding, I have a full pantry. Piss on the naysayers.
God is good all the time
Judy
Brings to mind how much we used brown paper sacks, which were the only game in town back in the day. Yes, draining bacon. Kitchen trash bags. School book covers (the same books were used year after year, and we were *required* to cover them; in high school we could buy shiny covers with school name, mascot & colors in the office, as well as school pencils). Wrapping packages for mailing, tied with twine. Making sturdy copies of pattern pieces for sewing when we had used the same one so many times it was wearing out. What else? Gosh, I'm sounding like my Grandma talking about the "old days"!