wolfy 12 Posted October 1, 2012 Share Posted October 1, 2012 Going back to war time when rationing was in force, right up to the 70's when stuff was expensive compared to the wages people got, most people actually only bought what was required in the main didn't they. Most fridges were small and if you were lucky, it had a small ice cube type freezer box inside that you could maybe fit a box of fish fingers and a box of beefburgers in and with a squeeze, your ice cube tray. We got one pint of fresh milk a day from the milk man and if lucky, we had 2 boxes of cereal at any one time in the house. The fresh milk was for the eldest , whilst we had to mix marvel up for our cereal or put a spoonful in our tea. I can actually remember eating the odd spoonful of dry marvel. The thing is, we didn't waste a thing, or rarely, unless it went off prematurely. This was in the early 70's and obviously colour televisions were for the better off families, where as , we had a black and white set with the big push buttons, with 3 channels at the time, BBC1, BBC2 and TYNE TEES. We had that telly till it went on the blink, like 99% of other stuff. A lot of people used to have a cold pantry and no fridge and also, the washing machine with the wringer on where you put your clothes through after they come out of the water and fed them into it...coming out the other side as stiff as cardboard. When I think of what my mother had to do, especially ironing, it makes me realise just how piss easy we have it today. The strange thing about the fresh milk then was, it went sour in no time...yet now, most of us buy 4 or 6 pint cartons, yet you have to threaten it to go off as it just stands there looking at you, arms folded, saying," you will drink me before I go off mate." The strange thing is, we had a big family and yet managed on a tin of marvel a week , plus one pint of milk, yet we seem to be able to wallop off a 6 pint carton in less than 2 days now, yet even if that milk stays in the fridge for 5 days, it's still perfectly usable. We rigged up our bikes in the 70's from any old bits of bikes we could find and also go carts out of prams and skateboards made out of stale French bread loaves with old roller skate wheels glued on them with thickly mixed cornflour... Well ok, we weren't that clever...I just made the French loaf thing up for effect. Anyway, very little was wasted and shopping was done as and when needed, basically when the cupboards were literally bare. Today, not only do we waste food on our plates, we fill up a trolley with fresh stuff that's impossible to consume before it goes off and it goes in the bin. We also change clothes, phones, games consoles, household goods and you name it, with regularity, whilst binning decent stuff. I'm guilty of a lot of stuff where food is concerned and I'm a nightmare when asked to take the wife shopping because I sling everything in the trolley and she goes off it. The killer, is the con job that the stores do, as in, two for one, or buy one, get two free, especially with stuff that actually does go off quick such as crumpets and bread, plus doughnuts , pies and stuff. As far as gadgets are concerned, I'm easy going with them and still use the first mobile I ever got but I do feel silly at times walking around town with it strapped to my back with a big aerial on it, so I put army gear on sometimes to make it look like I'm a radio operator. Seriously though, as far as clothes and gadgets go, I'm lagging behind as I will wait till they are no better than working gear before I get new, plus I will not buy expensive shoes or trainers or jeans, tops, socks or undies. I can get a full rig out for about 40 quid, including the trainers. I don't mind going out with WANG AIR MAX trainers. I have no problem wearing Alvin dime undies or Xangler jeans as the expensive stuff is all but a few changed letters. We think nothing of going to the Chinese and ordering half the menu, using Bart Simpson eyes do we, knowing for a fact that half of it is going in the bin usually, unless we can force ourselves to warm it up the next day, which all depends on how many trollies of food you bought on the same day as the night you decided to buy half the Chinese. How mental is that eh? Aye love, we've spent £150 on food, it's all put away now...fancy a big fuck off Chinese. Come on lads and lasses, tell me a story or tell me what you waste and how often you change gadgets and such... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ayatollah Hermione 13894 Posted October 1, 2012 Share Posted October 1, 2012 Truly. We're tuned to waste our 100 year campaign Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfy 12 Posted October 1, 2012 Author Share Posted October 1, 2012 The problem is, a lot of what we waste is actually thrust upon us for obvious monetary gain by the big food outlets and gadget companies but we always fall for it don't we, in some way, shape of form. Peer pressure is another key area of wastage in terms of branded goods, whether it's food or kids trainers, clothes e.t.c and we are all guilty of at least some of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Gloom 21965 Posted October 1, 2012 Share Posted October 1, 2012 I'm constantly having a go at the wife for throwing everything away the day it hits the best before date. She chucks leftover takeaways out too if I don't stop her. Sacrilege. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfy 12 Posted October 1, 2012 Author Share Posted October 1, 2012 I'm constantly having a go at the wife for throwing everything away the day it hits the best before date. She chucks leftover takeaways out too if I don't stop her. Sacrilege. Aye, many of us tend to follow the best before dates and panic thinking it's gonna harm us when in actual fact the majority of it is perfectly good. There's some people that rummage the skips behind supermarkets, picking up all kids of stuff and living like Kings and Queens for nothing. Think of the money we could save if we actually ate what we term as out of date. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sniffer 0 Posted October 1, 2012 Share Posted October 1, 2012 Any electronic equipment. Cheaper to replace it than fix it. Mind boggling really. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfy 12 Posted October 1, 2012 Author Share Posted October 1, 2012 The thing is,we seem to get a massive whack of peer pressure put on us with gadgets don't we. Take phones for instance, younger people are conscious of keeping a phone for too long because they are constantly updated and they know their mates will have updated versions, so they all go on contracts, usually the contracts that cost a lot of money a month, just because it guarantees them the next updated phone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChezGiven 0 Posted October 1, 2012 Share Posted October 1, 2012 (edited) Sounds like Wolfy needs to learn how to shop. I have it good with a market on my doorstep but still going to a supermarket and stocking up with things that will go off before you have time to eat them is just being a bad shopper (refrains from being rude). Spending 150 notes on shopping then getting a Chinese in which you cant finish as there's too much sounds odd for someone on the dole. Or we need to reduce the dole. Edited October 1, 2012 by ChezGiven Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfy 12 Posted October 1, 2012 Author Share Posted October 1, 2012 Sounds like Wolfy needs to learn how to shop. I have it good with a market on my doorstep but still going to a supermarket and stocking up with things that will go off before you have time to eat them is just being a bad shopper (refrains from being rude). Spending 150 notes on shopping then getting a Chinese in which you cant finish as there's too much sounds odd for someone on the dole. Or we need to reduce the dole. Chez Renton.I don't claim one penny off the state and if you feel the need to be rude, let it all out chick, I've got broad shoulders. It's not as if I'm not used to this is it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Park Life 71 Posted October 1, 2012 Share Posted October 1, 2012 America wastes 40% of its energy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChezGiven 0 Posted October 1, 2012 Share Posted October 1, 2012 Chez Renton. I don't claim one penny off the state and if you feel the need to be rude, let it all out chick, I've got broad shoulders. It's not as if I'm not used to this is it. I thought you said you were on the dole? You dont work then but dont claim the dole? I see, no wonder you have a wasteful attitude to money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest CabayeAye Posted October 1, 2012 Share Posted October 1, 2012 America wastes 40% of its energy. How the hell do you calculate that?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Park Life 71 Posted October 1, 2012 Share Posted October 1, 2012 How the hell do you calculate that?! No idea. Then again hundreds of billions were 'missing' the day before 9/11. [/Rumsfeld] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfy 12 Posted October 1, 2012 Author Share Posted October 1, 2012 I thought you said you were on the dole? You dont work then but dont claim the dole? I see, no wonder you have a wasteful attitude to money. Come on Chezney, you can do better than that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest CabayeAye Posted October 1, 2012 Share Posted October 1, 2012 I heard Wolfy doesn't believe in currency. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChezGiven 0 Posted October 1, 2012 Share Posted October 1, 2012 Come on Chezney, you can do better than that. Why won't you answer MY question? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfy 12 Posted October 1, 2012 Author Share Posted October 1, 2012 Why won't you answer MY question? What question is that then Chezney son. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChezGiven 0 Posted October 1, 2012 Share Posted October 1, 2012 What question is that then Chezney son. If you were able to take your eyeball out of its socket, still properly connected to the brain and turn it round to look at your other eye, what would you see? And was I wrong about you saying you were on the dole? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfy 12 Posted October 1, 2012 Author Share Posted October 1, 2012 If you were able to take your eyeball out of its socket, still properly connected to the brain and turn it round to look at your other eye, what would you see? And was I wrong about you saying you were on the dole? Penis for your thoughts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChezGiven 0 Posted October 1, 2012 Share Posted October 1, 2012 Just read the bbc license thread, that's why you don't want to answer as you already have. Then my point to you is simple, eat something before you go food shopping. If you go food shopping when you are hungry, you end up with stuff you throw away. I have 3 butchers, 3 grocers and 5 bakeries on my market so I have it very easy for popping out to get what we need fresh. As for the rest of the waste in our lives, as a society we are getting much more efficient not less. Imo anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfy 12 Posted October 1, 2012 Author Share Posted October 1, 2012 Just read the bbc license thread, that's why you don't want to answer as you already have. Then my point to you is simple, eat something before you go food shopping. If you go food shopping when you are hungry, you end up with stuff you throw away. I have 3 butchers, 3 grocers and 5 bakeries on my market so I have it very easy for popping out to get what we need fresh. As for the rest of the waste in our lives, as a society we are getting much more efficient not less. Imo anyway. More efficient are we. I'd say we are getting more efficient at wasting food and money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renton 21643 Posted October 1, 2012 Share Posted October 1, 2012 I can get a full rig out for about 40 quid, including the trainers. Are you sure you aren't on the dole? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChezGiven 0 Posted October 1, 2012 Share Posted October 1, 2012 More efficient are we. I'd say we are getting more efficient at wasting food and money. You sound like you waste a lot of food, we definitely dont. However, I guess you are right when you think about the fact that the majority of people don't care and all the restaurants and supermarkets in the developed world throwing food out every day. In contrast to starving kids in the developing world, it's a ridiculous waste. In the global sense, we are 'inefficient' as some starve whilst some waste food but the idea of efficiency in this sense would be based on a system that doesn't exist. Not sure you can waste money in the global sense. As an individual of course you can but if you stupidly buy something you dont need, the person you pay may use it much more efficiently. The transfer of money from stupid to intelligent is an efficient transfer mechanism Recycling is a modern trend and it is now pretty much global, this is increasingly efficient waste management, so people are trying to reverse the trend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meenzer 15561 Posted October 1, 2012 Share Posted October 1, 2012 At least there are some schemes in place to give waste food from supermarkets/restaurants to the homeless/needy, but obviously they're just a drop in the ocean. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfy 12 Posted October 1, 2012 Author Share Posted October 1, 2012 Are you sure you aren't on the dole? Are you gay? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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