My mom was born in 1944 and she used to tell us how when it was time for a new dress she'd get to go with my Grandma to the feed store. (they were farmers) Mom had 12 brothers and sisters so money was WAY tight! It used to make me laugh and laugh when she'd tell about going up and down the rows of chicken feed to pick out her
'new dress'! I used to think that was the funniest thing when I was a kid! LOL
She also said that they used flour sacks for things like underwear. They would bleach out the stamping on them with lye soap and make underwear including something that looked like a bra. They used everthing back then!

It really seems sad in a way the way our society is so wasteful. It seems like everything at the grocery store come in a package of some kind that has to go into the garbage. We are a family of 3 and it seems like we have a HUGE amount of garbage every week even though we try to recycle.

Maybe we should try to go back to simple times and truck over to the dog food store and pick out fabric for a new dress!!!!!! Hmmmmmmm....

It wouldn't be a bad idea, would it????