Reply #30: A convenient carrier and I assume they took the baby out first.

[Cleita]

The whole trash thing sort of has me wondering. You might be surprised how quickly trash accumulates if you don't have a means of disposal.

Now in my day, my depression minded grandmother saved everything to reuse. What couldn't be reused was burned in an incinerator. Much though back then was recycled. There were no milk cartons but bottles you returned. Soft drink bottles as well. Meat came home wrapped in butcher's wrap, which she washed and used for other things. The plastic wrap your Wonder Bread came in also wrapped your school lunch.

The cardboard boxes that delivered canned goods to the market also were used to pack your groceries. There was no paper or plastic. That would have been a luxury.
So wrapping could be a big problem with the trash for those poor people. I don't know about the plumbing except if the water was cut off, a lot of people don't know how to run water from a bucket down the loo. They were never taught.

I really feel so sorry for people who are caught in this. They either struggle or the smart ones turn to petty crime.