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(23,845 posts)The older lady is probably older than me, but as a child of the 60's, many of what she remembers (fictional person or not) is what was reality in my life.
We returned bottles.
Milk came in bottles that the "milk man" collected on his deliveries.
We used paper bags until the at least the '80s
Water bottles are a fairly new phenomenon. Again, probably in late '80s-early '90s.
Disposable diapers didn't have widespread use until mid to late 60's.
Although we weren't using fountain pens, many of the pens I used in school had replaceable ink cartridges.
I walked to school all the way through high school. It was rare for for a high school kid to have a car. Most middle class families only had one car when I was growing up and that was for the Dad to get to work.
We only had one TV my whole life at home for a family of 6.
We did use public transportation to get to and from school and work. I walked to the train station, rode the B&M train into Boston, then took the subway to get to my final destination..
The whole point of the post was to point out how things have changed and not necessarily for the better in terms of the environment.
Yes we had gas guzzling cars that emitted pollution. Coal was for a long time the major fuel to heat most homes. Recycling wasn't even on the radar, except that we reused anything that could be reused for it's original purpose or other purpose. We weren't a throw away society.
No generation is perfect, we keep evolving. But sometimes that evolution creates more problems than it eliminates.