People of this sort have some sort of inner sickness driving them to behave in this manner when there is absolutely no need.
A couple I know having been doing a very odd thing for decades.?ÿ Say a local business sends them a bill in a common envelope.?ÿ They will very carefully turn the envelope inside out and tape any tears, put their payment in, stamp and mail.?ÿ Think of how little a single small envelope costs.
This same couple owns nearly 5000 acres of agricultural ground and enough cattle and support equipment to operate such an empire.?ÿ With zero debt.?ÿ In blistering heat, they will simply roll down the windows of their vehicle rather than turn on the air-conditioner because of the cost of the energy to operate it.
I was raised by folks that had a similar mind-set, except there was little wealth involved.?ÿ I always blamed it on the fact they had lived through the depression and dust bowl.?ÿ My mother used to wash and re-use aluminum foil.?ÿ It was 1966 when my father bought our first window a/c unit.?ÿ He would turn it on for about two hours during the hot part of the day.?ÿ When the sun waned he would turn it off and open the windows back up.
I remember a very rare road trip we took when I was about seven or eight.?ÿ After a day of visiting kin in Alva, OK we were trying to get home for an evening meal.?ÿ We couldn't make it.?ÿ Everyone was starving.?ÿ Pops finally found a diner off the highway.?ÿ I remember there was a neon sign that announced the place was "Air Conditioned Inside".?ÿ Now this was in blue neon, not the usual orange or green.
My folks sat in car for about ten minutes discussing the obvious fact the prices had to be elevated to pay for such a frivolity.?ÿ ?ÿThey finally caved and we got to sit in the big round booth in the corner.?ÿ I really think this was the first restaurant I ever went in and sat down to eat.?ÿ Everything else up until that time included a car hop and eating in the car.?ÿ
they will simply roll down the windows of their vehicle rather than turn on the air-conditioner because of the cost of the energy to operate it.
That's patently pathological CDO.
YEP.
Miserable too.
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Sounds like my Mom who grew up in post WWII East Germany.
Wish it had rubbed off a little more on me.
Dad retired at 50 and they live in Germany six months out of the year.
I'm 56 and no retirement in the foreseeable future.
Good thing I love what I do and don't want to retire any time soon.
They've changed the dump configuration and how refuse is treated. But when the open cells were still going there would be pickers waiting for you to throw out your junk and they would go pick out the garbage they wanted.
We had a dump site like that a couple miles from our house when I was a kid.?ÿ My dad called it "the Exchange".?ÿ You would toss off your pickup load of junk and then reload the pickup with valuable merchandise from various places around the dump.
One man's trash is another man's treasure.
The world is richer when useful things are not thrown away.
There are two reasons those "exchanges" get ruled out.?ÿ One is that it tends to create a mess when people dig through the trash. Another is that places like our local one have a contract with a company that picks up recyclable materials, which helps defray the costs of running the place.
Liability is the number one reason.?ÿ People wandering through the piles could easily be injured.
There are two things that drew me toward land surveying, junk piles and berry patches.?ÿ
Free stuff is like the earth giving you a big hug. ????
You got some strange people in Kansas. Witches, good and bad, Wizards, tornadoes, talking scarecrows among other non-human things chattering human language.?ÿ
Just knock it off, FL is in first place for weirdos and we plan to stay that way thank you!?ÿ ?????ÿ
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https://www.gosocial.co/23-of-the-craziest-things-to-happen-in-florida/
That's patently pathological CDO.
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See.?ÿ There are people worse than me.?ÿ Thank you!!!!
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Truth be told though...I'm a huge e.e.cummings fan so there's that too.
My first wife (she hailed from West Texas) had an uncle, her father's brother, that was a crusty old hermit rancher from a little place named Fluvanna, TX.?ÿ Born about 1915 he was born and lived up on the cap rock in a rickety little shotgun house with a small wood stove for heat.?ÿ I was there a couple of times and the place was a filthy mess.?ÿ It doesn't take a good nose to tell a human has been "dug in" at a place for years.?ÿ He had one daughter that would drive up there with groceries, medicine and take him to the doctor in Snyder occasionally.
The old man passed intestate in the early nineties with a close to 2 million dollars from oil royalties he had collected all his life.?ÿ His one daughter and an his brother (my father-in-law) were his sole beneficiaries.
The old man could have lived a lot more comfortably life with the money he had.?ÿ I'm guessing he lived just like he wanted though.?ÿ It's hard to wrap your head around things like that sometimes, but it is no less reality.?ÿ ?ÿ?ÿ
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Hope Angel doesn't make it down to #19.
Saw this depression-era photo of the dump.?ÿ What a contrast to today's disposable items.
