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For the good half-century I have known him, my Dad has reigned supreme as king of the cliché. He is known for his predictability in this regard. “It’s a long road that doesn’t have a turn” stumped me for decades. “Don’t count your chickens before they hatch” frustrated me, but I understood it. In any appropriate context, Dad’s grandsons race him to be the first to say, “It’s the calm before the storm.” But, perhaps his most oft-spoken cliché, and the one that has lightened my personal carbon footprint is, “Waste not. Want not.” I learned early on to turn off light switches when leaving a room and to wash hands with cold water (because you’re finished washing before the hot water can get to you, anyway). Reuse a paper towel, if you have to use one at all, to clean a baseboard before throwing it away. On and on his waste-prevention list went. Now, I look for fiber to reuse rather than see it thrown away. One of my favorite projects involves used burlap coffee sacks, cut up, reshaped, lined with used fabrics, and transformed into stunning and very useable tote bags, like these:
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Deborah
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