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Tin Foil Drawer
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Tin Foil Drawer

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Jul 15, 2025, 11:30 PM
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Anyone’s grandparents (or parents) have one? My grandparents on my dads side were raising kids right in the middle of the depression so we’re always reusing what they could. When I was a kid, they had a drawer in the kitchen with used aluminum foil…some of which appeared to be from the depression era.

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Jul 15, 2025, 11:33 PM
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Mine also. My grandmother saved everything and sat in the dark until he got home from work. At that stage he had become a very successful business man and one of means.

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Jul 15, 2025, 11:42 PM
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Haha…My dad and aunt both still sit in the dark. They watch TV at night but there won’t be a single other light source on in the house.

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Jul 16, 2025, 1:13 AM
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I STILL go from room to room turning off lights that are on. It was drilled in my head by my father in the 1970’s Energy Crisis!

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Jul 16, 2025, 8:26 AM [ in reply to Re: Tin Foil Drawer ]
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My wife and I do that-why would we have other lights on if we're sitting watching tv? I even close all the doors so we don't air condition the outside. Heard that a million times growing up and I guess it stuck.

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Jul 16, 2025, 8:52 AM
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well, for one, it's bad for your eyesight.

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Jul 16, 2025, 9:37 AM
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I think that's a tin foil hat tidbit.

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My wife will reuse tin foil.. she'll fold it into squares

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Jul 16, 2025, 7:12 AM
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And put it in the draw with the unused tub foil. Plastic wrap, and butcher paper

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We had a drawer with rubber bands off the newspapers each day,

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Jul 16, 2025, 9:26 AM
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and the little twisty ties or clips off the top of bread bags!!

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Jul 16, 2025, 10:08 AM
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Yep…Dad saves the little clips and twist ties and grandparents did the same with those and rubber bands. I will admit that I have needed a rubber band many times over the years and had none.

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Jul 16, 2025, 9:29 AM
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My parents and grandparents unfortunately had to live through it

Pray that it never happens again

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I have a place for once used foil.

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Jul 16, 2025, 9:37 AM
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No sense in tossing it if it's clean and has no holes. But I do that with a lot of things. Grandparents grew up in Great Depression.

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