Waste Not, Want Not

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My dad was a packrat. Not a hoarder, just someone who would save things in case he thought they might be useful. He had a "project bench" and was very handy with gardening, canning, and various carpentry projects, having grown up on a farm. He also grew up during the Great Depression in the US (1930s), so that magnified the farm mentality's "waste not, want not" attitude by a lot, I'm sure. There's an old saying, "Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without" that I like. Sooooo, I did not grow up on a farm, nor did I grow up during the Depression, but...I am my father's child, after all. I won't throw away anything that reasonably has some life in it, yet, because I don't like waste. I'm fine if I can recycle or donate things, so I'm not a hoarder, either. But "packrat"---yeah, that fits. We create VERY little garbage, here - my husband even has a compost bin. Anyway, here is one of my pencils, in a pencil holder that I taped together because it came apart. And that is pretty much all the proof you need.