Conservation

I would like to say that over Christmas vacation, I taught my mom to use a garlic press that we found in her drawer. After observing, she said she wouldn't be using it in the future, because with a garlic press there's some of the skin that you throw away. She didn't like that waste. 

My parents are really incredible--I've never met anyone who uses everything so thoroughly--well except in Slovakia where I watched a friend use the end of a container of lotion--and in Poland where the nuns at a convent dug the old towels that we brought to use on a backpacking adventure and then threw away (because they were very small old towels from when we were children) out of the trash, because we received them as our towels from the nuns--Mickey Mouse and Barney and all--on a return trip.