Everyone is starting seedlings for their gardens this year. And posting them. It doesn't matter that most people don't have room to plant everything they started. They're just excited about seedlings. Somehow, Washington Post has something to do with this.
I've been starting my own plants for years. I even used to save seeds from my heirloom plants, but they started crossing and giving me unexpected and sometimes strange tomatoes. The bell shaped ones were really weird. So now I buy seeds from a little hardware/feed and seed up the hill from me. I still end up with a few too many plants, and I know how much garden space I have.
Cutting cable has been a recent trend. I remember when cable got laid past our old house. A subdivision was being built nearby, and they ran cable up our rural road to reach it. I received a postcard about us being cable ready. My husband was on the couch reading, and the two year old was on the floor near him, playing with toys. I recall thinking that if we had all those channels, the TV would be on. So I threw out the postcard.
I've been baking my own bread since about 2010, when both the price and air content of bread went up. I'm a pastry chef. It was kind of dumb that we were buying it in the first place. When the pandemic hit, I already had an active sourdough starter, which was suddenly the hot thing. I gave away my discard to a few friends, safely distanced in my yard.
Thrift stores are suddenly the best way to not destroy the environment. Clothing manufacture is hard on the earth. Been doing that a long time too. And raising hens. I quit dying my hair six months before the lockdown.
Next time you look in a mirror and think "I'm becoming my parent," well, you might be. But society as a whole? Y'all are becoming me.
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