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Thread #172985   Message #4210796
Posted By: Dorothy Parshall
01-Nov-24 - 09:20 PM
Thread Name: DECLUTTER *hoards *bad habits *toxic stuff - 2024
Subject: RE: DECLUTTER *hoards *bad habits *toxic stuff - 2024
Dupont:

OK day. Went to Bank to cash govt cheques as in infusion after giving the govt all my cash yesterday. Then stopped in at a community group. Still trying to figure out where the office is, Joanne, the only one I recognize, greeted me effusively as usual. And a Sandra joined in. I suggested they know where I live they could drop in??? Also mentioned the book someone borrowed in January. Joanne said she would look into it. That was the sum total of today's energy! Came home and picked up computer. Looked for auto ins, making a few phone calls - phones that were dysfunctional and people who did not speak clearly. Got an on-line quote and will think on it. The current company is only Ontario. They have sent me a form to sign on line - I'll try! after I sort out the new stuff.

I, by the way, have never bought, or used any black plastic spatulas nor those no-stick pans. Only stainless or glass. When my Dad was dying of Cancer (1962), the doctor told us to get rid of all the aluminum - we did. Never bought Tupperware either - a distrust of plastics generally. Dupont- the company in Delaware that developed the motto: Better living through plastic" was just a few miles away. They came to the New World in a sailing ship and brought their entire library. Visiting an exhibit at one of the estates they had donated as a park/museum, I was quite impressed that they brought their library! I am not impressed that they started out manufacturing gunpowder then plastics... But the public gets to visit their discarded estates with marvellous gardens.

Now I take my pills and go to bed!