The crazy thing for me seeing the flint water crisis was how many people donated plastic water bottles. Yes, people have to drink. But donate in something reusable, 1 gallon jugs you can refill, 5 gallon, etc. Not single use water bottles that people use literally to take showers, 20 or more at a time. That was just borrowing from the future to solve a short term need and make some people rich on poor people’s suffering. It was a nice thought, but famous people wanting publicity for donating a million for those costco water bottles was so short sighted. Glad we got through at least the worst of it, but the landfills and debt we caused for future generations for something like this…. maybe we managed to ship it off to another country or make another ski hill but some time sooner or later stuff like that is going to come back around on us or our kids.

My grandma used them for everything, grandpa had some in the garage.

We make homemade cookies every year and refill them.

My buddy moved away for college and said the best gift he got was one of these. Any time it was empty he would send it to his mom and she would refill it and send it back to him with homemade cookies. Really neat idea for homesick college kids.

Similarly, we save all of our takeout containers (the plastic ones, typical for our thai and chineese, etc) and take them to relatives at thanksgiving because they make a great way to split leftovers and you don’t have to care about ever getting it back.