Donal,
You are stereotyping the lifestyle here. I have a smallish
refrigerator...14 cubic ft...we drive cars that get 30 mpg and we buy them
new and drive them until they die...we use our air conditioner maybe 5 days
a summer and never I never use the air conditioner in my car but prefer to
have the window open...You don't have a TV? We have a small set in the
living room and then we have the old tv in the family room that we very
seldom use except when the grandkids are here and want to play with the Play
Station...I do my dishes by hand, di not have an insinkerator or a trash
compacter...we recycle all out pop bottles and reuse out plastic milk
cartons until they literally are no longer usable...Think is, most of my
friends live the same way...You can't judge us from tv shows....just like we
shouldn't assume that you are all like Hyacinth Bucket or Benny Hill. And I
live in a brick house, not glass...it's much more energy efficient and you
don't lose all that heat through the glass.....

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