So, wait, no drinking milk straight from the breast?  This depression sucks.

Why are home gardens and chicken coops bad?

I'm not advocating this, but there are worse fates than being like Japan in the 1990s.

ratner, based on your criteria, it evidently doesn't suck.

Except this time all the Californians will be moving to Oklahoma.

"Except this time all the Californians will be moving to Oklahoma"

Great news - 7 more blue electoral votes in 2012!

In the ironyroad household, tinfoil has *always* been reused.  Unless, of course, it's encrusted with, you know, burnt and hardened gunk of some kind or another.

One must have standards.

My sr. year of college and the year after graduation I lived in this hippie commune.  I can see re-using tin foil that isn't too crumpled and has a few dry crumbs on it - I do, too.  But the hippies were adamant about never buying paper towels.  They'd also constantly re-use those plastic bags that you get for produce.  Eventually, weeks' worth of combined produce juices, dirt and incipient rot would really wear those bags down.

1.what ryanburke said,

2. irony, you can soak anything off of foil. Soaking is your friend, washingwise.

3. satyendra, don't let hippie incompetence prevent you from reusing plastic bags. Of course you have to rinse them out and let them dry if they've got stuff still in them. Moisture is your enemy here. Even in the fridge. Plastic bags on veggies in the fridge is asking for trouble.

4. If that's as bad as it gets, whew. Massive whew. I'm expecting much, much worse.