Reply #5: Lint saving was popular [View All]

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It could be washed and used like we use cotton balls or for filtering, padding, and other purposes. String was another big collectible. The printed muslin that packaged flour found its way first into a useful article of clothing and later recycled into a quilt or apron.

These things I know as my mother told me so. And I still have one of those flour sack aprons.

How easy it was to learn to waste, as was marketed beginning in the 1950s. And Madison Avenue hasn't let up yet.