Great recycler or pack rat?

Hie 3ddatawiz, I think your mother in law is a great recycler..:) My mum is like that too. She was helping my dad in the grocery shop business and she picked up the frugal ways through the years. Everything is precious and useful to her, she would not be throw them away immediately. If she finds something that she is not sure what to do with, she would put aside and decide later after discussing with my dad. As you have mentioned things like plastic bags, cardboards, rubber bands, raffia strings, glass & plastic bottles, tin and plastic containers, microwavable tupper wares and many more. But I like the bottles that she collected, it comes in many shapes, colors and design which hardly to be found nowadays. During festive seasons, many customers will buy those tin, glass or plastic containers and tupper wares to store cookies/biscuits. She will fill up the recycle clean glass bottles with boiled drinking water for use later or in case of outings.. Soiled aluminum plastic packets of medication tablets, paper packets are collected together with cardboards, papers to be sent to the recycle center. Cardboards were cut and molded nicely to fit and were placed against the wall where the back of the settee will lean, so that the wall wouldn't get any scratch marks. There is many more and she could actually compile a book on the tips...lol...and I learn a lot from her. Cheers, Cheers