- In the winter it is warmer outside then it is inside.
- You open the freezer and are excited to find a container of ice cream, only to open it and discover it's full of homemade soup or stamppot.
- When looking in the fridge, you never trust that the yogurt or margarine containers contain what the label says.
- You were "green" before it was popular. Why recycle when you can just reuse!
- You wash and reuse plastic cups and plastic cutlery.
- You have soup and open faced sandwiches for Sunday lunch.
- The most frequent phrase uttered growing up was "TURN OFF THE LIGHTS!!"
- All the tables in your house are covered in tablecloths.
- You collect coupons like they're going out of style.
- You've been known to recycle aluminum foil and Ziploc bags.
- You reuse teabags.
- When you hear all the new ways of saving energy, you yawn and say "I've been doing that all my life"!
- You eat your sandwiches open faced. "What? You want another slice of bread? I'll make you another sandwich"
- You rarely have meat and cheese on the same sandwich.
- You have 100 rolls of toilet paper in your house--because it was on sale.
- You put a little water into a jar of tomato sauce and shake it to make sure you got it all out.
- You have trouble shopping for hats. There should be at least two sizes: 'one size fits all' and 'Dutch'.
- You wipe the last of the butter out of the container with your BUN.
- You make the bed in your hotel room.
- Your kitchen is filled with milk bags drying, waiting to be reused in the freezer.
- Your favorite mustard comes in jars that can be reused as drinking glasses.
- You leave a window opened all year to get fresh air.
- You have a vegetable garden because there is no way you're paying that much for veggies at the grocery store.
- Your fridge is stocked with leftovers. Throw out food? NEVER!
- You go to the "Dutch store" because the smell brings back so many childhood memories.
- Everything is do-it-yourself - it's cheaper then hiring someone.
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