Pocket Change: Pitching In for a Better World

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8 Shopping How Embarrassing Did you know that until a few hundred years ago buying a loaf of bread could start terrible rumors Usually rural women made all their bread at home and if neighbors saw a woman buying it they might whisper that she was too lazy to bake or that her bread was like a stone Until the 1800s families proudly made most of the things they needed to survive Now in many cultures families buy as much as they can How did we go from being embarrassed to shop to being proud of it It’s a long story And it started hundreds of thousands of years ago when humans first walked the Earth Pack It or Toss It Human beings or Homo sapiens as scientists call us have existed for more than 200,000 years And for 99 percent of that time we’ve wandered around following our food If sweet red berries Fingers crossed that the bread will turn out well otherwise people will start whispering about this 15th-century French woman A DAGLI ORTI BRIDGEMAN IMAGES Pssst Don't Tell Anyone chapter one