use it up, wear it out

an interlibrary loan envelope and some of the places it has been
Originally uploaded by Meeteetse Branch Library.
make it do, or do without. . . . I learned that from my father, who was from Brooklyn/Vermont, but it works just as well in Wyoming, where we have many, many envelopes that have made many, many trips.
Let it not be said that we are frittering away the taxpayers’ money.