ma would like you to know that she does not waste paper

Ever. In a long-ago previous life as a retail shop girl, Ma once helped construct a window display that featured reams and reams of spotless pink paper. When it came time to take the display down, Ma watched in horror as the paper was almost tossed into the garage.

Ma dutifully rescued the paper from a dumpstery fate and, to this day, writes notes on lovely, pale-pink paper.