RE: First Thing's (?) First... logic don't enter into it

["Goldstein, Dan" <DGoldstein -at- DeusTech -dot- com>]

In this case, "to want" means "to be without; lack," and not the more common
meaning, "to desire greatly; wish for." In other words, if you don't waste
something, you won't run out of it.

(Definitions from the American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language,
Fourth Edition)

> You've just gotta know your idioms, or there's no solving 
> these debates...
> like for decades, I've been trying to convince my mom that 
> she's wrong by
> saying "Waste not, want not"... not the other way around. 
> Even though
> English is her second language, she keeps insisting that 
> her version is more
> logical... if you don't waste something, you won't want it 
> later when you run out.

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