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Growing up my mom had hundreds of houseplants. Every spring she would prune them back so they would become bushier. For years, actually for several decades, she took those clippings to the elementary school and shared them with the students. For several days before she came teachers would have students rinse out and save their milk cartons. Every student got two or three cuttings from different plants for them to take home and grow. (We had about 60 kids in K-6. It was a small town.) Each year mom would have students tell her about how the plant they got from the previous year was growing. Mom started this when she had kids in the school, but they loved her coming in and she loved sharing so she continued it for years after we were all grown.