Tightwad-in-Training

As I was emptying our kitchen trash the other day, I pulled a new trash bag out of the box and shook to open it as always.

N walked by at that moment and commented, "Mama, you look just like the trash guy at school right now."

I tried not to be offended while inquiring as to what she meant.

"Oh," she said, "he gets all the trash cans ready in the lunch room, so the kids can throw away their trash after lunch."

"I see," I murmured.

N wandered nonchalantly into the living room as I finished putting the new bag in the trash can and slid it under the sink.

A few minutes later, I heard from the living room, "Oh but not me.  I like to save my baggies."

I took a moment to think about it, and I realized that every day since the beginning of school she has saved every single ziplock baggie that I have sent with her to school.

Apparently she has observed her fanatic tightwad mother washing lightly-used ziplock baggies to be used a second time.

I looked in her lunchbox today, and sure enough:

All four empty baggies returned (plus a few extra pretzels that she didn't finish).

Am I wrong to take a small amount of pride in the fact that my daughter is showing tightwad tendencies at an early age?  (Or perhaps she's just a budding environmentalist.)