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my parents = EFF nightmare!

MissyOlivePantsMissyOlivePants
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Ok...so we stayed at my parents house for the last week.  They use paper plates & napkins or paper towels for nearly every single meal... just to have less dishes to wash (no automatic dishwasher).  They have Correll plates & glass glasses.  We ate outside one night (hotdogs & s'mores) and they even used styrofoam cups!!!

YIKES!!! I couldn't keep my mouth shut about it, but no one seemed to care regardless of what I said.

I ended up serving myself on the regular plates & glasses and just washing them myself because I felt so guilty about using all that paper stuff.  It was hard enough that DD was in sposies all week.

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  • papiepapie member

    Wow!

    Until I came to the nest, I had no idea some people used paper plates in their homes. ??

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    lol sil came over and accidently spilled something while I was upstairs. ?I come down and she is wiping it up with?toilet?paper since she couldn't find the paper towels. ?I guess they don't use reusables ?*sigh*
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  • MissyOlivePantsMissyOlivePants

    I know! We only keep them on hand as hurricane supplies down here!

    Oh - and I should also mention that my mom had no issue throwing her styrofoam cup in the fire!!

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  • hamilton.jahamilton.ja

    My mom is the same way. When the whole family is together she will use paper plates and plastic cutlery to have less to clean up after. I can understand if she's at the beach but at home it seems wasteful to me. I never say anything because I would 100% be the only one to care and then I would be the only one to do the clean up afterwards if people said "Ok, lets use regular plates". Lame, but I don't want to wash up after 17 people by myself. It would be one thing if others pitched in but I don't think they would if I was the one who insisted, you know?

     I am bringing out CDs to my mom's house. No idea if she'll let us use them or not.... if she won't let me wash them there I will have to use disposables - we don't have enough for 5 days and I'm not up for hauling cloth laundry three hours in the car after it sits for 3 days before that. 

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  • thejennigirlthejennigirl

    Sounds like my mom's house too.

    She makes fun of my "real" glasses and my need to use "real" dishes & flatwear.  Add in the cloth napkins, and I always hear how I'm going to make it impossible for my future DIL's to live up to my standards.  And then she calls me a show off.

    :::rolls eyes:::

    I think it's a personal choice in your own home.  And only because I hate hearing snide comments about my choices.

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