paper or plastic...

**Sara Noel** · 01-17-2005, 10:49 PM

plates?

For those that purchase plates, do you buy paper because they're cheaper or plastic so you can wash and use them again?

**Sara Noel** · 01-17-2005, 10:51 PM

On a similar note...brown paper bags for lunch, reuse plastic grocery bags, or plastic lunchboxes?

**kimmee** · 01-17-2005, 10:52 PM

I buy paper because they are biodegradeable - but I buy plastic Solo cups cuz they will last going through the dishwasher for a year or more.

**bamamomto4** · 01-17-2005, 11:22 PM

I buy the foam kind. There not plastic or paper. Know what I'm talking about lol

I do buy the solo cups as Kimmie does,cause you can reuse those things forever it seems

Steve and Katie have the insulated type lunchboxes

**kimmee** · 01-17-2005, 11:52 PM

oh I missed about the lunchboxes - we use the insulated zipper bags too and the little thermos things and freezer dealies inside.

**SewCrafty** · 01-18-2005, 04:55 AM

Paper plates (finally convinced Jack on that one!

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styrofoam cups for when he has a cold like now. I don't use them as I don't like them.

And I hate what they do to our landfills!

**duckduckgoose007** · 01-18-2005, 11:39 AM

None of the above

**sherrykay** · 01-18-2005, 02:02 PM

I buy paper plates, I figure the whole point of even buying them is so you DON'T have to wash them, you just toss them when you are done. Although I buy cheap and in bulk. Those are for my lazy days!!

**paelthom** · 01-18-2005, 02:26 PM

Paper plates and cups and reusable lunch boxes here. The only time we buy the plastic ones if we are having a big cookout outdoors and you may end up balancing your plate on your lap. In that case, the plastic does better.

**Telephus44** · 01-18-2005, 07:39 PM

I don't buy plates - I have a nice set of "good plates" and a cheap plastic set from DH's bachelor days if I'm worried about them breaking or not coming home.

For grocery bags, I always use plastic. I can re-use them around the house as trash bags, or cat litter bags, and when I get too many I can take them back to the grocery store to be recycled.

**daddys3chicks** · 01-18-2005, 08:28 PM

We buy paper to use sometimes. We don't buy plastic or foam cups. Both DD's get a lunchbox at the beginning of the school year, and I have one for the 2 days I work at the preschool. I do have some paper lunch bags. I found an entire package of them in the trash at church when I was cleaning - someone had only used 2 or 3 and thrown the package out wrapper and all! There was nothing wrong with them so I brought them home!

**mommy2many** · 01-18-2005, 09:26 PM

We don't use paper or plastic, we always use real dishes. Sometimes guests will be searching for the paper plates and when i tell them i don't have any I get the look LOL

My children all use soft cloth lunch boxes they have had the same one for two years. It's not an enviromental thing for us it's just a money thing.

**Lori Biever-Launder** · 01-19-2005, 12:53 AM

I don't use disposable plates except when I send food home with someone. I buy the heavy paper kind and a pack of forty eight lasts me about four years!

I refuse to use paper for any regular use. I have a bunch of old Tupperware plates I use for every day as well as some regular cheap stoneware. I am going to replace them this year--they are chipping left and right.

DSs use soft sided luch boxes filled with Tupperware containers. DH uses a hard sided luch box (a small cooler) and Tupperware containers. I take my stuff in Tupperware and stick it in the fridge at work.

I use paper grocery bags for garbage bags and use any plastic ones I get for cleaning the cat box and picking up after my dog.

**Darlene** · 01-19-2005, 09:42 AM

Paper plates for lunch and they pop into those plastic paperplate holders, lol.If it's a hot lunch, real plates.
Nicole takes her lunch in an insulated bag.
Mark buys lunch at school but carries his lunch for work in a plastic grocery bag.
Paper cups in bathroom and dh takes paper cups to work to use with his thermos of water in the summer.

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