Paper plates on reality TV?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We are using paper plates because our dishwasher broke. It has nothing to do with your “class.”

Why can't you wash a plate in the sink? It has to do with your laziness, not class.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In a recent discussion with other moms I learned most people run their dishwasher every day. One family with 4 kids runs theirs 2x a day. This and the paper plates don’t compute for me.

The only paper product we use is toilet paper. We have paper towels available, but mostly use cloth rags. We have cloth napkins, China plates and glass drinking cups. We have 2 elementary age kids and we still have every plate and bowl from the set we received at our wedding 13 years ago - none broken. We get takeout once a week and we unpackaged it and place the food on plates. We run the dishwasher every 2nd or 3rd day and no one in my house washes dishes more than 10 min a day and we never go to bed with a dirty dish in the sink. I cook dinner from scratch 3-4 nights a week and make baked oatmeal, muffins, or pancakes for breakfast a few times a week and usually make cookies or another baked good once a week for dessert. I don’t understand how people (who are not on a Tv show) are generating so many dishes that paper seems necessary.

We don’t use paper plates except on isolated rare occasions (I do keep paper plates on hand if someone is really sick, or occasionally for pizza night or similar) I think it’s much nicer to eat on real dishes, but how on earth do you go 2-3 days between running the dishwasher with a family of 4? We run ours once a day and sometimes twice. I’m not criticizing, just genuinely wondering what model you have and if it fits a ton of stuff.

[Anonymous]

Maybe the show is sponsored by Dixie or Chinet?

[Anonymous]

OP here. Sorry to abandon the thread. Yes, as one PP said I’ve been watching Sister Wives and it was so dull that I got fixated on the paper plates. And then I thought of the Duggars and a bunch of other reality people who love their paper plates.

I only noticed because we use them for the pool and ran out recently before hosting friends. The other family didn’t have any at home, either, so we ate off napkins. On TLC reality shows the paper plates are really noticeable if you’ve recently run out of them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We are using paper plates because our dishwasher broke. It has nothing to do with your “class.”

Why can't you wash a plate in the sink? It has to do with your laziness, not class.

We do that as well. It helps to cut down on overall dishes though.

[Anonymous]

I never thought to use them on a daily basis, even when I didn't have a dishwasher. Occasionally for casual company, like a bbq. And we keep a stash just in case. But I think I've had the same stash since we moved into this house - about 6 years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We are using paper plates because our dishwasher broke. It has nothing to do with your “class.”

do you have a working sink?