Last time A. went camping with the kids, he bought a sleeve of those big red Solo cups for the gallons of milk and lemonade he kept in the cooler. When he got home, I collected all of those and washed them to use again.
I used one of them on the Fourth of July to give the son home with me a very patriotic-looking watermelon slushie. After he finished his slushie, he started to throw the Solo cup away. I stopped him and told him I would wash it to use again. He was incredulous.
"Mom. Seriously? I have never heard of anyone re-using a Solo cup."
Really? I mean, is that really that strange? They're thick plastic! They're easy to wash! Why wouldn't you re-use it?
He was also shocked that I wash out Ziploc bags. And empty sour cream containers. The tray with top that A. brought home from a McDonald's breakfast. Pretty much any glass jars. And I sometimes save sheets of aluminum foil if they haven't gotten dirty, although I don't go so far as to wash those.
I even wash and re-use birthday candles.
2 comments:
I don't know if it's strange, but I do those things too. I also wash and save any styrofoam trays I get from packages of meat. They're good for sending leftovers home with guests.
I re-wash plastic straws and spoons from ice cream treats that we occasionally buy- I just reorganized my stash yesterday. I lost a few spoons when my kids took them in their lunchboxes for school, so I now keep any "disposable" ones we get. . It's funny, the boys remember to bring home the plastic spoons regularly, where my good spoons would disappear.
I do keep some glass jars, some plastic bags, ziplocs if they held dry stuff , and a few other things. Yogurt containers are good for small paint jobs. I don't wash out as much as I used to, but I think it's a smart move.
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