Maksi

Thanks for the answer. :) This is what we do every dinner. So a sit down meal is just eating the normal way.

Barbm

we also have a compost bin. I also separate plastics, cardboard, etc. My goal someday is to be completely off the electric power grid. I want to have solar panels and a windmill. I can dream as these are quite costly.

pal

Maksi, most of us eat "the normal way" too. But when you have a lot of people over sometimes there isn't room for everyone to sit down at the table, so they help themselves to food, like a smorgasborg or a buffet or snacks, and they don't have a "sit down (at the table) meal"

littlehud

This is the kind of meal were always eat at the holidays. There just isn't enough table for everyone.

craftygma47

if we all used them we would use a lot less paper. The disposable diapers get me. People should go back to cloth diapers, towels, napkins.

Clothfiend

Think I remember reading somewhere that most of our landfills will eventually be composed of disposable diapers. It would have been a real luxury to have them when my four stairsteps were growing up, but such things weren't available then. However, I do remember there being something very comforting about taking those diapers off the line, folding them, and putting them in a stack next to the crib. Always made me feel good. In the winter, I hung them in the basement, or over the radiators - depending on where we were living.

Jingle

Disposible diapers absorb a lot more than cloth diapers. I wish they were around when my three kids were little, I would have used them. Grandkids don't get diaper rash with the disposibles. Poopy cloth diapers were no fun to clean.

sewjoyce

Yeah, poopy diapers were always so much fun to dip into the toilet to rinse when the water was barely above freezing.... :D

fireworkslover

This topic made me laugh as the same thing has happened at my house. We use terry cloth homemade napkins everyday, same as my Mom taught me to do. She's been a recycler from way back. Some of the ones I made 20 yrs. ago, finally got so threadbare, I threw them out a couple months ago. They were even too thin to go in the "ragbag". I do have more terry in a box, somewhere, to make more. I make my own double fold bias tape to sew on the edges. If I use a print that gives a solid color terry some bling, plus you can use different prints for different people and then they don't get mixed up. Sometimes napkins that match a tablecloth aren't very absorbant if they have too much polyester in them - maybe that's why people tend to not use them? Even if that's true, I still blot my mouth with them, since that is their purpose!

fireworkslover

When my sons were babies 24 years ago, I started out using disposable diapers and soon switched to cloth to save money. I too liked the feeling of folding those diapers and putting them in a stack next to the changing table and felt I was doing a "good thing for our earth". Rinsing them out in the toilet was a bit icky at first, but I quickly got used to it. Breast fed baby diapers clean up much easier too. My sons never had diaper rash. I was a stay at home Mom and this prob. wouldn't work if the baby is sent to a daycare center. I'm sure they expect to use disposable diapers.