paper plates or doing dishes / wife advice

JimPDX wrote:
My wife and I just got a travel trailer and we are about to take our first weekend trip.

My question is should we be using paper plates or dishes, which would conserve water the most.

My opinion is that paper plates are better, particularly because I don't use many at all and I hate doing dishes.

My wife thinks that it is wasteful to use paper plates but less wasteful to do the dishes and reuse the dishes that she got.

I think that I'm right but there's absolutely no point in me trying to tell my wife that paper plates are better. Particularly here, she is concerned about "conservation."

When I suggested reusing gray dishwasher for toilet water, she didn't wanna do that so she's not that in to conservation, just as a how far will she go to really conserve barometer.

So can someone please either explain to me why I am wrong and / or please tell me how I can somehow explain to my wife that paper plates are better and also how can I really impress upon her the importance of not getting food waste in the sink because in my opinion she's just being way too cavalier about this whole thing. So normally I'd just let her do whatever she wants because that's the easiest way to live life, but still I just can't deal with the idea of food particles getting in my water lines.

Seems to me your attitude towards "food particles in the water lines" is just as bad as her attitude towards "reusing gray dishwater for toilet water". Anything that goes down the kitchen sink goes into the gray tank - not the water lines. You'd have to dump food down the fresh water tank to get it in the water lines.