paper plates or doing dishes / wife advice
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...
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We use paper plates, but not the thin ones... the Chinette "paper" plates, really thick ones that actually work. When I use the paper thin cheap ones, I always use like 5 or 6 at a time because they are so thin.
We also have plastic plates - as someone else posted, we put paper plates on the plastic ones sometimes for strength.
When we do dishes / utensil cleaning, we use a small bucket that fits in the sink to catch the wash water. Then we dump that in the toilet. It helps dumping the black tank with soapy water in it. Also keeps food particles out of the grey tank, which can make the grey tank stinky.
If you are "dry camping", without any sewer or grey tank dump at your campsite, you do need to stress this - the grey tank will fill up quickly if you aren't careful.
Dumping wash water in the toilet will extend how long before your grey tank will fill. Black tanks seem to last a long time before needing to be dumped.
We also have plastic plates - as someone else posted, we put paper plates on the plastic ones sometimes for strength.
When we do dishes / utensil cleaning, we use a small bucket that fits in the sink to catch the wash water. Then we dump that in the toilet. It helps dumping the black tank with soapy water in it. Also keeps food particles out of the grey tank, which can make the grey tank stinky.
If you are "dry camping", without any sewer or grey tank dump at your campsite, you do need to stress this - the grey tank will fill up quickly if you aren't careful.
Dumping wash water in the toilet will extend how long before your grey tank will fill. Black tanks seem to last a long time before needing to be dumped.
