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.

This is your first TT?
I assume you are young and have not learned the ways of "She who must be obeyed"!
First let me say that my wife says the same thing about being wasteful and I agree with you BUT...
You expressed your opinion and she over ruled you, game over!
I have found that after 43 years of togetherness, we are together because I was able to agree with her on most things and the things I didn't, I just keep to my self!
You hang in there and through the years, she will give you your opinion on occasion just so you feel like you are part of the decision making process!
We had the paper of china discussion also many times over the years. Once in a while she will buy the paper when we have the grandkids and kids over!
I told her once that we should get a dishwasher for the camper and she was all in But then when I told her that the dishwasher was the name of the dog I wanted to adopt, she over ruled me!
I know this did help you much in your debate with her but don't give up your in this fight and others like it for life!