Greener Life for Old Dishes

You love going to picnic's and potlucks, but you don't like that you are using so many paper plates and plastic silverware. You try to be environmentally conscious, but you still like to eat out with out worrying about loosing your good home dishes and cutlery.

Make a trip to your local thrift store. There you can pick up as many plates as you need, matching or not, for a song. You can also pick up silverware, knives and other needed gadgets. Now you can go out and not have to worry about loosing it. If it doesn't make it home, someone else can keep it and use it, or donate it so that someone else can use it.