Plastic utensils
thinning out my collection of used plastic ware.
mostly forks, some spoons, and a couple of knives.
take one or all!
This may come as a surprise, but used plastic forks aren’t really desirable. I think you need to come up with some sort of compelling back story for these if you want someone to take them. Let me write your ad. Here are a few choices:
1. Emphasize their condition.
Used plasticware. Second owner. Bought from little old lady who seemed very nice and said these were used only on Sundays, for cake after church.
2. Portray them as offering some extra benefit.
Have you ever tasted Kobe beef? Probably not – it’s prohibitively expensive. We bought a pound for our Fourth of July barbecue, and ate it with these utensils. May still have small scraps of dried Kobe here and there.
3. Describe some sort of celebrity connection.
Plasticware last used by craft services on the set of Twilight: New Moon. I cannot guarantee that Pattinson, Lautner and Stewart had these in their mouths, but I can’t guarantee they didn’t, either.
If they threw in some used McDonald’s soft drink cups, I might have gone for it.
I remember briefly in the mid 80s that my grandmother tried to do this. She also had a whole bunch of margarine containers that she used as bowls and gallon ice cream containers for cookie jars.
Yie, what is it with little old ladies and plasticware? My grandmother does that! And she tries to unload it on me when her cupboard gets too full of it! Oh, and it’s not just plastic. Last time, it was (and how she managed to wash them out, I’ll never guess) a bunch of those little glass bottles from the plug in Glade scented oil diffusers! She had them filled with everything from mouthwash and little bits of hand soap/lotion to the one she had decided to use as a toothpick holder!
Hey, Kate from Iowa, I am also from Iowa.
And now I’m really not sure which one of is which.
Who-hoo! Now we just need another of us and we can open the black hole…
Is she a Jewish!?
“Hi. I’d like that one black knife, please.”
These will be the new silverware (plasticware) at the INAD compound. Thus preventing us from gouging out our own brains through our ears.
Once I used a spork, I’ll never use a seperate spoon or fork again.
If you think a spork is awesome, you need to try the sporknife. Truly, the Gods fear our incessant genetic tinkering; one day we will shake the pillars of Heaven with our hybrid utensils!
Just what everyone wants; someone else’s USED plasticware.
Woah dingy!
Well, ya know how it goes, forks go out hiding in pizza boxes, spoons get et by the garbage disposal, and before you know it, you’re plumb outta utensils and your kids are eating with their hands like savages. I’m in the market for a new set, heavy on the forks, please. This looks like it just might be the ticket – just in time to set my holiday table and impress the out-laws. I think I’ll give this Lister a little ringy-ding in the morning, hope they’re not gone by then, fingers X’d!
Here’s what catches my eye- “take one or take all.” I’m so happy, because I REALLY want to eat this pie, but I DON’T feel like cleaning utensils. BUT WAIT, what if I drop it? There’s no “take two” option…
On the way down and when it lands, some of the old crumbs might actually fall off and you’ll come out with a cleaner fork/knife w/e.
I get my plastic wear from Kentucky Fried Chicken. All in one neat little package. That way when I put them out I don’t have to worry which one goes on the left.
Question: Why do I have to take “one or all”? Can’t I take two or three?
I’ll just go away and cry now…NOT.
what, not wrapped individually in plastic?? no thanks!
You really outdid yourself on this one. Bravo.
location; your local wendy’s. why would i go to this random guys house if i could go to a mcdonalds and ask for a fork every now and then
I love that she’s “thinning out” her “collection of used plastic ware”. She has a collection of used plastic ware and she isn’t giving it away altogether. She has considered which pieces are least desirable (those are the ones that you’ll get) and is keeping the best ones for herself. Until some day they’ll be worn out enough for you, but still too good to be thrown away.