Do you have any unusual household habits that seem so natural you don't think twice about them?
This is going back a few years, but I remember my good friend Sharon suggesting to my friend that they get us a set of dinner dishes as an engagement gift because we were using recycled containers (I think they were butter containers and the like.)
We didn't really mind using the recycled containers. Nowadays you could say were were being "green." But at the time, it was nice to receive our first official domestic gift.
But guess what!?!?! Come to find out, we STILL use butter containers on a regular basis! We use Country Crock and get it in the small tubs. We have a stack of those empty tubs in our cupboard and frequently use them for dry snacks - a handful of pretzels or dry cereal. I don't even think about it, but imagine I've gotten some weird looks from visitors and in-home employees the first time they saw me prancing around with a butter tub ;-).
And to those of you who bought me that first set of Corelle dishes, thank you for helping me into domestic adulthood. Now I use the butter containers because they're convenient, not because we can't afford real dishes ;-).
That's so funny, because I absolutely hate it when my husband washes the butter containers and puts them in our OVERFLOWING tupperware/plastic container cabinet! We also use Country Crock, but I purchase the LARGE tubs so they are the snack size, but since we have plenty of plastic I don't need the others!
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