The Alternative to Ungreen Plastic Disposable Cups at Parties

In another episode of “Writing Fiction is Tough And Here’s How We Entertain Ourselves Rather Than Staring At The Monitor”, I decided to go No Impact Man one better on the subject of reusable cups, which I posted about below, and VIDEOBLOG an alternative to landfill fodder plastic cups, like for parties, which may not be a reusable alternative (though in version 2 of the video I say it is) and may not be aesthetically optimum but is still not plastic and involves making creative use of otherwise trash items at hand, and since it will be a while before everyone is carrying around their own Mason jars I thought, hey, who doesn’t love easy crafts and you can even enlist the help of partiers.

This presentation was done totally on the wing on a cheap digicam, not a videocam, so forgive the quality, the lack of light, the crappy sound (turn it up) and the entirely unscripted innocence.

As this is our first real attempt at videoblogging, and son H.o.p. liked the second version, while I liked the first, I present both videos below, however self-indulgent this may seem.


Lousy Videoblog on Making an Origami Cup 1
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Lousy Videoblog version 2 on making an Origami Cup
Uploaded by idyllopus

Update: If DailyMotion is slow loading in, the second video is also up at Youtube.

Disclaimer: We like green. I don’t think we’ve ever purchased a bag of plastic cups for personal use except for a birthday party for Marty a couple of years ago and my birthday party in June, so please go gentle on us for having a bag of leftover plastic cups in the kitchen. (Of course, all this may mean is that we don’t entertain much, and when we do it’s on a very small scale.)


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4 responses to “The Alternative to Ungreen Plastic Disposable Cups at Parties”

  1. jose Avatar
    jose

    if it’s only good for 15 seconds, that’s not a very good cup, is it? Since you already have them, you could just reuse the plastic cups for other parties you have, instead of throwing them away.

  2. Susan Och Avatar

    You hold on to your drinks for longer than 15 seconds? What kind of party is that?

  3. SKG Avatar
    SKG

    Speaking of party sperrits, Susan Och, what’s your progress on that corn squeezin’s project you mentioned a while back? I need to use up a store of corn syrup, myself, and was hoping to trade recipes. You may have noticed, I’ve been very generous on the Colin Beavan site sharing solid advice about personal care products that will SAVE THE EARTH (this despite all the naysaying of the shampoo-blinded nose-thumbers on that site and so many others). How about it: can I trade my recipe for shampoo that will make you a saint and get you into heaven alongside Kant and them for your recipe for white lightning?

  4. Idyllopus Avatar

    Jose – My birthday party was June 23rd. I think it’s safe to say I’ve been holding onto the cups or else I’d not have been able to make the vid. In fact, they’re occuping needed space in my closet-sized (literally) kitchen. As we don’t often hold parties they are now candidates for furniture.

    Susan – We didn’t serve white lightning. This makes for less enthusiastic drinkers. We were sorrily remiss in this regard, and bad hosts, and I kick myself for it daily.

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