Something free at WDW?!

[jaccceee]

Take as much napkins as your purse can possibly hold. Do this every time you eat. I was knee high in napkins by the time we left. No joke, I measured, TO MY KNEE! They have Disney logos on them. I still have napkins from 3/00
Don't forget the shampoo bottles for your nieces and Gramma.

[PCgal]

oooooooooooo no please leave these napkins the trees had to die ,,,
instead go to have your pic done at innoventions its totally free

[jaccceee]

I promise I won't use any more than I normally use. I hide them now because back in 98 somebody in my household use about 20 of them to wipe a spill off the kitchen floor. The culprit was never found.

[Ecdubfan]

I manage a quick service restaurant. Napkins are our single largest paper expense. More than the sandwich wraps, fry cartons, etc. All of those handfulls add up costwise to a business. Lots of cost for lots of waste.

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[jgates]

Calm down. I'm hoping they are joking a little???

But seriously, if you do end up with extra napkins that are unused, at least take them and make use of them so they don't end up just wasted. We either end up two napkins short or with 3 extra when we hit McD's, etc. But we always make sure if we have extra we put them to good use since somewhere a tree was butchered to make them. I hate seeing people throw clean napkins in the trash. Drives me nuts.

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[MaybeFall]

I too have brought 'extra' napkins home from our vacations. I use them in my daughters school lunches as surprises occasionally. That way, the napkins are really used, and my daughter gets a lot of comments from the other kids.

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[mirthmaiden]

Although it may seem "free", higher cost of doing business (napkins, trash cleanup, etc.) equals higher ticket prices in the long run. WDW is a business. Nothing at WDW is free when you consider it that way.

I don't see a problem with someone taking an extra couple of napkins, but to take handfuls?

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[MartDM]

Yeah, I agree. If you HAPPEN to end up with 2 or 3 extra from what you grabbed when you got your food, by all means save them and put them to good use. That's better than trashing them. However, to help yourself to far more napkins than you need and take them with you as a "freebie" isn't really ethical because they are not meant for that.

We all end up paying in the end for folks who take advantage of these types of things.

[BethR]

Time to step in here! I think that this thread is stepping over the boundries of information and being pleasant.
Think that I will just lock this thread. The "information" is still there. People have been advised as to the problems with taking napkins. I think that the thread has run the course of its usefulness...

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