What is the point of a place mat? Great Mom says they're to catch crumbs, they help keep the table clean. OurDad thinks this is great-- as long as said place mats aren't adorned with idyllic settings for fluffy pink kittens-- you don't have to wipe the table.
However, GreatMom disagrees. Of course you have to wipe the table, and the place mats. This is where the GirlChild and I agree with OurDad. If the place mats are for protecting the table from sloppy eaters, like OurDad, fine then there a are just place mats and not the whole table to clean. This makes sense. But GreatMom insists that the table still needs to be wiped after dinner in addition to cleaning the place mats.
So what are the place mats for?!
We need a answer to this one before were expected to do our share of housework here.
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I really don't get the whole place mat thing. I think it's really there to actuate some formal dining setting--purely aesthetic with no relation to the the hygiene of our dining room table.
I just want someone to admit the truth about the place mat, and I'll stop arguing the point. If She wants them for aesthetic reasons I can live with that, but I just can live with the LIE.
Men of America you must unite against this great and unbearable dining room place mat conspiracy.
I was thinking that place mats are more important when you're using a nice tablecloth of some sort .. the place mats would protect the tablecloth from stains ...
On a table without tablecloths, the place mats could protect the table from watermarks, etc.. or, what dirt said above ;)
Ultimately, you're not going to win this one, SD, and you know it :P
So basically you're saying there's no place mat conspiracy, and I'm just paranoid?
They are for decoration.
Maybe so Mel, but Dirt and Marty seem to be putting up a good argument against me.
Wikipedia... I'm going to edit that entry right now. I've got that PhD thing they gotta let me edit anything I want!
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