Paper Plate Poverty

The joke plays on the stereotype of people who are very poor. Washing and reusing paper plates, which are meant to be disposable, is an exaggeration that highlights the character's supposed financial hardship.

• Poverty
• Recycling
• Poor
• Short jokes

• You're so poor. You're just PO, you can't even afford the other O and R.
• You're so poor that when you drink water from a cup, people flick a coin into it.
• You're so poor, you use the same toilet paper every time you take a poop!
• You're so poor, you like postcards for food.