Useful while travelers and poor college kids... oh and trailer park trash.

iceman7

... or just spend the 99 cents and get on you can reuse over and over again without having to eat a yogurt first (sorry, but for anyone with kids - you'll know this won't last more than one (messy) use). So this is where the eco movement is at the moment? No, thanks.

bitfactory

[consumerist.com]
Looks like someone's gonna get sued...

Angryrider

@iceman7: Throwing them away without repurposing them is better? I use yogurt containers all the time as ink wells or rinsing water for ink/watercolor.

DogHead

How long are the cups useful for consuming or using for food items? Most plastic items start to degrade after a certain amount of time. Knowing that I wouldn't want my kid to go anywhere near something that is going to leech toxins into their system.

etnie21

This is so ghetto, I'm practically speechless.

Deprong Mori

How many yogurt containers still come w/lids? Except for the 2 lb containers I get, they all seem to have foil lids.

@etnie21: What toxins? Unless you are reusing bleach or cleaning chemical containers, what toxins are in plastic? The much emailed-about-but-imaginary dioxins? True, most "kiddy" pools are coated with a small amount of cyanide to prevent mold growth, but they don't do that to food containers.

Git Em SteveDave

Lifehacker should allow voting or something for recommendation to remove an article. Some things are just so lame its making the site look bad.

joeny1980

not to mention, there is a difference between a straw stuck through a hole and a sippy cup. a sippy cup has no straw, just a little protrusion with tiny holes in it--the kid doesn't have to suck. i think part of the point of it is to teach them how to drink out of a regular cup. a straw won't do that. and I bet it would lead to lots of burping too.

zahava

There is a fine line between being eco-minded and frugal, and trying to repurpose trash like a crazy homeless MacGuyver.

rscotta

@joeny1980: I agree. If its a slow post day, then its a slow post day. no need to fill the awkward silence with useless trash.

holymogwai

@holymogwai: Has there been a article about hacking the snowstorm yet?

Git Em SteveDave

Thank you Kevin, I have a really low budget due to disability and four beautiful, messy, destructive angels for children. Some of us appreciate reusable throwaways that no one will see anyhow...

JeannieGrrl

Indeed, a sippy cup is quite different from a straw. The decent sippy cups (Playtex I think) are made of tough plastic, have a screw lid and those cool one-way valves (like a squeezy ketchup bottle). The child can drop them and tip 'em upside down will little risk of liquid-related catastrophe. I challenge the yoghurt pot to match that. Also, I'm fairly sure that such things are considered single-use food-grade containers, and they don't hold much liquid anyway.

No.. there are a million better ways to reuse a yoghurt pot, many of which have been already devised in years past by people who needed to contain items, draw a circle, make a string telephone etc..

rollog60

These dang things leak like hell! Now my kids have flavor aid stains all over their brand new potato sacks.

krewl