Reba McEntire has been a wealthy country music star for decades. That’s why it came as a massive shock yesterday when she revealed that she still washes and reuses solo cups at her home!
McEntire’s Solo Cups Tradition
“Sometimes I ask to use real plates instead of paper plates. But I love Solo cups,” McEntire, 68, said while appearing on Sunday Today. “I think that’s the main message of [my new lifestyle] book — don’t not have a party because everything doesn’t look right, or you didn’t have time to get this ready. Just go have fun.”
“I got that from Mama. At Thanksgiving, everybody wrote their name with a magic marker on their Solo cup, and that way you didn’t have to waste a lotta cups, gettin’ a new one, and you knew which one was yours,” she added. “And next Thanksgiving you look for your cup, ‘cause it’s still there.”
McEntire went on to confirm that she “still” washes the solo cups to have them ready to go for the next family parties.
Check out her full comments on this in the video below.
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McEntire’s Modesty
In this same interview, McEntire said revealed that even after all that she’s achieved in her career, she’s still uncomfortable with words like “icon,” “legend” and “trailblazer.”
“When I hear those words I think Loretta Lynn, Dolly Parton, Tammy Wynette, Barbara Mandrell, Anne Murray, Minnie Pearl, all of those women are the pioneers, the icons, the legends that I got to learn from,” McEntire explained.
When asked how she feels about being an inspiration to a younger generation of musicians, McEntire replied, “It’s a cool feelin’. It’s a huge responsibility because in my span that I get to do this, I wanna find ways of doin’ it better to make it easier on them.”
“Then it’s their responsibility to move forward, find a better way of doin’ something for the people comin’ up next behind them,” she continued.
McEntire also opened up about growing up in a singing family.
“We didn’t have radio in the car. It was four kids in the backseat, rough-housin’ and, you know — Mama would get us to sing to pass the time,” she said. “We were the Singing McEntires.”
“I wanted attention,” she added. “And I figured out the best kind of attention I could get was when I would sing. Not running barrels, not playing basketball, but singing. That’s when everybody kind of leaned forward and listened a little bit more.”
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McEntire’s Mother’s Advice
McEntire has never forgotten the advice her mother gave her before she performed for the first time at the age of 6.
“Well, Mama was encouraging me, saying, ‘It’ll be fine. You can do it.’ And so when you have that kind of help, you can just do about anything,” McEntire said.
She then said that her mother always told her she always told her that she “had the attention span of a 2 year old.”
“So, I have to have different things,” McEntire said. “I do something so long, do the same thing, I get bored.”
McEntire is a true living legend, whether she likes that term or not. In the end, it’s nice to see that all of the fame has not gone to her head enough to stop her from her solo cup tradition!
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