"By the Piece": Everyone's flour, meal, sugar, etc. comes in paper now (more for the landfill). The days of the pretty cloth sacks are long go. My inlaws (farmer) died not long ago, and we are still trying to clear out the estate (take what we want; sell the rest). I've discovered a huge steamer trunk there full of feed, flour, whatever sacks that evidently Mom never got around to doing anything with.
There's so much to do there, that I quickly closed the trunk. I knew if I got into it then, I'd spend a whole day or more just going through sacks and looking and thinking about what I'll do/make with them. Eventually, I'll just bring the trunk home--as loaded.