Originally Posted by cosyquilter
I was at my local grocer's today, picking up Thanksgiving and saw: FLOUR IN REAL FLOUR SACKS! Sweet florals just like the ones my mom bought in the fifties! About $3 more than the paper sacks. If I had a place to store 25 lbs, I might have bought a bag. Maybe after Christmas I'll indulge, just for the memory.
We can get flour in flour sacks year-round. There is a mill near here that packages their flour in fabric all the time, and I have purchased it that way for a while now. Unfortunately, I don't use enough flour to get more than 2 or 3 bags a year.