5 cents for a plastic grocery bag? Any easy patterns recommended?
11-07-2012, 12:49 PM
#61
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Our area charges for bags also. It's annoying because the plastic bags are so thin that they tear apart if you put very much in them.
I do like the Trader Joe bags best, they are a plastic coated something or other, nice and big. They hold much more then what a plastic bag holds. Simplicity has some good grocery totes also. I picked up the patterns when Joanns has them for 99 cents. I use the vegetable bags to bag all my meat also. Nothing goes into the totes without a bag of some type. Then I use the veggie bags for scooping the cat's litter and for big food scraps, bones etc that I don't put down the disposal when I preparing meals.
I've seen patterns for veggie bags out of wide tulle, with a drawstring top-I've never actually seen wide tulle but I'm sure it's around someplace.
It does become second nature to carry bags in the car and into every store when you shop. I visited my parents over the summer and had my reusuable bags with me, Mom was saying , "We don't do that here. Just be normal and get the bags like everyone else."
I do like the Trader Joe bags best, they are a plastic coated something or other, nice and big. They hold much more then what a plastic bag holds. Simplicity has some good grocery totes also. I picked up the patterns when Joanns has them for 99 cents. I use the vegetable bags to bag all my meat also. Nothing goes into the totes without a bag of some type. Then I use the veggie bags for scooping the cat's litter and for big food scraps, bones etc that I don't put down the disposal when I preparing meals.
I've seen patterns for veggie bags out of wide tulle, with a drawstring top-I've never actually seen wide tulle but I'm sure it's around someplace.
It does become second nature to carry bags in the car and into every store when you shop. I visited my parents over the summer and had my reusuable bags with me, Mom was saying , "We don't do that here. Just be normal and get the bags like everyone else."
11-07-2012, 12:53 PM
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Originally Posted by GrannieAnnie
I gotta do this------------think about this bacteria!
Where in your car do you put your groceries? In the seat? Who sat there last and what kind of germs did he/she have? Even worse, what if a dog's butt was the last occupant?
Do you put your groceries in the trunk? Where you put your trash on the way to the dump? Where you put the fertilize for the garden? Where you put the flat of spring plants?
And bacteria on a washable grocery bag makes you crazy?
Where in your car do you put your groceries? In the seat? Who sat there last and what kind of germs did he/she have? Even worse, what if a dog's butt was the last occupant?
Do you put your groceries in the trunk? Where you put your trash on the way to the dump? Where you put the fertilize for the garden? Where you put the flat of spring plants?
And bacteria on a washable grocery bag makes you crazy?
11-07-2012, 12:55 PM
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Originally Posted by charity-crafter
Our area charges for bags also. It's annoying because the plastic bags are so thin that they tear apart if you put very much in them.
I do like the Trader Joe bags best, they are a plastic coated something or other, nice and big. They hold much more then what a plastic bag holds. Simplicity has some good grocery totes also. I picked up the patterns when Joanns has them for 99 cents. I use the vegetable bags to bag all my meat also. Nothing goes into the totes without a bag of some type. Then I use the veggie bags for scooping the cat's litter and for big food scraps, bones etc that I don't put down the disposal when I preparing meals.
I've seen patterns for veggie bags out of wide tulle, with a drawstring top-I've never actually seen wide tulle but I'm sure it's around someplace.
It does become second nature to carry bags in the car and into every store when you shop. I visited my parents over the summer and had my reusuable bags with me, Mom was saying , "We don't do that here. Just be normal and get the bags like everyone else."
I do like the Trader Joe bags best, they are a plastic coated something or other, nice and big. They hold much more then what a plastic bag holds. Simplicity has some good grocery totes also. I picked up the patterns when Joanns has them for 99 cents. I use the vegetable bags to bag all my meat also. Nothing goes into the totes without a bag of some type. Then I use the veggie bags for scooping the cat's litter and for big food scraps, bones etc that I don't put down the disposal when I preparing meals.
I've seen patterns for veggie bags out of wide tulle, with a drawstring top-I've never actually seen wide tulle but I'm sure it's around someplace.
It does become second nature to carry bags in the car and into every store when you shop. I visited my parents over the summer and had my reusuable bags with me, Mom was saying , "We don't do that here. Just be normal and get the bags like everyone else."
Generally speaking, people here enjoy seeing my bags. Except for one checker who looked inside and out of every single bag I had looking for the price tag. @@ She continued looking even after I told her I'd made every one of them. "It's my job!"
11-07-2012, 01:21 PM
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Connecting Threads is now selling plasticized fabric for use in raingear. Possibly it would make good bags. I wait until I go to Canada each year and get my grocery bags in the supermarkets. They sell all sizes from 79 cents to $1.
11-07-2012, 01:26 PM
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I made some last summer from old t-shirts. Cut the sleeves off, cut the neck hole bigger and stitch across the bottom. T-shirt fabric won't ravel and if you have shirts you really like, now you get to show them off. I know I got the pattern off the internet somewhere you could try Googling it.
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11-07-2012, 01:28 PM
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Originally Posted by GrannieAnnie
I gotta do this------------think about this bacteria!
Where in your car do you put your groceries? In the seat? Who sat there last and what kind of germs did he/she have? Even worse, what if a dog's butt was the last occupant?
Do you put your groceries in the trunk? Where you put your trash on the way to the dump? Where you put the fertilize for the garden? Where you put the flat of spring plants?
And bacteria on a washable grocery bag makes you crazy?
Where in your car do you put your groceries? In the seat? Who sat there last and what kind of germs did he/she have? Even worse, what if a dog's butt was the last occupant?
Do you put your groceries in the trunk? Where you put your trash on the way to the dump? Where you put the fertilize for the garden? Where you put the flat of spring plants?
And bacteria on a washable grocery bag makes you crazy?
11-07-2012, 01:37 PM
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Go to lazygirl.com. There is a one hour bag there. froggyintexas
Originally Posted by coopah
My DS lives in the PNW and is charged 5 cents for each plastic grocery bag every time he shops! Does anyone know of a bag pattern that is quick and easy, but would be good for groceries? He eats a lot of fresh produce (dunno if they charge for those bags, yet). I'm thinking the bags should be able to be reversed, so they could be used more than once before washing. I know the pollution arguments for not using plastic, but now he'll be using water, detergent, and energy to wash these bags. Sometimes what seems to make sense...doesn't.
11-07-2012, 02:02 PM
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The Stop & Shop stores here will give you 5 cents back for each reusable bag you use. We can also use plastic bags at no charge. I use empty dog food bags that I cut up and serge for reusable grocery bags which I wipe out using a bleach wipe. The cloth bags I just throw in the wash.
11-07-2012, 04:14 PM
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I do the same, shop once a month and end up with lots of plastic bags. I went and bought small garage cans with lids for our bathrooms and for the kitchen, that the plastic bags fit in just perfect, so now I never have to buy garbage bags, just recycle my grocery bags.
11-07-2012, 05:50 PM
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Guess I have lots of bags with lots of bacteria 'cuz mine haven't ever been washed!! I did wash one when I something spilled on it...hand wash???? Not in my lifetime---threw that baby in the machine with a bunch of jeans and it came out just fine.
Again, at our stores these bags sell for 99cents and are worth it.
Again, at our stores these bags sell for 99cents and are worth it.
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