Up North

I use leftover floor tiles cut to size and cover with a pillowcase style sleeve. They are working out great and I have a lot left from projects I can get two out of one square

MinnieKat

I just use heavy cardboard.

ssgramma

The inner board from vinyl binders works well too. I get them at the dollar stores.

AgapeStitches

Plastic canvas works well and washes too if needed.

Scraps

What great ideas! My husbnad cuts a large sheet of acrylic to the sizes I need purchased from Loew's or Home Depot. For a beach bag size it is about $3 each.

mamaheath

Thanks everyone! I guess I need to go to the store as I have no of the items suggested. I am going to try the plastic canvis and cardboard from vinyl binders and see which works best for my bag and the weight of the contents.

luv2learn

Great idea!! Thanx. . . I have lots of these.

kwendt

I like my fabric purses and totes to be washable, so I use plastic canvas sheets found at thrift stores. They're flexible, but rigid enough, or it can be doubled. In the past, for similar projects: I've also used old worn out cutting mats, the 'travel' cutting boards (flexible plastic), inserts from supermarket bacon (well washed!), and $1 store plastic clip boards cut down with a router or dremal if I needed something perfectly rigid. The tops of broken plastic rubbermaid bins, or old food container lids. Another thought is to find the flexible plastic 3 ring notebooks at thrift stores...the ones where the covers are totally plastic and somewhat flexible. The regular notebooks are just plastic covered press board.. no good.

My husband has gone so far as to cut up plastic 2 litre bottles, flatten out the piece and tape to the stone floor, then turn the hair dryer on it until the heat get's it to lie flat on its own. He reshapes a lot of recycled things that way for his various boat and house projects.

Um...we like to repurpose and recycle where we can.

Marion Jean

I've used what I call "foam board" and cut it to size. I bought it at JoAnn's.

Shunem

Yes I use plastic canvas too---Pretty cheap at Hobby Lobby.