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It's super cute but the greasiness skeeves me, too.

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Originally Posted by CoyoteQuilts

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Originally Posted by Rhonda

Well, I used laundry detergent and hot hot water. If that doesn't get rid of the smell and residue nothing will. I think the greasy feel is just permeated into the plastic, the smell sure is. And I would be more bothered by the smell of the poyurethane than the dog food, if it didn't melt the plastic. Personally, why not just use them for trash and throw them out with it weekly. I have plenty of old fabric I could use as cuter tote bags than advertising dog food.

It appeals to me for the advertising. I collect old advertising and it is a graphic art kind of thing too. I may have to think about this. Maybe another type of bag would be better to use than the dog food but I love the idea. It is kind of a folk art sort of thing. I collect old cereal boxes and I have a Kelloggs box and old Oatmeal boxes etc. I love the advertising because advertising changes so fast. What was used when I was a kid and even when my kids were little is no longer being used. so it is collectible now! Companies go under or change management and that means constant changes in advertising. It is fun to collect!

Rhonda, Aren't these bags multi layered? Could you take just the top (advertisement) and stitch that to fabric? Do you think that that would stink too?[/quote]

I buy Beneful by Purina for my dogs and I just looked. It has a tinfoil inside which is glued to a thin cardboard layer and the outer layer is the advertising and it is seperated from the cardboard/foil. So yes the one I have anyway could be seperated and reuse the advertising part. That would negate the idea of an easy to do project but it wouldn't be hard to do just take longer.

The outer layer just smells like paper to me. So this one does't stink.

She used OL Roy and that is a differant company so the bag is probably differant.

Maybe there are just some things that are NOT meant to be recycle---- old underwear, used toothbrushes, and dog food bags. LOL
It is cute though.

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Originally Posted by donna873

I know plastic you can put in the freezer to get rid of the odor, wonder if it would work for that too.. I like the bag, a neat idea.

I've used baking soda in a freezer that had been sitting with rotten food in it. It worked! Borax 2000 is supposed to be good for gettting dog ordors out.

I buy cat and 2 kinds of dog food in bags like that. We just put trash in them.

Just think about all the dogs that would be following you home ,if you used it LOL ........Michele

Aahhh well one (wo)man"s trash is another's treasure!! LOL

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Originally Posted by Rhonda

Aahhh well one (wo)man"s trash is another's treasure!! LOL

Well, my dogs can't get enough of it. They keep smelling it and hanging around it. I had a Domino Sugar bag a couple weeks ago, plastic, should have done something with that. So we have recycled bacon plastic for templates, dog food bags for totes, now what's next? What can we do with a potato chip bag?

That is so funny - I'm sorry to hear that it didn't turn out as you had hoped :'(
I save my dog food bags for when I need to do yard work and have to get rid of stuff.

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Originally Posted by Yarn or Fabric

That is so funny - I'm sorry to hear that it didn't turn out as you had hoped :'(
I save my dog food bags for when I need to do yard work and have to get rid of stuff.

It turned out just as I had expected. Everyone else had great visions of a beautiful bag graced with a dog food label. I am like you, I load them with fallout from the laundry room and garage and anything else that needs to be trashed. My mother saved every margarine tub she ever bought and complained that she didn't have enough cupboard space. I had gone to visit her in Michigan and decided to help her clean out her cupboards. She had 2 huge trashbags full of them and was all offended when I asked if she ever used them. She was amazed at her gained space when I saved 2 containers of each size for her. I have been saving my Land O Lakes butter tubs. And one day when I started babysitting the neighbor baby I was looking for something for him to play with. Lo & behold out came the butter tubs. He had a ball stacking them and driving his cars into them. That's the limit of of my recycling; if I don't have immediate use for it, it goes.