Un-Tie Knot In Plastic Bag

Oh, well in the US you can't at all....

I'm just saying, it's possible, and not hard.

 

^ the paper bags could be made more efficiently and economically with hemp as well.

Hell, same with the damn canvas bags

 

It's not 'hippy' to re-use plastic bags/not use them - it's common sense/what people that care, do.

 

Plastic bags are $.05 at the grocery stores here. Other places still give them, like Walmart and Giant Tiger. I have made lots of bags from my mister's old work pants. You can fill those suckers with canned goods and no breaking handles.

I got boxes of 50 dog poop bags at the dollar store that I used for scooping the cat box. They are biodegradable as well.

 

This is good to know.

 

we always used milk jugs. called it "voomping."

 

I just rip a new entry in it. I think I really only use plastic bags for fruit.

 

I think I'm the only one in this town that picks up my dogs crap... but plastic bags are a must have.

 

But do they flame as well when sat on a doorstep?

 

No, you need paper bags for that.

 

I was sure you'd have the answer.

 

i'm sure they do if you add gasoline.

or paint thinner for a more sustained burn.

 

^ kerosene

 

Sitting here tonight pondering the great HF, and coming across this appreciation thread for the all-trusty plastic bag...I wanted to also give a great shout-out to the purpose they have served in my life.

My mother has plastered/"insulated" the screen porch, an out side complete room but with good complete screen with thousands of these plastic bags and cardboard. Did you know you can break down big boxes and just do All Sorts Of Things. You can quite effectively stuff thousands of these bags in between the 2' X 4's that made up the porch and the screen on the outside and there being outside 2' X 4's also. If you lay the cardboard just right you can make this whole 5' X to 4' carboard wall All Around the Room. If you so choose to break down LOTS of big boxes just right and thousands of these bags. It might even be millions. yay for recycling. You needn't worry about them getting loose from here and bother pulluting any darn landfills nor inland seas. They won't make it past my mother unless you spirit it away they were never there.

She also enjoys stuffing them behind the stove, around the fridge, and anywhere, by God, you can stuff and poke them into!:smash:

So, there is my deepest thought to plastic bags. They have certainly served a "higher purpose" here. I've gotten very "zen". yay

Oh, and nothing anybody could ever EVER say (such as they are going to Start a Fire laying on something hot like the stove) can change my mother's love affair with these plastic bags. I slip and make them disappear, when I can, around the stove. It's a sickness.

 

my mom has a nice handmade mat/rug like this except its a lot bigger

she uses it under the rocking chair to stop the hardwood floor from squeaking so much

100% plastic shopping bags

 

I LOVE THAT!!!

I am totally serious! That would be awesome to see something to happen to these except for to provide a very FLAMMABLE outer layer, surrounded by wood. But it keeps it warmer as a padding, you see.

But where would she get them? They would be extremely sturdy I bet. But I like them.

 

is that a little face in that cup? a little square face?

 

I don't know how to tell you this but my boyfriend's name is Plastic Bag.

I love him.:love:

 

Lynn, I've seen instructions for making all sorts of thing out of these plastic bags. They are cut into strips and crocheted, I believe.