What do you do with plastic bags?

I never thought of using the thinner produce bags. Are they easier to work with, or do they tear more easily?

That's a cool idea. I re-use my grocery bags as trash bags for my bathroom waste basket, or for storing things. I will also scoop my litter daily into a plastic bag to put in the trash to reduce the stink. The produce bags will sometimes be used as a double bag when freezing. I'll put the item first in a zip lock bag then in a produce bag. When I get too many I will bring a bunch of them back to the store and put them in the recycling bin at the store. I plan to soon get some tote bags for all the dry items such as boxes and cans. But I will still use plastic bags for the cold, wet, and frozen items. This way I will still have some plastic bags to use around the house.

yes, i was going to suggest a tote bag out of bags. in fact, i even saw a library book on this very subjet (someone was pretty smart in writing it!) i gives you different patterns for different styles of bags, all made from plastic bags!

I use plastic bags for all my trash and some carrying other products, like beverages and foods, when I go somewhere. My grocery stores have come up with an incentive to take 2 cents off for every plastic bag you bring at the checkout, even if it's not the grocery stores plastic bags. I also make paper bags into homemade gift bags. Recently, I decorated the paper bags with cut outs of colored coloring sheets out of different coloring books. My son and my spouse and I all enjoyed coloring them. We used the homemade gift bags to store all of the little gifts for my son's best friends 4th birthday. We put bubbles, 3 coloring books, a pack of crayons, an 8 pack juicy juice juice boxes, apple jacks (one of his favorite cereals), cheetos (one of his favorite snacks), and 1 box scooby doo fruit snacks (one of his favorite snacks). We hoped the little boy liked his gift because we have yet received a thank you note or thank you email from his mother.

i agree that.. we shall reuse it... but some poeples were lazy to do like did you do.. what about make else like lamp-housing

Wow! That is really creative! I would of never thought to do something like that. I use reusable cloth bags when I do my grocery shopping so I do not have a lot of plastic bags around. If we do have some in the house, using them for a bathroom garbage can bag is as creative as I get sadly. You should look into selling some of those recycled creations!

That is beautiful utilisation of plastic bags, i will also try that. Generally I keep on using the plastic bag as much as I can then later when it becomes torn and worn after multiple uses I give it to recycle man who is regular in collecting the plastic in our area.

I use them as trash bags for the small trashcans around my house. On rare occasions, I may take a name-brand bag (e.g.: Walmart, Target) and put in a return item that I'm returning to the store. I also use them to carry my library books in (since I get a stack of books at a time). I keep some spare in my car trunk in case I need a bag for whatever reason (e.g.: busted groceries, used motor oil bottles, etc.)

wow, you're so creative! In our house, we save it for our trashcans. The black trashbags here are expensive. Plastic bags here are given freely whenever we buy anything at all. So at home we save it and use it for our trashes, our things and so on. These plastic bags can also be sold to junkshops and are recycled into something more useful. The harder, nicer plastics can be made into nicer bags.

We use them to line our bathroom and office trash cans. I also use them when I am sorting out papers or going through clothing. When I am going through papers as soon as the bag is filled up with trash I am done. When I am sorting clothes they make a great "get rid of" bag. We also don't really have a "diaper" bag so we usually use grocery bags.

Thats a cool idea. I would love to see pictures when your done. I use the bags to put trash in. And I also use them to put my products in when locals buy them.

You're very creative and artistic to actually think that. It was quite good to used as that,not to mention it was profitable too. However, I don't think I can do such thing. You see, I don't know how to crochet or have a patience learning it. So, I just re-used the plastic bags and used as trash bags.

well what u do seems really nice and interesting. well i use them for storage or to throw my garbage. well i still dunno how to use them like u do. but vil try to do tht sometime. vil try to do some art out of it. gr8 work

Hi thebeaddooler, !Oh how beautiful it is, I have to try that one, you are very clever. I use my bags for the bins in the house, "Gees" what a waste when you make thins with it. Keep going girl. Love Tamarafireheart

Oh I wish you had a photo of the clutch. I remember a woman who used bread bags to make rugs. They were really practical. She worked in a school cafeteria and brought home the empty bread bags. I use canvas bags for my groceries. The few plastic bags I do collect are given to one of my clients. They use them to put soiled disposable adult diapers and underpads in.

Plastic bags come in very handy for cleaing up when my husband takes the dog out. Without them we'd have to buy bags to clean up after the do, and why do that i you get all those free plastic bags, anyway?

i am saving them to use for my baby's dirty diapers when she is born.

That is really neat! I have seen how to do that on sites like craftster.org but I am not very good at crocheting nor do I have the time though I wish I could! Instead I just resuse them like crazy. I wrap things in them (they are really good for packing stuff like glass or breakables!) I use them as garbage bags and also for taking things from one place to another.

That is to cool! You should put a couple of them on e-bay and sell them. I have lots of plastic bags that i could send you. Make the tote bags big enough to put groceries in and you could make a killing. I just bought 12 of the cloth bags from walmart but yours are so much cuter.

My bags get used for stinky diapers! Not a very creative use, but it serves it's purpose. Love the idea of making bags out of bags...you must be very creative beaddoodler!