do you use supermarket plastic bags for your toilet trash can?
By thelastegg
@thelastegg (27)
Romania
November 15, 2008 2:41pm CST
I once heard an influential radio DJ saying that people who use their supermarket bags for their toilet trash cans are some kind of red necks retards (excuse my language but I enjoy the power of suggestion these words bare). I tried to figure it out why, ever since, but did not succeed. what do you think? do you see any problem in doing that?
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7 responses
@Rustinas1 (438)
• United States
15 Nov 08
That just makes me really wonder about the DJ. He must have money to just throw around. Throw some this way, would you Mr. DJ. There's absolutely nothing wrong with using a grocery store bag for your bathroom, bed room, laundry room, and anywhere else you use a small wastebasket to line it. Not only are we all saving money and recycling the bags to good use it's a help to the economy and it just goes to show, plastic and paper is still well needed. I will always use them for this or transporting of things no matter what anyone thinks.
@thelastegg (27)
• Romania
17 Nov 08
Rustinas1, I really enjoy your answer as I believe you enjoy writing (it, and in general). thanks for dropping your lines here. regards!
@chameleonsdream (1230)
• United States
17 Nov 08
I reuse my plastic grocery bags for trash can liners, to carry wet clothes in after a swim at the gym and to pack groceries in - my supermarket takes 5 cents off your grocery bill for every bag that you reuse whether it's a plastic grocery bag or a reusable canvas bag, etc. Maybe the radio host thinks that it "looks tacky" to use plastic grocery bags in your bathroom trash, or maybe he's making a comment about all of us silly idiots who believe that we should be doing what we could to recycle and make a smaller impact on the environment.
What's funny is that I remember the times before plastic grocery bags, and all the ways that we reused brown paper grocery sacks - from book covers to draining the grease from fried foods. Thanks for an unusual and interesting discussion topic!
@thelastegg (27)
• Romania
19 Nov 08
yes, chameleonsdream, using plastic grocery bags for the bathroom waste container may have looked tacky to the DJ although I know him to be a quite eco-friendly-attitude type of person which makes me even more curious about what he said.
anyway, something came into my mind reading about the past ways that people used to manage the various uses for the paper grocery bags and... I remember how my mother used to cover or wrap up most of the cookies and cakes she made for me and my brother in some of these paper bags in order to store them somewhere, in some closed. I believe she said that this way the cakes will stay soft and fresh for longer. it's quite a memory, I must say. thank you for writing here.
@goldeneagle (6745)
• United States
21 Nov 08
hahahaha I thought my dad was the only one who used the paper grocery bags to drain the grease from fried foods. He STILL does that to this day. I don't eat a lot of fried foods, so I don't have a lot of need to do so, but I would do it as well if I were frying something. Newspapers work well for this too...
@goldeneagle (6745)
• United States
21 Nov 08
This is the kind of stuff that makes me hate most radio DJs. A lot of them are nothing more than immature idiots who like to get on the air and talk about stuff they usually have no clue about to begin with. There are some good ones out there, but most of them seem to be trying to be like Howard Stern (I despise him as well).
Why shouldn't people use the supermarket bags for trash bags? They are going to get tossed anyway. Why not fill them with garbage first? Of course, the best option is to keep them clean and take them to a recycling bin, which more people should do, but they also make pretty good (not to mention FREE) garbage bags. I use them all the time in the bathroom trash cans. Maybe that DJ just needs to learn to be more frugal? Maybe he was just feeling a little insecure in his manhood that day and needed someone to pick on to make him feel better about himself?
@thelastegg (27)
• Romania
26 Nov 08
You know, goldeneagle, I once asked the father of a friend of mine what is the thing that draws someone to being a radio DJ or a radio show host. This man is an university professor, so being totally uninformed about professional orientation of individuals is almost out of the question. Still, he kind of took me by surprise hearing him stating that being a radio show host is a very simple, very relaxing, almost an abstract job. I suddenly felt and could not really apprehend that this man in front of me under-appreciated this profession so much. I truly believe that this discussion right here, containing all these statements and opinions, make nothing less than quite a strong proof of how important the ideas and the way ideas are being manipulated in front of a public really are. Which clears up the high degree of responsibility of the man handling mass communication of ideas. Which makes this job totally inappropriate for immature idiots who like to get on-air and talk. goldeneagle, thanks for you comment.
@fifileigh (3615)
• United States
16 Nov 08
i use grocery bags as garbage bags in kitchen and bathroom, and when it fills up i throw the whole bag into the big trash can in the garage.
@thelastegg (27)
• Romania
17 Nov 08
what else is there to be said? fifileigh, your sincerity is widely appreciated. thank you.
@metschica25 (5399)
• United States
15 Nov 08
Hello 
I dont think there is anything wrong with that . Growing up my family did it and so did my gram . I suppose the clean up was much easier . Just take the bag down and throw away in bigger can when it is all filled up . However my fiance and me dont do that . I dont know why either 
I dont think there is anything wrong with that . Growing up my family did it and so did my gram . I suppose the clean up was much easier . Just take the bag down and throw away in bigger can when it is all filled up . However my fiance and me dont do that . I dont know why either @thelastegg (27)
• Romania
17 Nov 08
hello, metschica25, thank you for letting me know where you stand in regard to this matter. thanks, again.
@Zezloler (497)
• United Arab Emirates
17 Nov 08
What a random question. xD Why would the radio DJ be talking about plastic bags in toilet trash cans?
I use plastic bags for everything, because we get them at the supermarkets we shop at anyways. The reason we do this is because we can't find another use for them and it's pointless just having them hang around. We have to take them though, or else we couldn't carry out things from the supermarkets (most people shop at malls here).
Another reason we do this is because we live in an apartment. Every floor has kind of a small room where all the garbage goes and every once in a while some guy comes to clean it up. I think it's unhygenic for him to have to deal with this garbage, and it would be a lot easier if everyone just threw bags of garbage out. Sometimes, he recycles the black garbage bags, and this is very hard to do if you have things like juice or food being spilled around in it.
I don't see anything wrong with using plastic bags for garbage - actually I find them useful. O_o
@thelastegg (27)
• Romania
19 Nov 08
I myself use the supermarkets' plastic bags, zezloler, to carry the groceries around inside the store and then to get it home or wherever I need it. now, I have to confess that I ones tried to use a canvas bag of my own while shopping at a supermarket and guess what: when I went paying for my stuff almost all the people in my line gave me the eyebrow-up-look and stared at me. I thought I knew the reason at the time: no one else used to bring a personal, brought-from-home bag to go around shopping and me, being the only guy doing it, I looked unusual, abnormal, maybe even bizarre or weird. so, it's quite possible that the quality of being common to people has something to do with the way individuals behave in certain circumstances. as about the DJ, I still don't fully understand his attitude.
@tlb0822 (1410)
• United States
15 Nov 08
I don't see a problem with reusing supermarket bags for a bathroom garbage can. You are putting garbage into them. What is the big deal. That dj just needed something to talk about, and someone to talk about. I save my plastic bags for papers, or for misplaced clothing that i need to take to someones house. We have an Aldi's here and you can take in your own bags, since they don't provide them, so I usually grab a few that I saved and just reuse them. It's actually a great way to recycle.
@thelastegg (27)
• Romania
17 Nov 08
great way to recycle indeed, tlb0822! too bad that Aldi's don't provide grocery bags, though! super-, midi- and mini-markets are a great source of bags for later, multiple, maybe repeated use, I think. after all, one may very well argue that providing IS recycling! right?
