When Plastic Bags Begin to Overrun Your Home
March 8, 2008 by Joshua Johnson
Filed under Home & Living
This weekend, I am harking back to a post I did about the usefulness of plastic grocery sacks.
If you are like me, you have more plastic sacks saved than you know what to do with–so I am posting an alternative to this via a blog post titled: A few scraps: Recycled Shopping Bags.
The author explains:
I’ve seen a lot of good solutions online to the plastic shopping bag problem. Let me show you the two that are working for me. Above: Our big grocery chain has these great roomy $0.99 bags with straps that perfectly slip over the shoulder. They also have an atrocious logo (I mean really, super ugly). that made me not ever want to use them. I solved that, with a net gain of two pockets! I cut the leg bottoms off a pair of thrift-store pants and sewed them on over the logo. People ask me about this bag (and its sisters) constantly.
Keep in mind that you may need several of these sorts of bags if you plan to use them for all of your weekly groceries. The laws of physics can be SOOO demanding, sometimes.
Good Luck!
Hey there, here are the links I promised for making rugs from plastic bags. You can make some really colorful items, too. In Africa people are weaving hats, bags, and more!
http://www.homesteadweaver.com/plasticbagrugs.htm Woven Rugs
http://www.essortment.com/all/crochetrugs_rzje.htm Crochet Rugs
http://www.rusticgirls.com/fun/grocery-bag-rug.html Braided Rug
Thanks very much! May I use these ideas along with some others for a post on plastic grocery bags?
It’s your blog! And those are not my directions, just links to others. So, feel free