Ladybird Bags

Lucille wrote:
"Gillian Murray" wrote in message
...
Cheryl Isaak wrote:
On 11/8/08 8:05 AM, in article
,
"lucretia borgia" wrote:

On Sat, 8 Nov 2008 10:33:17 -0000, "Parrotfish"
opined:

"Bruce Fletcher wrote ...
Parrotfish wrote:
snipperty
Those bags are *very* sturdy, about the best of the Supermarket
alternatives to plastic.

One of our local shops (we have two shops on the island) stopped
supplying
plastic bags earlier this year. However, they gave each customer a
free
burlap bag; most people bought another one, they were about one pound
each.
--
The trouble is........ how many bags is too many?
I've had 2 packs of 3 bags from Nescafe rewards, 2 Cancer charity bags
from
Asda, 3 limited edition designs from Sainsbury, and several canvas bags
free
with magazines. So far, I've only painted a design on *one*.
I am happy to confess to being the second one - I came home with a
Highgrove one from Tetbury - not that it will mean anything here lol I
have collected them for years, also tea towels, it takes me a couple
of months to work through the piles and repeat, even have special ones
for Christmas.

I sometimes feel "guilty" when I use bags from one grocery store at
another.
It's all in what was at the top of the bag to carry the bags and did I
make
other stops.

And certain ones just work better. I have several from my first choice
store that are the size of the old style paper bags. Nice and deep and
squared off with reinforced corners and built in hard bottoms (not the
kind
you can take out, break, lose etc). And I now have several thermal bags
that
close, including the one with a zipper.


C

I have one from them, too. I rather like the way there is a snap to keep
the thing compact when you are not using it. Whole Foods bags are also big
. They take three 12packs of cans, vertically in them. That is the one we
always used in NH to take the empties back to the store; Jim's job was to
feed the empties into the machine while I did the shopping. kept him out
of my hair for a while.

Gill

Down here I haven't seen the 5 cents a bag for using them. I shall have to
talk to the Store managers about that!



If you use your own reusable totes to carry groceries, what do you use for
garbage? I recycle the grocery plastic bags for that use.

Lucille


13 qt kitchen trash bags, and 33 gall black bags. We accumulate a lot of
garbage, especially since Jim has been going through all his stuff and
is throwing out items he hasn't used for the last 10 years! I see people
here trotting to the dumpster, or more likely riding the golf cart, with
a teeny bag of trash. I think a lot of them eat out, which we don't do,
and probably are not big on newspapers and magazines.

Gill

"Gillian Murray" wrote in message
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Lucille wrote:
"Gillian Murray" wrote in message
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Cheryl Isaak wrote:
On 11/8/08 8:05 AM, in article
,
"lucretia borgia" wrote:

On Sat, 8 Nov 2008 10:33:17 -0000, "Parrotfish"
opined:

"Bruce Fletcher wrote ...
Parrotfish wrote:
snipperty
Those bags are *very* sturdy, about the best of the Supermarket
alternatives to plastic.

One of our local shops (we have two shops on the island) stopped
supplying
plastic bags earlier this year. However, they gave each customer a
free
burlap bag; most people bought another one, they were about one
pound
each.
--
The trouble is........ how many bags is too many?
I've had 2 packs of 3 bags from Nescafe rewards, 2 Cancer charity
bags from
Asda, 3 limited edition designs from Sainsbury, and several canvas
bags free
with magazines. So far, I've only painted a design on *one*.
I am happy to confess to being the second one - I came home with a
Highgrove one from Tetbury - not that it will mean anything here lol I
have collected them for years, also tea towels, it takes me a couple
of months to work through the piles and repeat, even have special ones
for Christmas.

I sometimes feel "guilty" when I use bags from one grocery store at
another.
It's all in what was at the top of the bag to carry the bags and did I
make
other stops.

And certain ones just work better. I have several from my first choice
store that are the size of the old style paper bags. Nice and deep and
squared off with reinforced corners and built in hard bottoms (not the
kind
you can take out, break, lose etc). And I now have several thermal bags
that
close, including the one with a zipper.


C

I have one from them, too. I rather like the way there is a snap to keep
the thing compact when you are not using it. Whole Foods bags are also
big . They take three 12packs of cans, vertically in them. That is the
one we always used in NH to take the empties back to the store; Jim's
job was to feed the empties into the machine while I did the shopping.
kept him out of my hair for a while.

Gill

Down here I haven't seen the 5 cents a bag for using them. I shall have
to talk to the Store managers about that!



If you use your own reusable totes to carry groceries, what do you use
for garbage? I recycle the grocery plastic bags for that use.

Lucille
13 qt kitchen trash bags, and 33 gall black bags. We accumulate a lot of
garbage, especially since Jim has been going through all his stuff and is
throwing out items he hasn't used for the last 10 years! I see people here
trotting to the dumpster, or more likely riding the golf cart, with a
teeny bag of trash. I think a lot of them eat out, which we don't do, and
probably are not big on newspapers and magazines.

Gill

I'm one of those who keep the economy thriving by eating out a lot. And one
person and a tiny dog doesn't create a great deal of garbage even when I'm
home. Newspapers and jars are recycled separately so the little grocery
bags are most times all I need.

On 11/8/08 10:45 AM, in article ,
"Lucille" lzoltynospam@now at comcast..net wrote:


"Cheryl Isaak" wrote in message
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On 11/8/08 10:25 AM, in article ,
"Lucille" lzoltynospam@now at comcast..net wrote:


"Gillian Murray" wrote in message
...
Cheryl Isaak wrote:
On 11/8/08 8:05 AM, in article
,
"lucretia borgia" wrote:

On Sat, 8 Nov 2008 10:33:17 -0000, "Parrotfish"
opined:

"Bruce Fletcher wrote ...
Parrotfish wrote:
snipperty
Those bags are *very* sturdy, about the best of the Supermarket
alternatives to plastic.

One of our local shops (we have two shops on the island) stopped
supplying
plastic bags earlier this year. However, they gave each customer a
free
burlap bag; most people bought another one, they were about one
pound
each.
--
The trouble is........ how many bags is too many?
I've had 2 packs of 3 bags from Nescafe rewards, 2 Cancer charity
bags
from
Asda, 3 limited edition designs from Sainsbury, and several canvas
bags
free
with magazines. So far, I've only painted a design on *one*.
I am happy to confess to being the second one - I came home with a
Highgrove one from Tetbury - not that it will mean anything here lol I
have collected them for years, also tea towels, it takes me a couple
of months to work through the piles and repeat, even have special ones
for Christmas.


I sometimes feel "guilty" when I use bags from one grocery store at
another.
It's all in what was at the top of the bag to carry the bags and did I
make
other stops.

And certain ones just work better. I have several from my first choice
store that are the size of the old style paper bags. Nice and deep and
squared off with reinforced corners and built in hard bottoms (not the
kind
you can take out, break, lose etc). And I now have several thermal bags
that
close, including the one with a zipper.


C

I have one from them, too. I rather like the way there is a snap to keep
the thing compact when you are not using it. Whole Foods bags are also
big
. They take three 12packs of cans, vertically in them. That is the one
we
always used in NH to take the empties back to the store; Jim's job was
to
feed the empties into the machine while I did the shopping. kept him out
of my hair for a while.

Gill

Down here I haven't seen the 5 cents a bag for using them. I shall have
to
talk to the Store managers about that!



If you use your own reusable totes to carry groceries, what do you use
for
garbage? I recycle the grocery plastic bags for that use.

Lucille




I buy the kitchen size bags. I need the room....



So you're still using plastic.






True, but I found the grocery bags too small and too flimsy...
C

On 11/8/08 11:12 AM, in article ,
"Jangchub" wrote:

On Sat, 8 Nov 2008 10:25:42 -0500, "Lucille" lzoltynospam@now at
comcast..net wrote:

If you use your own reusable totes to carry groceries, what do you use for
garbage? I recycle the grocery plastic bags for that use.

Lucille


Just a suggestion that we do, cut the handle before you tie it off so
it doesn't get caught around the neck of a water bird or baby seal
somewhere. They've been having a lot of problems with the plastic bag
handles getting caught up on the animals in water.

Victoria


My trash goes to a landfill. There was talk about an incinerator power
plant, wish they'd do that. They are in Europe and do work on municipal
sized loads.

C

"Cheryl Isaak" wrote in message
...
On 11/8/08 11:12 AM, in article
,
"Jangchub" wrote:

On Sat, 8 Nov 2008 10:25:42 -0500, "Lucille" lzoltynospam@now at
comcast..net wrote:

If you use your own reusable totes to carry groceries, what do you use
for
garbage? I recycle the grocery plastic bags for that use.

Lucille


Just a suggestion that we do, cut the handle before you tie it off so
it doesn't get caught around the neck of a water bird or baby seal
somewhere. They've been having a lot of problems with the plastic bag
handles getting caught up on the animals in water.

Victoria


My trash goes to a landfill. There was talk about an incinerator power
plant, wish they'd do that. They are in Europe and do work on municipal
sized loads.

C


Mine goes to a landfill as well. I wonder about incinerator power. Does it
pollute the air when burning the garbage?

Lucille

lucretia borgia wrote:
On Sat, 8 Nov 2008 10:33:17 -0000, "Parrotfish"
opined:

"Bruce Fletcher wrote ...
Parrotfish wrote:
snipperty
Those bags are *very* sturdy, about the best of the Supermarket
alternatives to plastic.

One of our local shops (we have two shops on the island) stopped supplying
plastic bags earlier this year. However, they gave each customer a free
burlap bag; most people bought another one, they were about one pound
each.
--
The trouble is........ how many bags is too many?
I've had 2 packs of 3 bags from Nescafe rewards, 2 Cancer charity bags from
Asda, 3 limited edition designs from Sainsbury, and several canvas bags free
with magazines. So far, I've only painted a design on *one*.

I am happy to confess to being the second one - I came home with a
Highgrove one from Tetbury - not that it will mean anything here lol I
have collected them for years, also tea towels, it takes me a couple
of months to work through the piles and repeat, even have special ones
for Christmas.

I do giggle at the absurd thought of HRH, dressed in a blue and white
striped apron behind the counter!! Tying up the purchases in brown paper
and string! Remember that? A little loop to put it over your finger if
it was a small parcel.

Gill

On 11/8/08 12:16 PM, in article ,
"Lucille" lzoltynospam@now at comcast..net wrote:


"Cheryl Isaak" wrote in message
...
On 11/8/08 11:12 AM, in article
,
"Jangchub" wrote:

On Sat, 8 Nov 2008 10:25:42 -0500, "Lucille" lzoltynospam@now at
comcast..net wrote:

If you use your own reusable totes to carry groceries, what do you use
for
garbage? I recycle the grocery plastic bags for that use.

Lucille


Just a suggestion that we do, cut the handle before you tie it off so
it doesn't get caught around the neck of a water bird or baby seal
somewhere. They've been having a lot of problems with the plastic bag
handles getting caught up on the animals in water.

Victoria


My trash goes to a landfill. There was talk about an incinerator power
plant, wish they'd do that. They are in Europe and do work on municipal
sized loads.

C


Mine goes to a landfill as well. I wonder about incinerator power. Does it
pollute the air when burning the garbage?

Lucille




The exhaust can be "scrubbed" to be quite clean.

C

Gillian Murray wrote:
I do giggle at the absurd thought of HRH, dressed in a blue and white
striped apron behind the counter!! Tying up the purchases in brown paper
and string! Remember that? A little loop to put it over your finger if
it was a small parcel.

Gill

About 20 years ago we visited Bolton Castle
http://www.boltoncastle.co.uk in the Yorkshire Dales; this was before
the castle was the tourist attraction that it is today and everything
was ever so slightly "amateurish" but in the most charming way. There
was a small cafe so while Maureen and her friend, both history buffs,
disappeared to explore the place more thoroughly I decided to have a
snack and a cup of coffee. I chatted with the chap behind the counter
and the lady who served me before settling down to tuck into my
delicious meal. When Maureen and her friend returned an hour or so later
they also chatted to the folk behind the counter before joining me at
the table. It was only later that they told me that the man behind the
counter was Harry Orde-Powlett, 8th Lord Bolton and the lady who served
me was his wife; they were trying to make a go of the place and were not
afraid to roll up their sleeves and get stuck into the work.
--
Bruce Fletcher
Stronsay, Orkney UK

On 11/8/08 1:30 PM, in article ,
"lucretia borgia" wrote:

On Sat, 08 Nov 2008 12:57:24 -0500, Cheryl Isaak
opined:




The exhaust can be "scrubbed" to be quite clean.

C

I hope so because if NH went that route, guess who is going to be
breathing in the fumes ???


What I had heard about was smaller towns doing this. Frankly, properly done,
you wouldn't know the difference between trash and natural gas.
C

Bruce Fletcher (remove dentures to reply) wrote:

When the shop issued the free burlap bags they held a contest for the
best decorated bag. The winner was an enterprising lady (no, it wasn't
Maureen) who treated one side of the bag as a piece of aida and filled
it with a cross-stitch design incorporating the name of the shop
(Olivebank), its phone number, the proprieter's name (Williamson) and
various items sold by the shop (fruit, veg, groceries, meat).


I wish they'd give us (a) free (b) burlap bags. Here, they're charging
$1 each (some offer the bargain price of 99c) for some flimsy recycled
crap that's not worth #$%!!. The first one I bought developed a hole
from corn on the cob, the second ripped when they put canned goods in
it, and the third disintegrated when it got dirty and I washed it. I
don't think I've had any of them last more than 5 or 6 uses before it
was damaged; at that rate, it'd be cheaper to pay for plastic bags
(which I recycle as trash bags and also to put my cans and bottles in to
set out for the homeless to take to the recycling center).

I finally gave up on those, went to www.northernsun.com and ordered
sturdy canvas bags. Those are a little big to keep one folded in my hip
pocket for spur-of-the-moment shopping, so I found directions for a
crocheted Euro-style mesh bag that squishes down to nothing, and will
keep a couple of those in my pocket.

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