Re-Useable Shopping Bags

[badgercat]

Yesterday the checkout clerk at Whole Foods thanked me for re-using the plastic produce bags. (It was obvious since I had a collection from several stores.) Mostly a rinse is enough to get them clean; if not, they're easy enough to wash and dry on a clothesline.

I re-use produce bags too! I never use them in the first place for things like avocados or other things you don't eat the peel--but apples, pears, peppers, etc I always save the bags for next time.

A couple Christmases ago I started wrapping my gifts for family in old newspapers, and asked my parents to also do recycled/recyclable packaging for my gifts. My mom at first thought this was the most ridiculous thing she'd heard (which she tends to do, when I mention things like not leaving the water running the whole time I'm in the shower, taking the bus to go out to dinner when it would be much easier to drive, etc), but she acquiesced and just stacked my gifts in 2 reusable grocery totes from the supermarket she normally shops at. I was very pleased.