We've all done it: lined up at checkout to realize we left our reusable shopping bags in the car/house. It's really not that bad since I use the bags to line our bathroom trash, but I've done it so often that I have enough bags to line 50 trash cans for the next two years.. and yet the bags keep piling up. I tried other uses for these dreaded plastic bags. I use them as a lunch bag, gym bag, laundry bag, but it inevitably ends up in the trash (and we all know how I feel about that)...until today.
With Fall right around the corner (2 days to be exact), it's time to move my plants indoors. I have two particular plants in large clay pots. They were once little house warming gifts that, over the years, have graduated to larger and larger containers. The problem with house plants as big as these, is that once they're down on our hardwood floors, they don't move until it's time to take them out again - around late Spring. Even then, they leave nicks and scratches on the floors, and ring marks for when the water filters down to the bottom of the pot. Enter the Pillow Pot (made this name up). It's a plastic bag filled with other plastic bags that allows me to move these clay pots around my living room without scratching the floors.
Materials:
a bunch of plastic bags
1 fancy, thicker plastic bag
packing tape - preferably the clear ones
Procedures:
1. fill thicker plastic bag with the smaller ones... the fluffier the better
2. fold the bag to a size just slightly larger than the bottom of your pot.
3. seal with tape, and tape in corners (or if you want to keep the square shape - do it up!)
4. place pot on top
5. PRESTO: Pillow Pot
Hooray!!! I am no longer that crazy woman who walks out the supermarket carrying 10 items to avoid using the plastic bags.
Note: ziplock bag is optional. I happen to have one that wasn't quite ready to be thrown out...but didn't want to reuse for food either.
My rubber and aloe plant. These two gave me hope that I can be a gardener.
Interesting. I reuse my plastic bags when cleaning out the litter boxes and to clean up Kiwi's puke (he does that a lot), and as garbage bags. I actually go through so many that sometimes I won't bring my reusable bags with me in the store becuase I need to replenish my plastic bags.
ReplyDeletefor some reason, our store bags our groceries with 2-3 items in them. The other day, the bag boy put dental floss and toothpaste in a bag...and that was it!
ReplyDeleteI always bag my own stuff at grocery stores, but at places like Walmart or Target you really can't bag your own.
ReplyDeleteHere are some more uses for plastic bags: http://www.realsimple.com/new-uses-for-old-things/new-uses-plastic-bags/index.html
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