have you heard the latest?

[SEMPERFI61]

some grocery stores are starting to charge customers for the old plastic bags that were free!!!they want you to buy their cloth bags and use everytime you get groceries! they are not cheap and they do wear out.how about some tatoo sacks to take to the grocery stores--that would bring a laugh.

 

[PeggyK]

Up in Canada the stores are providing plasticized cloth bags for 99 cents. My hubbie & I use them gladly - I always had too many plastic grocery bags I too flimsy to use for most things. So far it's been over a year, and they haven't shown any wear yet - shopping once or twice a week for milk & butter, with our big shop after the fliers come out with bargains. But the best thing is that I discovered they make FANTASTIC drop cloths. They come folded in a V shape, so when the time comes to put the dirt back in the hole All I do is create that V and pour. It works so well I would never go back to the cloth ones I used before.

How about the old flour sacks (grin) - My Mom lived through the depression, so we had those as camping pillowcases and tote bags for dayhikes even as late as the 70s.

Peggy
History is a treasure worth finding!

 

[Anonymous]

Well, I guess the stores are hurting also and are trying to save money! I use the plastic bags from other stores to shop at Aldi's! They have large bags with their name on them for 10 cents each and paper bags for 5 cents, but their paper ones are so rotten and tear easily that I use my used plastic bags from other stores! Saves on bags and when they get holes in them even from double bagging they get used for wrapping my knick-knacks, glasses, dishes and etc for moving and then, hopefully, I can get rid of them either by returning the plastic bags to the store where they have bins for them or into the trash they go. Recycling won't take them!

Mom used to wash and bleach the flour sacks and make my underwear and slips out of them! I wore the dresses she made from the prints some of them had! Gunny sacks Cliff and I wore over our shoes to get out and play in the ice and snow in the wintertime! They were also used to tote taters, vegs and whatever in them from the garden to the house! Mom grew lots of cucumbers one summer when dad rigged up pipes to carry the water from the spring to the garden which had to go across the gravel bottom and over the creek! There were so many that people came with gunny sacks and hauled sack fulls away, as their gardens had dried up during the real hot, dry summer! She canned lots and lots of pickles that year with our help!

Oh, the good ole days.....peppermint sticks in the cans of coffee, dishes in the flour bags and etc. These were for poor folks and now you have to be rich to buy the depression glass dishes and other antiques!

God Bless!
Betty

 

[MagicMatt]

I know that Wal-Mart sells the cloth bags for a $1. Its about the whole green america. They are trying to make people more earth friendly. I don't think that there anything wrong with it and they are not charging for the plastic bag either.

 

[Mike Chgo area]

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[Mike from MI "Iron Brigade"]

Didn't year but am not surprised! Might be a good thing if we stop putting billions of them bags in the landfill.

 

[SEMPERFI61]

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[Anonymous]

We didn't have a TV but we did go to the old western movies showing Lash Larue, the Lone Ranger, Gene Autry, Roy Rogers and etc. The first time I had a TV was in the early 60's, my ex and I purchased one that swiveled on its base and I still have it! Tami used to play her Atari games on it! I also listened to Amos and Andy and ????? Those were the good ole days for sure! rofl: Ma's aging isn't she?

God Bless!
Betty