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An Abundance of Plastic Bags
Catherine Pulsifer

Every time you go to a store you receive plastic bags. Every time you buy bread you end up with a plastic bag. Over the run of a year it is amazing how many plastic bags you can end up with! Below are some suggestions for recycling and reusing these bags:

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Top 25 Things You Can Do With a Good Ole Paper Bag, #1

And the Numero Uno thing about Paper Bags that is so wonderful... Item #1 -

They are FREE!!! With every grocery purchase! What other item with so many uses do you get at absolutely no cost? Shopping bags too! So the next time the cashier asks, “Paper, or plastic?” Think ahead and say “Paper, please!”.
These puppies are just so handy and keep in mind that you are recycling too! Did you ever appreciate the paper bag so much? Will you look at it a little differently now? I know I will! Honestly, I had no idea they were this handy either! See what a small project can do for you?! :- ) And I was concerned I might not be able to come up with 25 uses. I’ve got some left over! I feel another list coming on... Stay tuned to Paper Bags Blog.

Expect further editions to share other articles and tips on the versatile paper bags of Duro Bag Mfg, the World’s largest maker of paper bags.

Probably some things you knew and hopefully some you didn't. Some are light hearted, admittedly, but some, are very helpful in a pinch!

Stop back to the Paper Bags Blog! Bookmark us now, we don't want to loose you!

Brought to you by Corky Devendorf and his friends at Duro Bag Mfg Co, Maker of more kinds of bags and sacks than you can shake a stick at! Today's special bag - Paper Grocery Bags and sacks (never knew there were so MANY uses, did ya?) from Duro Bag, helping with some of Life's Little Things...

Review-
#25 - Grease Stain Removal
#24 - Hiccup Cure
#23 - Schoolbook Cover
#22 - Car Heater Help
#21 - Costume
#20 - Shelf Liners
#19 - Wrapping Paper - A - Business
#18 - Wrapping Paper - B - Fun
#17 - Take a Lunch
#16 - For Sale Sign
#15 - Dietetic Popcorn Maker
#14 - Don’t forget to recycle!
#13 - Moving Aid
#12 - Storage Containers
#11 - Fire Starter
#10 - Paper Bag Luminaries
#9 - Paper Bag Puppet
#8 - Ripen a Green Banana
#7 - Emergency mulch from paper bags
#6 - Garbage Bag for the car
#5 - Paper Bag Liners - for those messy places
#4 - Groceries... & Safety!
#3 - Hot Dish Carrier
#2 - Crafts
#1 - And the Greatest Thing about Paper Bags?
They are FREE with every grocery purchase!

Top 25 Things You Can Do With a Good Ole Paper Bag, #2

Item #2 - Crafts

We have touched on this, especially with the hand puppets post, but paper bags have lots of uses for craft items. They have the stiffness to be hung as a snowflake and the colors available to use for most crafts. Whether it’s a brown grocery bag or a colored shopping bag, they are versatile as almost anything your imagination can help you create from them. Dioramas for school projects, chains for the Christmas tree, snowflakes, a turkey ornament for Thanksgiving, signs, and the list goes on and on.

Tomorrow we will wrap up our list of the 25 things you can do with a paper bag. It’s been fun talking with you. And we would invite you to add your $.02 in here. If you have another use, Drop us a line and if it might be of general interest, we would be happy to pass it along. As with everything on this blog, there is NO CHARGE for publishing your work, just the fun of helping others.

Expect further editions to share other articles and tips on the versatile paper bags of Duro Bag Mfg, the World’s largest maker of paper bags.

But don’t forget - Stay tuned for our countdown! Item #1 of the Paper Bag Countdown coming up tomorrow! Probably some things you know and hopefully some you don't. Some are light hearted, admittedly, but some, are very helpful in a pinch!

Stop back to the Paper Bags Blog! Bookmark us now, we don't want to loose you!

Brought to you by Corky Devendorf and his friends at Duro Bag Mfg Co, Maker of more kinds of bags and sacks than you can shake a stick at! Today's special bag - Paper Grocery Bags and sacks (never knew there were so MANY uses, did ya?) from Duro Bag, helping with some of Life's Little Things...

Review-
#25 - Grease Stain Removal
#24 - Hiccup Cure
#23 - Schoolbook Cover
#22 - Car Heater Help
#21 - Costume
#20 - Shelf Liners
#19 - Wrapping Paper - A - Business
#18 - Wrapping Paper - B - Fun
#17 - Take a Lunch
#16 - For Sale Sign
#15 - Dietetic Popcorn Maker
#14 - Don’t forget to recycle!
#13 - Moving Aid
#12 - Storage Containers
#11 - Fire Starter
#10 - Paper Bag Luminaries
#9 - Paper Bag Puppet
#8 - Ripen a Green Banana
#7 - Emergency mulch from paper bags
#6 - Garbage Bag for the car
#5 - Paper Bag Liners - for those messy places
#4 - Groceries... & Safety!
#3 - Hot Dish Carrier
#2 - Crafts
#1 - Tomorrow is it? Are you excited?

Top 25 Things You Can Do With a Good Ole Paper Bag, #3

Item #3 - Hot Dish Carrier

If you have parties or family functions where people are getting together for a good time, you will be asked to bring a dish to pass. Especially if they know you can cook! At least in this neck of the woods. Scalloped potatoes, for instance, can be messy. They are in a casserole dish, but they boiled over in the oven and the outside is sticky. To say nothing of retaining the heat, a paper bag around the casserole will save the carpet in the back seat of the car, and in addition, help keep the lid in place on the correl ware. That’s like killing THREE birds with one stone. Not that any animals were hurt in the writing of this column.
And don’t use the bag from #4, which might have #1 on it.

Stay tuned for our countdown! Item #2 of the Paper Bag Countdown coming up tomorrow! Probably some things you know and hopefully some you don't. Some are light hearted, admittedly, but some, are very helpful in a pinch!

Stop back to the Paper Bags Blog! Bookmark us now, we don't want to loose you!

Brought to you by Corky Devendorf and his friends at Duro Bag Mfg Co, Maker of more kinds of bags and sacks than you can shake a stick at! Today's special bag - Paper Grocery Bags and sacks (never knew there were so MANY uses, did ya?) from Duro Bag, helping with some of Life's Little Things...

Review-
#25 - Grease Stain Removal
#24 - Hiccup Cure
#23 - Schoolbook Cover
#22 - Car Heater Help
#21 - Costume
#20 - Shelf Liners
#19 - Wrapping Paper - A - Business
#18 - Wrapping Paper - B - Fun
#17 - Take a Lunch
#16 - For Sale Sign
#15 - Dietetic Popcorn Maker
#14 - Don’t forget to recycle!
#13 - Moving Aid
#12 - Storage Containers
#11 - Fire Starter
#10 - Paper Bag Luminaries
#9 - Paper Bag Puppet
#8 - Ripen a Green Banana
#7 - Emergency mulch from paper bags
#6 - Garbage Bag for the car
#5 - Paper Bag Liners - for those messy places
#4 - Groceries... & Safety!
#3 - Hot Dish Carrier
#2 - Stick with us, less than a week to go to #1 :- )

Top 25 Things You Can Do With a Good Ole Paper Bag, #4

Item #4 - Simple - Groceries... & Safety!

As we are coming down to the wire, I’ve realized that we have more than 25 advantages for our paper bags topic, thus there have been multiple hints in each of the listings. But that’s a good thing! Today’s is obvious, but here it is anyway - to bring your groceries home. Simple enough and taken for granted.
Now the other much more important thought for contemplation. Paper bags are safer to have around if you have little ones. Plastic bags require an extra degree of care with little children around. In the hustle and bustle of putting groceries away, bags can become strewn about or blown off a table by the ceiling fan, or just someone walking by the table. Imagine now that in the middle of this hubbub, the phone rings. Not hard to envision a baby at that crawling age, becoming interested in the bag and ending up... well, you know. I hate to even think about it. If you do use plastic bags, and they are great conveniences, please be extra careful with babies around. So much for light hearted, I know. But it needed to be said.

Stay tuned for our countdown! Item #3 of the Paper Bag Countdown coming up tomorrow! Probably some things you know and hopefully some you don't. Some are light hearted, admittedly, but some, are very helpful in a pinch!

Stop back to the Paper Bags Blog! Bookmark us now, we don't want to loose you!

Brought to you by Corky Devendorf and his friends at Duro Bag Mfg Co, Maker of more kinds of bags and sacks than you can shake a stick at! Today's special bag - Paper Grocery Bags and sacks (never knew there were so MANY uses, did ya?) from Duro Bag, helping with some of Life's Little Things...

Review-
#25 - Grease Stain Removal
#24 - Hiccup Cure
#23 - Schoolbook Cover
#22 - Car Heater Help
#21 - Costume
#20 - Shelf Liners
#19 - Wrapping Paper - A - Business
#18 - Wrapping Paper - B - Fun
#17 - Take a Lunch
#16 - For Sale Sign
#15 - Dietetic Popcorn Maker
#14 - Don’t forget to recycle!
#13 - Moving Aid
#12 - Storage Containers
#11 - Fire Starter
#10 - Paper Bag Luminaries
#9 - Paper Bag Puppet
#8 - Ripen a Green Banana
#7 - Emergency mulch from paper bags
#6 - Garbage Bag for the car
#5 - Paper Bag Liners - for those messy places
#4 - Groceries... & Safety!
#3 - Stick with us, less than a week to go to #1 :- )

Top 25 Things You Can Do With a Good Ole Paper Bag, #5

Item #5 - Paper Bag Liners - for those messy places

Today’s tip may not be flattering, but it sure gives you an appreciation for what a good paper bag can do. Do you have any messy holding areas in the house? Like a bird cage? (I think that click was a lightbulb coming on, you may be way ahead of me now.) Not every one has a pet bird, but we all have boots. Whatever your need, a paper bag will keep the bottoms of cages or boot trays a lot cleaner and easier to take care of. Newspaper is OK, but too much moisture and you have a bigger mess than having used nothing. Ever pick up wet newspaper to change the boot tray liner and have it shred in your hand? Yuck! A paper bag, while holding together better, will still absorb that extra moisture and clean up afterwards easier too.

Stay tuned for our countdown! Item #4 of the Paper Bag Countdown coming up tomorrow! Probably some things you know and hopefully some you don't. Some are light hearted, admittedly, but some, are very helpful in a pinch!

Stop back to the Paper Bags Blog! Bookmark us now, we don't want to loose you!

Brought to you by Corky Devendorf and his friends at Duro Bag Mfg Co, Maker of more kinds of bags and sacks than you can shake a stick at! Today's special bag - Paper Grocery Bags and sacks (never knew there were so MANY uses, did ya?) from Duro Bag, helping with some of Life's Little Things...

Review-
#25 - Grease Stain Removal
#24 - Hiccup Cure
#23 - Schoolbook Cover
#22 - Car Heater Help
#21 - Costume
#20 - Shelf Liners
#19 - Wrapping Paper - A - Business
#18 - Wrapping Paper - B - Fun
#17 - Take a Lunch
#16 - For Sale Sign
#15 - Dietetic Popcorn Maker
#14 - Don’t forget to recycle!
#13 - Moving Aid
#12 - Storage Containers
#11 - Fire Starter
#10 - Paper Bag Luminaries
#9 - Paper Bag Puppet
#8 - Ripen a Green Banana
#7 - Emergency mulch from paper bags
#6 - Garbage Bag for the car
#5 - Paper Bag Liners - for those messy places
#4 - Stick with us, less than a week to go to #1 :- )

Top 25 Things You Can Do With a Good Ole Paper Bag, #6

Item #6 - Garbage Bag for the car

Simple enough and self explanatory. Obviously, you need to be careful with liquids, but you can always throw a paper towel in the bottom of the bag too, for light amounts. Works great for those napkins that always get used. And keeps them off the floor. Duro Bag also makes trash bags though and obviously they would even contain the liquid mess without loosing their bottom, but, we’re talking “in a pinch here.”

Stay tuned for our countdown! Item #5 of the Paper Bag Countdown coming up tomorrow! Probably some things you know and hopefully some you don't. Some are light hearted, admittedly, but some, are very helpful in a pinch!

Stop back to the Paper Bags Blog! Bookmark us now, we don't want to loose you!

Brought to you by Corky Devendorf and his friends at Duro Bag Mfg Co, Maker of more kinds of bags and sacks than you can shake a stick at! Today's special bag - garbage and leaf bags and sacks (never knew there were so MANY uses, did ya?) from Duro Bag, helping with some of Life's Little Things...

Review-
#25 - Grease Stain Removal
#24 - Hiccup Cure
#23 - Schoolbook Cover
#22 - Car Heater Help
#21 - Costume
#20 - Shelf Liners
#19 - Wrapping Paper - A - Business
#18 - Wrapping Paper - B - Fun
#17 - Take a Lunch
#16 - For Sale Sign
#15 - Dietetic Popcorn Maker
#14 - Don’t forget to recycle!
#13 - Moving Aid
#12 - Storage Containers
#11 - Fire Starter
#10 - Paper Bag Luminaries
#9 - Paper Bag Puppet
#8 - Ripen a Green Banana
#7 - Emergency mulch from paper bags
#6 - Garbage Bag for the car
#5 - Stick with us, less than a week to go to #1 :- )

Top 25 Things You Can Do With a Good Ole Paper Bag, #7

Item #7 - Emergency Mulch

I had a tree to plant in the yard one weekend and didn’t feel like running into town to buy mulch. So what you say, well, you’re probably right. Being lazy isn’t something to brag about. But I took a few paper gabs and ran them thru the home office paper shredder. They are absorbent and would hold the water. And being below ground who would ever know. Hint: When you are lazy, make it so it doesn’t show... Tree didn’t care. That was 2 or 3 summers ago, so it didn’t hurt it.

Stay tuned for our countdown! Item #6 of the Paper Bag Countdown coming up tomorrow! Probably some things you know and hopefully some you don't. Some are light hearted, admittedly, but some, are very helpful in a pinch!

Stop back to the Paper Bags Blog! Bookmark us now, we don't want to loose you!

Brought to you by Corky Devendorf and his friends at Duro Bag Mfg Co, Maker of more kinds of bags and sacks than you can shake a stick at! Today's special bag - paper grocery bags and sacks (never knew there were so MANY uses, did ya?) from Duro Bag, helping with some of Life's Little Things...

Review-
#25 - Grease Stain Removal
#24 - Hiccup Cure
#23 - Schoolbook Cover
#22 - Car Heater Help
#21 - Costume
#20 - Shelf Liners
#19 - Wrapping Paper - A - Business
#18 - Wrapping Paper - B - Fun
#17 - Take a Lunch
#16 - For Sale Sign
#15 - Dietetic Popcorn Maker
#14 - Don’t forget to recycle!
#13 - Moving Aid
#12 - Storage Containers
#11 - Fire Starter
#10 - Paper Bag Luminaries
#9 - Paper Bag Puppet
#8 - Ripen a Green Banana
#7 - Emergency mulch from paper bags
#6 - We’re getting down there! :- )

Top 25 Things You Can Do With a Good Ole Paper Bag, #8

Item #8 - Did you hear the one about how to ripen a green banana fast?

I suppose I should extend this and make it complicated, but the plain truth is, just put it in... (Come on, say with me, now...) A Brown Paper Bag overnight.

I had forgotten this one, but as luck would have it, we got an ad for Food and Family magazine in the mail this evening. And lo and behold! Just happened to notice this one and to tell the truth, I could use another one or two... :-).

Stay tuned for our countdown! Item #7 of the Paper Bag Countdown coming up tomorrow! Probably some things you know and hopefully some you don't. Some are light hearted, admittedly, but some, are very helpful in a pinch!

Stop back to the Paper Bags Blog! Bookmark us now, we don't want to loose you!

Brought to you by Corky Devendorf and his friends at Duro Bag Mfg Co, Maker of more kinds of bags and sacks than you can shake a stick at! Today's special bag - paper lunch bags and sacks (never knew there were so MANY uses, did ya?) from Duro Bag, helping with some of Life's Little Things...

Review-
#25 - Grease Stain Removal
#24 - Hiccup Cure
#23 - Schoolbook Cover
#22 - Car Heater Help
#21 - Costume
#20 - Shelf Liners
#19 - Wrapping Paper - A - Business
#18 - Wrapping Paper - B - Fun
#17 - Take a Lunch
#16 - For Sale Sign
#15 - Dietetic Popcorn Maker
#14 - Don’t forget to recycle!
#13 - Moving Aid
#12 - Storage Containers
#11 - Fire Starter
#10 - Paper Bag Luminaries
#9 - Paper Bag Puppet
#8 - Ripen a Green Banana
#7 - We’re getting down there! :- )

Top 25 Things You Can Do With a Good Ole Paper Bag, #9

Item #9 - Paper Bag Puppet

Tell me what kid, of my age anyway, NEVER had a paper bag puppet. Sure you can go to the store and buy a puppet, but don’t you remember the time you spent with Mom making your very first puppet? Give your (grand) kids a chance to make such wonderful memories too!! After all, do remember playing with it? I don’t. But I remember MAKING it. IT was the creation, the shared experience, and when I did it with my kids, it was seeing where their imagination took them. A monster? A beautiful princess? A toad? I do remember those moments. Do you? Give them a chance in this busy world to make a memory too! Whether a paper bag or a (clean) sock puppet.

I won’t give any further instruction than above. After all, it is where their imagination takes them, with our guidance that is the most important part. Crayons, yarn - use it all!

Stay tuned for our countdown! Item #8 of the Paper Bag Countdown coming up tomorrow! Probably some things you know and hopefully some you don't. Some are light hearted, admittedly, but some, are very helpful in a pinch!

Stop back to the Paper Bags Blog! Bookmark us now, we don't want to loose you!

Brought to you by Corky Devendorf and his friends at Duro Bag Mfg Co, Maker of more kinds of bags and sacks than you can shake a stick at! Today's special bag - paper lunch bags and sacks (never knew there were so MANY uses, did ya?) from Duro Bag, helping with some of Life's Little Things...

Review-
#25 - Grease Stain Removal
#24 - Hiccup Cure
#23 - Schoolbook Cover
#22 - Car Heater Help
#21 - Costume
#20 - Shelf Liners
#19 - Wrapping Paper - A - Business
#18 - Wrapping Paper - B - Fun
#17 - Take a Lunch
#16 - For Sale Sign
#15 - Dietetic Popcorn Maker
#14 - Don’t forget to recycle!
#13 - Moving Aid
#12 - Storage Containers
#11 - Fire Starter
#10 - Paper Bag Luminaries
#9 - Paper Bag Puppet
#8 - We’re getting down there! :- )