I have a confession to make. I am not an earth lover. The earth is not my mother!! I do not worship the creation, rather, the Creator!! I appreciate the earth and do take care of it the best I can. Well, sort of.
I have refused to recycle (our city does it for us, anyway... I wouldn't do it even if they did give us the two cans for separating stuff). I vehemently resist any acquiescence to the tree-huggers or other left-wing political movements. For 10 years I washed all my ziplock bags until they died and was very careful about things like that (for money reasons). When I had six children, I stopped doing that. I figured that I had "paid my dues," so to speak, in the recycling/re-using department. I was BUSY by then, and couldn't see my way clearly to do that washing anymore. Now, with seven children, I am even busier! It was also a way of saying to the Lord that I trusted Him to give me ziplock bags so I could save leftovers and properly store food.
That said, I have lately been convicted to try to change my ways. Not for the earth, though. To save money and my family's resources. I appreciate these challenges to be extremely frugal and to re-use things. I do re-use plastic grocery bags for our small trash cans but I throw away brown bags (I don't have storage space). If I had some reusable bags, that would help me to not have to toss bags or store them and I would even be saving a tree (though not intentionally! LOL!).
I'm trying. I could even make a bag or two with some fabric that I've been hoarding for such a day as this. My machine has a triple stitch so it could be really strong. I'm thinking they would be good for the smaller stores I frequent, especially. Costco gives us those boxes, not bags.
This is a link to some cute bags. Maybe I will buy some. When I am not being so frugal.
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