stock up on trash bags

WhatInThe said:
I reuse the supermarket/dollar store type bags frequently through the year for trash.
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Me too!

A box of real trash bags lasts me several years.

I use them for things like rain ponchos, garment bags, storage bags, almost anything but trash.
 

Aunt Bea said:
Me too!

A box of real trash bags lasts me several years.

I use them for things like rain ponchos, garment bags, storage bags, almost anything but trash.
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Sometimes if I have little and/or dry & odorless trash I transfer the kitchen trash into the shopping bags leaving/using the garbage bag as a liner. I look at garbage bags like this. One could say I'm literally throwing money away which I like to avoid.

Sidenote-I miss the twisty ties, tying the stringless bags is a pain. Bring back the ties!
 
Don M. said:
It seems that oil and gas aren't the Only things that may go up in price in coming weeks/months, as a result of this hurricane. Plastic products are a large share of the refinery products.
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It's just an excuse to price gouge. The cost of production is still the same.
 
WhatInThe said:
I reuse the supermarket/dollar store type bags frequently through the year for trash.
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Not sure if it makes me frugal or just a cheap S.O.B. but we also reuse the ones pictured on a daily basis in the kitchen......I always put the newspaper from the day before in the bottom to soak up any spills and also double bag them for added protection and sturdiness.
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Interesting to think about, the plastics. We here in far North Texas were hit with sudden gasoline "shortages" when the media up here proclaimed it. Funny, Houston has plenty of gas (or so I've heard), but the gas stations here are selling out. Yesterday and today were pandemonium. Thanks, media.

Thankfully I don't have to commute anywhere, so I'm just staying home until it all dies down.

We reuse store grocery bags for small trash can liners, and we even reuse the thin produce bags for our compost bucket by the sink. Trying to keep a small footprint here in the country where recycling is the name of the game. :)
 
I use reusable canvas type bags most of the time for groceries. I reuse the little grocery bags I have saved for lining my waste baskets. I do buy 13 gallon bags so I should get some at Aldi's where they are reasonable.
 
I also use my plastic bags for various other things.
Living up here in that vast frozen place called Canada, the price of gas has jumped 25 cents a liter in the last week.
That would be approx. $1.00 a gal.US. Ironically we have lots of crude oil, apparently we send it to Texas to be
refined.
 
Ouch, sorry tortiecat. One of the cities in our vast metroplex had a gas station that immediately started charging $8.02/gallon. That is illegal, and I hope the authorities come down on the owners. By and large, though, we haven't seen any other evidence of gouging, just 20 and 30-cent/gallon increases, which is reasonable. Sort of.

I live near a retirement community, and their little 4-pump gas station only went up 20 cents. Don't mess with the old folks.
 
There are 3 gas stations by me here in Houston and gas increased 15 cents a gallon. I went to League City, 3 miles away. to the doctor and they had increased there about the same. There is not a shortage and there are not lines at any around here.
 
WhatInThe said:
Sidenote-I miss the twisty ties, tying the stringless bags is a pain. Bring back the ties!
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I like the twisty ties too, the stringed or stringless tie bags are a hassle to use. My weekly trash is put in the big black bags, and I secure them with filament tape. I use the white ones for the larger kitchen trash can. The supermarket bags are used for all my other smaller trash cans.
 
terry123 said:
There are 3 gas stations by me here in Houston and gas increased 15 cents a gallon. I went to League City, 3 miles away. to the doctor and they had increased there about the same. There is not a shortage and there are not lines at any around here.
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That's what I heard too - no shortages in your area. It's all the media up here. They said "gas shortage" and folks came out of the woodwork. It's SO annoying!
 
There's no gas shortage here, but this morning I filled up for $2.40* a gallon. That about 30 cents higher than it was before Harvey.

* that's rounded up from $2.39.9. From now on I refuse to play that silly 9/10 of a cent game.
 

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