SEVERAL INTERESTING WAYS TO REUSE PLASTIC GROCERY BAGS:

Around the House:

• Use the plastic grocery sacks as wastebasket liners in bedroom, office and bath.
• A dozen bags rolled up tight fit into a small ziplock bag, freeing up lots of space in kitchen drawers.
• Use them to protect water and gas valves in the wintertime.
• Take grocery and retail sacks back to the store for reuse while shopping.
• Plastic bags keep dust away when storing off-season shoes.
• Take them to the food bank where they can be used to give needy people their food.
• Sort craft supplies in them.
• Use plastic sacks to cushion breakable items when moving them in boxes.
• Use them to store outgrown clothing to pass down to the next child or to take the clothing they grow out of to Goodwill.

For the Holidays

• Make Christmas wreaths with them.
• Hide presents from the kids.
• Protect gifts from rain and snow during holiday trips and visits.
• Plastic sacks make great packing materials when sending fragile gifts.
• To keep needles from your Christmas tree off the carpet, take the tree apart with pruning clippers and put the pieces into a plastic bag. Put a sandwich bag on your hands when handling the tree trunk to keep off pine tar.

In the Workshop or Garage

• It's the best way to store a paintbrush full of oil-base paint at the end of the day to use it again the next day without having to use a solvent to store it overnight. Just wrap the brush in the bag and put it in the refrigerator until the next morning.
• Slip them under the car to catch those last few drops of oil after an oil change.
• Keep leftover paint fresh by pouring it into a heavyweight, sealable plastic bag. Squeeze out the air and seal the bag. Put the bag in the original paint can and tap the lid closed.
• When clamping irregular shapes, hold them together with a sand-filled plastic bag.

Out and About

• Keep clothes dry on canoeing trips.
• Line your backpack or bicycle pack with them.
• When packing for travel, use plastic bags for shoe storage.
• Give them to thrift stores or garage sales for their reuse.
• Use as a litterbag.
• Use as containers for plants to be transplanted.
• Turn the big ones into ponchos.

For Students

• Use as trash bags in dorm rooms
• Use plastic grocery bags to store your aluminum cans for recycling. They are handy because they can be hung on the door handles.
• Put a plastic bag on a stadium seat at a band competition when it is raining.

For Kids

• Use them to make a kite or another type of craft.
• They make a great suitcase when you are spending the night with a friend
• Use them to hold items