I'm almost 43 yrs old and I should be ashamed to admit this but . . .

[Rose in BC]

. . .today I, for the first time ever, washed out my ziploc bags to reuse. This is a result of reading the threads regarding frugality. I just couldn't throw them away today knowing how easy it is to wash them (and knowing how many of you do reuse them). The guilt of throwing them away would be unbearable!! lol!

I can hardly wait until my husband returns from his walk to see a little line of bags hanging to dry over the kitchen sink. I wonder what he'll say?

Next might be the cloth napkins. (And before you think I'm the most environmentally unsound person there is, I do recycle many things and did use cloth diapers, etc. I just haven't given up all the conveniences.)

[mcconnellboys]

LOL! You're just like my mom!

[WendyK]

I do it unless I put something really icky in there (raw chicken). I have started buying more and more reusable containers to cut back on wraps and bags.

[Jennifer in MI]

Welcome to the dark side . . .

We don't use very many Ziploc type bags, but I do wash them out (unless there's been meat in them). At one point I figured out how much money per hour I'd have to earn for it NOT to be worth it (I figured out how much each bag cost, how long it took for me to wash it out, and then got how much I'd have to earn per hour to pay for another bag). It was SOOOOO worth it just to wash the stupid thing out. I don't remember the number now, however!

[Rose in BC]

LOL! You're just like my mom!

I'm not really sure why. I guess in my mind my homeschool contemporaries should all be the same age as me -- not me be as old has their mother! lol!

[Rose in BC]

Welcome to the dark side . . .

We don't use very many Ziploc type bags, but I do wash them out (unless there's been meat in them). At one point I figured out how much money per hour I'd have to earn for it NOT to be worth it (I figured out how much each bag cost, how long it took for me to wash it out, and then got how much I'd have to earn per hour to pay for another bag). It was SOOOOO worth it just to wash the stupid thing out. I don't remember the number now, however!

So I guess this will be a very cost effective change for me.

[mcconnellboys]

Oh, honey, I'm sure I'm older than you. In fact, I think I'm older than most here. On the other thread I said that I would *never* rinse out Ziploc bags because we've teased my Mom about doing that for so many years she'd make me eat crow. That's what I was referring to, LOL, not age.

[Rose in BC]

Oh, honey, I'm sure I'm older than you. In fact, I think I'm older than most here. On the other thread I said that I would *never* rinse out Ziploc bags because we've teased my Mom about doing that for so many years she'd make me eat crow. That's what I was referring to, LOL, not age.

I am a notorious skimmer when it comes to reading anything (terrible habit)!

BTW, my niece dropped by this afternoon and burst out laughing at my ziploc clothesline and when my husband returned from his walk . . .well let's just say neither of them think this has any staying power. But I am way too stubborn to quit after being laughed at. :)

[Jean in Wisc]

I attach drying bags to the refrigerator with magnets--just dry them out enough so that they do not drip down the front of the frig.

:D

[Jennifer in NH]

And, take the advice about not reusing the ones with raw meat...especially chicken, salmonella and all...yuck!

[mcconnellboys]

Yeah? So's my Mom, LOL!

[Suzanne in ABQ]

Interesting. I was about that age when I gave myself permission to NOT wash them!
After years of washing them out (like my mother does), I got tired of looking at upside down, inside out plastic bags all over my otherwise uncluttered kitchen cabinets.

[OhM]

We started recycling "easy" stuff in earnest about 2 years ago. Now we're trying to cut our refuse even more.

Recently started w/the reusable grocery bags (the hardest part is remembering to take them! Otherwise, I love them! Much better than the plastic bags) and rinsing out ziplock bags!!! The toughest part of that is getting them out of the drying rack before dh throws them away!

And a question - how do others dry the bags? Throw them on the dish drainer? Hang them on a line? Anyone have an ingenious method for drying them?