Menopause Matters Forum
General Discussion => This 'n' That => Topic started by: bramble on April 11, 2017, 09:42:45 AM
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In my old utility room I had a plastic bag holder which I screwed into the inside of the door in my old unit. I hesitate to screw anything into my brand new units.
Where do you all store your plastic bags and how??
Bramble
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My son made a drawstring bag in school many years ago which I use for my plastic bags. It lives in a kitchen drawer. Falling to bits now but does have fond memories for me.
Have you looked at the Lakeland website. They sometimes have good storage solutions.
Mrs Brown
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I have a plastic bag holder on back of my kitchen door. Seldom used now as I have cloth bags I take shopping nowadays.
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My shopping gets delivered in plastic bags which I re-use for cat litter. It must take the delivery man ages to take it out of the boxes if it wasn't. May try it this week and experiment!
Bramble
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My shopping gets delivered in plastic bags which I re-use for cat litter. It must take the delivery man ages to take it out of the boxes if it wasn't. May try it this week and experiment!
Bramble
I don't know who you shop with, but any delivery I've had has involved the driver taking out pallets with my shopping, rather than finding individual bags so it might not make any difference.
I keep the few plastic bags I have left in a drawer in the kitchen.
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I have shopping delivered without bags. I refuse to pay a fee for bags. the driver brings the pallets to the door where I am ready with a supply of shopping bags which he decants the items into for me. :)
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We shop in Supermarkets etc., so try to take 3/4 bags for life with us. Usually they remain in the boot so one of us has to walk back for them ::). They are stored under the stairs ........ or used for kitchen rubbish that isn't re-cyclable. I notice that the groceries that Mum has delivered are biodegradable :o so can be used in the kitchen and transferred to the compost heap.
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My driver takes the boxes containing my groceries in bags into the kitchen for me. I thought they all delivered into the kitchen! I don't fancy standing on the doorstep transferring stuff from the boxes into bags. Would they not still deliver into the kitchen if I got it bagless?
Bramble
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My driver takes the boxes containing my groceries in bags into the kitchen for me. I thought they all delivered into the kitchen! I don't fancy standing on the doorstep transferring stuff from the boxes into bags. Would they not still deliver into the kitchen if I got it bagless?
Bramble
If they do itfor you now, I'm sure they still will. Asda only deliver to the ground floor of tenements and I refuse to cart my shopping up flights of stairs when I've paid for delivery!
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The one and only time I had my Shopping delivered without bags , the driver just kept bringing the trays full of goodies and dumping them first on the step and then on the drive (IT was a BIG shop) Then he just stood and watched me unload it all onto the floor in the hall.
Never again
Having said that I mostly go to the supermarket now as the shop is not as big (since children have left home) and always take re-usable shoppers so have very few plastic bags
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I shop Ocado and they charge 5p per bag but refund 5p per bag for ANYONES plastic bags returned. I therefore always have a bag full of bags which are returned to the driver at the next visit.
Ocado are super obliging; crates are carried to the door to prevent breakages etc, they then carry the bags through to the kitchen and deposit them on the kitchen table. Works like magic!
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Drivers deliver to my kitchen too bramble. They even help me unpack.
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I think Sainsbury's deliver to the kitchen, and at least Tesco bring it to the door of flats. Have to say there aren't many Asda deliveries round about since they changed policy
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go to the supermarket now as the shop is not as big (since children have left home) ;D
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I get the really heavy & bulky stuff delivered. Fruit, veg I prefer to pick myself.
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10p per bag now apparently. Well it's been that for 2 years where we shop, I try to take our own which are quite heavy.
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The rules in Wales are different to other parts of the U.K. , here all shops charge 5p not only large shops, the stupid thing is there is a 5p charge for paper bags and also small bags that they use to put meat into, I don't mean loose meat I mean already packaged but sometimes I want to keep it apart from the other shopping >:(
Christmas wrapping paper is in the firing line now >:( :-\
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I've sorted a lot of wrapping paper since Sunday, most will go into our home composting system to rot down. Or cut down and re-used next time :D old habits really do die hard.
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My husband received his Boundless magazine in the post today covered in a compostable bag. First one like that we've had. I'm about to put in our garden composter.
Gangan
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The Camping and Caravan magazines have done that for 6 months. I have tucked them into one corner of our compost heap to keep an eye on how fast they rot down.
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I have tucked them into one corner of our compost heap to keep an eye on how fast they rot down.
Good idea. We've now got a plastic bin composter instead of a heap as we only need small amounts of compost now. Will be interesting to see what happens.
Gangan
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We had one of those large plastic turn-it-over cylinders years ago, I couldn't turn it when it was empty >:( let alone when it was full ::)
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Just wondering what to do with a pile of online shopping plastic mail bags ? I have reused a lot in the past as we have sold a lot on Ebay after house contents sort out but the bags are now piling up as we've little left to sell on Ebay now.
Can you put them in something like the collection at Sainsburys for plastic bags ? Any suggestions please ? Charity shops seem to have their own bags now.
Gangan
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I recycle all mine at Sainsbury's
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Thanks Littleminnie i will take them there.
Gangan
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The local council here accepts all plastic for recycling. It can go in the recycling bin. Shame the scheme is not nationwide.
JP x
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Some plastics have to go to a Supermarket outlet as they can take what kerb side can't.
Those charity bags pushed through the letter box are used in this household to bring home trout ;-). A good bag for a good sized fish, works every time ........