Ladybird Bags

I buy the kitchen size bags. I need the room....

So you're still using plastic.

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13 qt kitchen trash bags, and 33 gall black bags. We accumulate a lot of garbage, especially since Jim has been going through all his stuff and is throwing out items he hasn't used for the last 10 years! I see people here trotting to the dumpster, or more likely riding the golf cart, with a teeny bag of trash. I think a lot of them eat out, which we don't do, and probably are not big on newspapers and magazines.

Gill

I'm one of those who keep the economy thriving by eating out a lot. And one person and a tiny dog doesn't create a great deal of garbage even when I'm home. Newspapers and jars are recycled separately so the little grocery bags are most times all I need.

True, but I found the grocery bags too small and too flimsy... C

My trash goes to a landfill. There was talk about an incinerator power plant, wish they'd do that. They are in Europe and do work on municipal sized loads.

C

Mine goes to a landfill as well. I wonder about incinerator power. Does it pollute the air when burning the garbage?

Lucille

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I do giggle at the absurd thought of HRH, dressed in a blue and white striped apron behind the counter!! Tying up the purchases in brown paper and string! Remember that? A little loop to put it over your finger if it was a small parcel.

Gill

He was in residence at that point - security in evidence - but I don't think he appears in his store in Tetbury. However, I understand all profits go to a youth fund he started which has had tremendous success with disadvantaged youth, so that's a good thing. All the stuff in the shop was very nice, I could have purchased much more but didn't. Some of the edibles looked very scrumptious.

It was in an old building and the counter was an old, heavy wood one though. My goods were carefully placed in a very nice heavy brown paper carrier with string handles lol

The exhaust can be "scrubbed" to be quite clean.

C

I hope so because if NH went that route, guess who is going to be breathing in the fumes ???

About 20 years ago we visited Bolton Castle in the Yorkshire Dales; this was before the castle was the tourist attraction that it is today and everything was ever so slightly "amateurish" but in the most charming way. There was a small cafe so while Maureen and her friend, both history buffs, disappeared to explore the place more thoroughly I decided to have a snack and a cup of coffee. I chatted with the chap behind the counter and the lady who served me before settling down to tuck into my delicious meal. When Maureen and her friend returned an hour or so later they also chatted to the folk behind the counter before joining me at the table. It was only later that they told me that the man behind the counter was Harry Orde-Powlett, 8th Lord Bolton and the lady who served me was his wife; they were trying to make a go of the place and were not afraid to roll up their sleeves and get stuck into the work.

What I had heard about was smaller towns doing this. Frankly, properly done, you wouldn't know the difference between trash and natural gas. C

Lucille

I don't read every message and don't know why I read this one ... Y'all are talking about where I grew up in Brooklyn -- Sheepshead Bay, Marine Park.

Shifting sand made it impractical for residential or commercial development way back then. We're smarter now and preserve some of natural wonders and beauty or at least I hope we are ... oy vey ... I just opened the door for a discussion about man's needs versus environmental protection.

Not Sheepshead Bay. Closer to the Queens border in East New York.

Yes, it's been built up and there's a tremendous reasonably priced apartment complex called Starret City.

Good idea.

I had a cheesy tee shirt with some great applique and embroidered work done by indigenous women in Honduras. I sewed it onto a better quality tank top, and when THAT gets ratty, I will transfer it to a small tote I got from some charity as a thank you. I hate bags with ads or writing on them. Thanks for the idea. I also have some latchhook pillows which don't go with my color scheme anymore - maybe I'll transfer those too.

I have some great fabric from an old bedskirt and could make a tote outta too. Waste not.....

What goes around - I have an old bedskirt made with Laura Ashley fabric that I could not bring myself to chuck, I should get going on ideas to use that.