Bags for bloody life...

[YoureAllABunchOfBastards]

Just tidied out the cupboard of doom. We have at least fifty of those huge bags for life - the ones you get from Aldi, Sainsbury's etc with webbing handles. I am never going to need that many, ever. But wtf do I do with them? Can you recycle them? Is there some cunning use for them I am missing? Honestly, it's like an episode of bloody Hoarders R Us...

Donate them to the local food bank

Or use as bin liners.

Put 10 in the car so you don't buy any more when you go shopping

Agree, put half of them in the car!

I don't have that many (only about 6) but I find them really useful as laundry bags. Dc have one each for dirty laundry, bring them down once a week, then reloaded with clean laundry and taken back upstairs.

They are the reason I no longer have teetering piles of laundry waiting to be put away, and why the teens' bedroom floors are no longer strewn with discarded clothes.

They are good for gardening too, collecting weeds and grass clippings etc.

or take them to a local charity shop they always need extra bags

Order an Ocado shop and hand them to the driver, they pay 10p a bag and they don't have to be their own.

I managed to get loads over lockdown when they wouldn't take them back and couldn't find a charity shop anywhere that would take them.

My local foodbank love being given the heavy duty shopping and reusable bags. Maybe worth asking yours if they could use them?

you can donate them at waitrose, and possibly tesco.

or give them to me

@Sirzy

Donate them to the local food bank

Yep. They’re always asking for them

Dont just chuck them - nil points to anyone saying that. Definately donate to a food bank.

Fab - I have emailed the food bank to see if they want them.

I could probably pay for my entire Christmas food shop if I gave them to Ocado...

Great yes food bank will love them

@YoureAllABunchOfBastards

Fab - I have emailed the food bank to see if they want them.

I could probably pay for my entire Christmas food shop if I gave them to Ocado...

If they don’t want them then co op, & some Lidl stores, recycle soft plastics like carrier bags.

i feel your pain. When i open my boot it's like air bags have gone off. It's so full of them

@YoureAllABunchOfBastards

Fab - I have emailed the food bank to see if they want them.

I could probably pay for my entire Christmas food shop if I gave them to Ocado...

From memory you can return up to 99 as well so it’s a nice saving.

Just pop them in the food bank collection at any supermarket. Local food banks do share resources so if one has a surplus of bags (unlikely) they will just pass them on.