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SWBTATTReg

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4. Don't say you're cheap. Say simply that you're just still using them, they're still good. Just because they're used

Reply to Shellback Squid (Original post)

Wed Jan 29, 2025, 07:58 PM

Jan 2025

once, doesn't mean throw them away. You're just thrifty. Nothing at all wrong w/ this, and you're helping our environment, by not disposing of anymore 'trash' until you're absolutely ready too. I wash my baggies out all of the time, reuse them. Now if the baggie is really yucky, and contained a meat (I don't really reuse those baggies I use to store meats in), I don't reuse, unless it's for a non-food item to store something else in the house other than foodstuffs.

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I don't know if I'm alone in this practice but I wash and re-use vacuum storage bags, trim off the welded [View all] Shellback Squid Jan 2025 OP

Me too. There is usually an awful lot of bag left. likesmountains 52 Jan 2025 #1

I do the same thing. MiKenMi33 Jan 2025 #2

I turn them inside out and put them in the dishwasher iwillalwayswonderwhy Jan 2025 #3

Great idea! dhol82 Jan 2025 #5

I put a small bulldog clip to one of the posts. iwillalwayswonderwhy Jan 2025 #7

Don't say you're cheap. Say simply that you're just still using them, they're still good. Just because they're used SWBTATTReg Jan 2025 #4

I reuse zip loc bags. I also reuse chemex coffee filters. They are quite thick and easy to clean. They are four square mitch96 Jan 2025 #6

I reuse any plastic bags I can Marthe48 Feb 2025 #8

You can get reusable ones. sir pball Feb 2025 #9

We do too. Rolls of vacuum seal plastic Emile Feb 2025 #10