# Do you have a plastic bag filled with plastic bags... **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 23, 2017, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-plastic-bag-filled-with-plastic-bags/791927 "2017-07-23T11:37:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2017, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-plastic-bag-filled-with-plastic-bags/791927/1 "2017-07-23T11:37:37Z")
…somewhere in your home? For when you need a plastic bag to line a trash can etc.? I had a discussion over whether this is normal. ---
**Author:** ![JackieLikesVariety](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackielikesvariety/32/296_2.png) [@JackieLikesVariety](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JackieLikesVariety)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2017, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-plastic-bag-filled-with-plastic-bags/791927/2 "2017-07-23T11:49:40Z")
where else would I keep my plastic bags? I use them for dog poop. ---
**Author:** ![TheChileanBlob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thechileanblob/32/435_2.png) [@TheChileanBlob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheChileanBlob)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2017, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-plastic-bag-filled-with-plastic-bags/791927/3 "2017-07-23T12:10:10Z")
I have a _fabric_ bag filled with plastic bags…that I use for dog poop. ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2017, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-plastic-bag-filled-with-plastic-bags/791927/4 "2017-07-23T12:48:52Z")
I have three. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2017, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-plastic-bag-filled-with-plastic-bags/791927/5 "2017-07-23T12:52:52Z")
The stores in my county have started charging for plastic bags to get people to be more environmentally friendly. But we still need them and use them for all kinds stuff. So I don’t have a plastic bag full of plastic bags. I have a box. I buy 'em from Amazon. 500 of them at a time. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2017, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-plastic-bag-filled-with-plastic-bags/791927/6 "2017-07-23T13:28:53Z")
I don’t, but the “why” doesn’t apply. I know why. A few years ago, I started using my own shopping bags. I keep a bunch of them in the trunk of my car, and regularly carry the emptied ones from the house back to the car. I take them into most stores with me now, not just grocery stores. If I need a plastic bag, I’m hard-pressed to locate one in the house. ---
**Author:** ![Aquadementia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aquadementia/32/555_2.png) [@Aquadementia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aquadementia)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2017, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-plastic-bag-filled-with-plastic-bags/791927/7 "2017-07-23T13:44:17Z")
I’ve accumulated a couple bags of bags. Time to melt them into a block again, or maybe a cylinder or pie plate shape. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2017, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-plastic-bag-filled-with-plastic-bags/791927/8 "2017-07-23T13:47:51Z")
I have a paper bag filled with plastic bags, which I need for scooping cat boxes. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2017, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-plastic-bag-filled-with-plastic-bags/791927/9 "2017-07-23T13:56:18Z")
I have a nylon bag, zippered opening/closure, filled with plastic bags. I voted Yes. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2017, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-plastic-bag-filled-with-plastic-bags/791927/10 "2017-07-23T14:12:31Z")
There is a box full of plastic bags filled with plastic bags in my house. These are grocery bags made of that flimsy material that exist on the borderline between substance and vacuum. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2017, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-plastic-bag-filled-with-plastic-bags/791927/11 "2017-07-23T14:16:10Z")
I have 2 currently, I should have brought most of them back to the store for recycling yesterday. I recycle as much as possible though. I could use some more paper bags actually. I use the full size ones to recycle junk mail and used paper. ---
**Author:** ![igor\_frankensteen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/839c29/32.png) [@igor\_frankensteen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/igor_frankensteen)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2017, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-plastic-bag-filled-with-plastic-bags/791927/12 "2017-07-23T14:20:26Z")
I don’t, but almost everyone else I know does. It has nothing to do with mental health either way. Unless you mean the old school, mathematical meaning of normal, as in common. In that case, it’s “normal” for the people who purposely hold on to plastic bags to reuse them later for whatever, to use one bag to contain all the others. After all, reusing a grocery bag as a container for reusable grocery bags, is an act of reusing a grocery bag. Me, I don’t MIND having a pile of used bags stuffed in a corner, and it doesn’t improve things for me to stuff them into another bag, so I don’t. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2017, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-plastic-bag-filled-with-plastic-bags/791927/13 "2017-07-23T14:45:22Z")
All our Walmart bags go into a large Walmart bag and get returned to Walmart when the bag is full, as Walmart has a recycle box in Walmart’s lobby. Guess where we shop? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2017, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-plastic-bag-filled-with-plastic-bags/791927/14 "2017-07-23T15:29:37Z")
I’ve got [one of these doodads.](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007ZF638G) It’s a wonderful device. The bags are used for cat poop. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2017, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-plastic-bag-filled-with-plastic-bags/791927/15 "2017-07-23T15:39:12Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > All our Walmart bags go into a large Walmart bag and get returned to Walmart when the bag is full, as Walmart has a recycle box in Walmart’s lobby. Guess where we shop? Targets? ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2017, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-plastic-bag-filled-with-plastic-bags/791927/16 "2017-07-23T15:44:50Z")
A small wire rack, on a kitchen cabinet door, that serves the same need. ---
**Author:** ![Patx2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/73ab20/32.png) [@Patx2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patx2)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2017, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-plastic-bag-filled-with-plastic-bags/791927/17 "2017-07-23T15:46:45Z")
Yes, several ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2017, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-plastic-bag-filled-with-plastic-bags/791927/18 "2017-07-23T15:48:27Z")
There are plastic bags filled with plastic bags in our suitcases. There is a plastic bag filled with plastic bags in the utility room for cleaning cat boxes. There is a plastic bag filled with plastic bags in the garage. The back of the car has a shopping bag filled with shopping bags. Not the plastic ones, but the nice cloth ones they have for sale and that some places give away as freebies sometimes. Maybe a dozen of them. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2017, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-plastic-bag-filled-with-plastic-bags/791927/19 "2017-07-23T15:48:50Z")
We have a bag holder but the net result is still a cache of old grocery bags which I assume is the real question. So I voted yes. Mainly for dirty pull-ups and litter box cleaning. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2017, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-plastic-bag-filled-with-plastic-bags/791927/20 "2017-07-23T16:08:03Z")
Plastic waste paper receptacles under the kitchen sink. Shopping bags used for bottle/can recycling; produce bags used to wrap leftover onions, lemons, etc.; newspaper delivery bags used for poodle poop. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-plastic-bag-filled-with-plastic-bags/791927.md?page=2)