# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![cwthree](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de0a6/32.png) [@cwthree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cwthree)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2017, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-plastic-bag-filled-with-plastic-bags/791927/21 "2017-07-23T16:15:21Z")
I have a bag dispenser filled with plastic bags for picking up dog poop. It stays on the shelf more securely than a bag of bags. ---
**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, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-plastic-bag-filled-with-plastic-bags/791927/22 "2017-07-23T16:28:50Z")
> [@Quimby](#): > > …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. So do you? ---
**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, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-plastic-bag-filled-with-plastic-bags/791927/23 "2017-07-23T16:50:37Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > So do you? I do but I don’t like to prime the pump one way or the other so I usually hold off giving my answer 🙂 FWIW by “normal” I meant common for the person above who mentioned mental health 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2017, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-plastic-bag-filled-with-plastic-bags/791927/24 "2017-07-23T17:11:45Z")
I answered yes, although the truth is that it’s a big basket, not a bag. Anyway, yes, I collect plastic shopping bags, to use as trash bags, storage bags, and for carrying things around. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2017, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-plastic-bag-filled-with-plastic-bags/791927/25 "2017-07-23T17:23:45Z")
Mine sleep in a drawer, I make an effort to keep them from reproducing. The rolls of trash bags are in the same drawer. Mom keeps multiple bags, sorted by size of the bags inside, with the rolls of trash bags kept in the closet. I marked “yes”. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2017, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-plastic-bag-filled-with-plastic-bags/791927/26 "2017-07-23T17:41:04Z")
Yep – they’re perfect for emptying waste baskets and scooping the litterbox. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2017, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-plastic-bag-filled-with-plastic-bags/791927/27 "2017-07-23T17:57:54Z")
Yo, dog, I heard u like bags so I put your plastic bags in a plastic bag so you can scoop dog poop while you walk. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2017, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-plastic-bag-filled-with-plastic-bags/791927/28 "2017-07-23T17:58:15Z")
I don’t personally but there is one in the house since I share it with my father. His bag of bags has been moved across the country and back, probably through at least four moves. His bag of bread clips and twist ties is of similar vintage. [![](https://www.northernstar-online.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/true-or-false-tags.jpg) ](https://www.northernstar-online.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/true-or-false-tags.jpg) I do keep CVS bags for my bathroom trash but they are stuffed higgledy-piggledy\* in a drawer. \*Yes, I have been bingeing on The Great British Baking Show, how can you tell?? ---
**Author:** ![Sahirrnee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sahirrnee/32/13937_2.png) [@Sahirrnee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sahirrnee)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2017, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-plastic-bag-filled-with-plastic-bags/791927/29 "2017-07-23T18:16:39Z")
Way too many of them, they pile up faster than I can use them. Unfortunately, they can’t be used for recycling where I live. I have two kinds though. I use the thin grocery bags for kitty litter, and I plan on cutting some of them up to make another rug. I also get thicker bags that have handles and a flat bottom. I use them around the house a lot, especially for carrying things up and down the stairs. They are really good for carrying laundry, easier to handle than a laundry basket. I also save the thicker bags for family/friends who can use them for recycling. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2017, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-plastic-bag-filled-with-plastic-bags/791927/30 "2017-07-23T18:43:56Z")
No. We have a drawer. Back in Bangkok, it was the trash can attached to the door that swung out from under the sink. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2017, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-plastic-bag-filled-with-plastic-bags/791927/31 "2017-07-23T18:44:33Z")
> [@Quimby](#): > > …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. ISTM the OP missed sharing something. Was the discussion over the having of bags, or the specific uses to which bags are put? Big difference IMO. I have a bag of bags. My retail purchases almost always come home in those standard poly bags we all love to loath. The used bags go into a bag in the broom closet until that bag is full. Produce bags go into the same outer bag. Then the outer bag is tied closed, dropped in the recycling bin at the grocery store and the cycle begins anew. I do _not_ reuse those shopping bags. They’re far too flimsy and unreliable and small to use as trash can liners. I buy bags designed for that purpose. Nor are used shopping bags much good for anything else in my life. To me, reusing plastic shopping bags or deli takeout containers or yogurt tubs is Depression-era mental derangement. Not sound home ec. It’s making do, at significant inconvenience, with something that’s wholly unsuited to the task at hand. While reinforcing a scarcity mentality that probably doesn’t apply to 99% of the people who practice it. At great cost to their psyche. I don’t need to add that much difficulty to save a couple pennies a week. It’s a good bet that neither do (almost all of) you. ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2017, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-plastic-bag-filled-with-plastic-bags/791927/32 "2017-07-23T18:53:44Z")
I have three, but only one is in my home. I have one in the bathroom - they are the perfect size for my tiny bathroom trash can. I have one in my car - they hang perfectly from the gear shift and keep me from tossing trash on the floor of the car. I have one in my office drawer - because the primary place I pick up bags is running errands during lunchtime, so that’s where they accumulate for transfer to the car. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2017, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-plastic-bag-filled-with-plastic-bags/791927/33 "2017-07-23T18:56:10Z")
No. Used to, but the local supermarket (the only place that collected them), removed their bins. ---
**Author:** ![Iggy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iggy/32/3364_2.png) [@Iggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iggy)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2017, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-plastic-bag-filled-with-plastic-bags/791927/34 "2017-07-23T19:15:09Z")
Nope. There is an odd shaped cupboard that became the receptacle for plastic bags. Then the local supermarkets began to charge for them so we mostly switched to fabric reusable bags. After being good with fabric bags for a while I finally checked the plastic bag cupboard and found many of the bags already in an advanced state of decomposition, just fragments of white flaky powder. Turns out the supermarket had switched to some sort of bioplastic bags made from corn and those suckers decompose fast in tropical heat. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2017, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-plastic-bag-filled-with-plastic-bags/791927/35 "2017-07-23T20:11:15Z")
I have about five. I started saving them up a while back, stuffing them all into one bag, and it got full so I just tossed it under the sink. Rinse, repeat, fast forward two years and it’s time to move and I take the cleaning supplies out from under the sink and lo and behold I have struck the motherlode! I keep thinking I should take them to the grocery store to recycle them, but man, that’s a lot of effort. ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2017, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-plastic-bag-filled-with-plastic-bags/791927/36 "2017-07-23T20:22:23Z")
Yes, Kroger takes them back for recycling. ---
**Author:** ![seal\_cleaner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@seal\_cleaner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seal_cleaner)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2017, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-plastic-bag-filled-with-plastic-bags/791927/37 "2017-07-23T21:21:43Z")
> [@TheChileanBlob](#): > > I have a _fabric_ bag filled with plastic bags…that I use for dog poop. Same. That’s a standard low-end craft item, often in a whimsical dog shape. ---
**Author:** ![Arrendajo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Arrendajo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arrendajo)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2017, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-plastic-bag-filled-with-plastic-bags/791927/38 "2017-07-23T21:54:11Z")
Yes. My city outlawed them a few years ago, which was a real PITA because we use and reuse them for various things. So when we visited my dad recently in Idaho one of the things on our to-do list was bring back a couple bags of bags. Mission accomplished. ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2017, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-plastic-bag-filled-with-plastic-bags/791927/39 "2017-07-23T23:06:12Z")
I do but I use them for scooping cat litter and I find I am running out. I need to double bag since so many of them have holes and with the change to reusable bags I don’t have as many as I used to. I have actually been wondering what people who don’t use plastic bags for groceries use to scoop their cat litter. It seems to defeat the purpose of using recyclable grocery bags if you then have to buy plastic bags to use for cat litter. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2017, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-plastic-bag-filled-with-plastic-bags/791927/40 "2017-07-23T23:09:20Z")
Of course! What else would I do with them? I reuse and recycle as much as I can, and I have a paper grocery sack filled with paper bags, and plastic bags, for various reuses. When the bag gets overfilled, I pull some out and take them to a thrift store my church supports. I’m also a Luddite who still takes a dead-tree newspaper, and have a separate bag for THOSE bags; some I use as a glove to clean up cat barf, and extras go to the animal shelter. I also have a large Ziploc bag full of smaller Ziploc bags, because I do a lot of crafts and buy most of my supplies at thrift stores, which package them in those bags, and yes, I do reuse those whenever appropriate. 🆒 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-plastic-bag-filled-with-plastic-bags/791927.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-plastic-bag-filled-with-plastic-bags/791927.md?page=3)