# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![Flughund4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f17d59/32.png) [@Flughund4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flughund4)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2017, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-plastic-bag-filled-with-plastic-bags/791927/41 "2017-07-24T00:01:55Z")
I have a bag of bags of bags. They’ve achieved nesting. 🙂 ---
**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 24, 2017, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-plastic-bag-filled-with-plastic-bags/791927/42 "2017-07-24T00:07:15Z")
But now that they’ve made a nest will they reproduce? Will you be like the fairy tale kid with the multiplying brooms, running about madly trying to keep your house from overflowing with rapidly reproducing bags? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Ulfreida](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ulfreida/32/8014_2.png) [@Ulfreida](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulfreida)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2017, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-plastic-bag-filled-with-plastic-bags/791927/43 "2017-07-24T00:15:27Z")
We use our plastic bags for produce and bulk grains etc. (most of my shopping is at the natural foods store and the farmers market). We wash them and reuse them many times. I’ve done this for forty years. My county banned single use plastic bags some years ago. I barely noticed. We very rarely use paper bags for anything, might have one or two in the house at any given time. Of course I use cloth grocery bags. Some of mine date from the previous century. If you want me to tell you all about how we don’t use facial tissues or paper towels either, just ask . . . ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2017, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-plastic-bag-filled-with-plastic-bags/791927/44 "2017-07-24T00:48:19Z")
Usually one. When a second gets full I tie it off and put it in recycling. Which is what I use the other ones for as well since we don’t use cans in my city for recycling as a rule. ---
**Author:** ![installLSC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/54ee81/32.png) [@installLSC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/installLSC)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2017, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-plastic-bag-filled-with-plastic-bags/791927/45 "2017-07-24T01:16:17Z")
Absoutely, and that was before my hometown of Tacoma outlawed plastic bags this month. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2017, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-plastic-bag-filled-with-plastic-bags/791927/46 "2017-07-24T01:39:52Z")
I have a reusable shopping bag from Trader Joe’s filled with plastic shopping bags. I also have a two gallon sized Ziploc full of smaller zip-lock bags. ---
**Author:** ![scr4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@scr4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scr4)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2017, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-plastic-bag-filled-with-plastic-bags/791927/47 "2017-07-24T01:53:49Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > I know why. A few years ago, I started using my own shopping bags. … If I need a plastic bag, I’m hard-pressed to locate one in the house. Do you not use plastic bags to line your trash cans? Or wrap up messy trash? ---
**Author:** ![brainstall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/35a633/32.png) [@brainstall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brainstall)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2017, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-plastic-bag-filled-with-plastic-bags/791927/48 "2017-07-24T14:27:25Z")
I have an IKEA bag holder full of bags by the back door. They get used for dog poop mostly, though with three dogs, I don’t do enough grocery shopping to keep me supplied, so usually buy poop bags on a roll. Cat litter gets scooped into used plastic courier bags I divert from the garbage at my work. Nice heavy plastic that doesn’t rip or puncture easily so I didn’t leave a trail of litter from the box to the back door garbage can. There’s also a pile of bags stuffed into a bin in the kitchen so they can be used as garbage bags. So, I don’t have a bag of bags, but I do have plastic bags. ---
**Author:** ![Pabitel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bbce88/32.png) [@Pabitel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pabitel)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2017, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-plastic-bag-filled-with-plastic-bags/791927/49 "2017-07-24T14:34:46Z")
Actually it’s a box. ---
**Author:** ![JpnDude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/838e76/32.png) [@JpnDude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JpnDude)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2017, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-plastic-bag-filled-with-plastic-bags/791927/50 "2017-07-25T06:39:47Z")
I have a big vinyl bag from **Tokyo Disney Resort** full of smaller plastic bags of **Tokyo Disney Resort**. Not for garbage, but for my collection. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2017, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-plastic-bag-filled-with-plastic-bags/791927/51 "2017-07-25T19:56:25Z")
I have two bags of bags. One is for the catbox, the other is for bags I’m going to (eventually) cut up and crochet into [another plastic bag](http://amandashappyhearth.blogspot.com/2010/09/ultimate-recycled-market-bag.html). ---
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2017, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-plastic-bag-filled-with-plastic-bags/791927/52 "2017-07-25T20:39:06Z")
We have a fabric bag full of paper bags. When it gets full, we take them to the food shelf at my mother’s church, as they go through a ton of paper bags. Like many other posters, we have a large bag full pf plastic bags, used for trash liners and kitty litter. In the back of my vehicle I have a slew of fabric bags, to be used while shopping. Which we never remember to bring into the store. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2017, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-plastic-bag-filled-with-plastic-bags/791927/53 "2017-07-25T21:04:55Z")
We have a giant Target bag filled with smaller bags filled with other bags. It’s about bean bag chair sized. We acquire more bags than we use, so it’s continually growing. We really need to get rid of that thing; it’s taken over an entire corner of the kitchen. ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2017, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-plastic-bag-filled-with-plastic-bags/791927/54 "2017-07-25T21:08:59Z")
We have a dog food bag, one of them forty-pounders, full of plastic bags. Used to use them for dog poop. Dogs been gone for two years, the bag remains. ---
**Author:** ![BeeGee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b5a626/32.png) [@BeeGee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeeGee)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2017, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-plastic-bag-filled-with-plastic-bags/791927/55 "2017-07-25T21:15:16Z")
My grocery stores don’t use those bags any more. I use rip stop nylon reusable bags that are strong and don’t take up much space. When the stores did use those bags, I still didn’t keep them. It’s a left over from my disastrous marriage where my ex used to like hauling around things like plastic bags and paper that were a breeding ground for cockroaches. I keep none of that stuff. Even when my stores used those bags, I hated using them for trash can liners or for holding kitty litter. I buy a small roll of the smallest size trash bags for kitty litter. Some bags I don’t EVER want springing a hole; that’s one. ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2017, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-plastic-bag-filled-with-plastic-bags/791927/56 "2017-07-25T21:30:39Z")
I keep most of the bags in a large plastic bag. I also have a wooden box with plastic bags in them I bought at a craft fair years ago. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2017, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-plastic-bag-filled-with-plastic-bags/791927/57 "2017-07-26T02:40:20Z")
I have two boxes. One is for the standard size grocery bags that I use for lining wastebaskets and collecting dog poop. The other is for odd-sized bags, newspaper wrappers and similar stuff that I don’t have a use for. When that box gets full I take it to a store with a recycling bin. I use recyclable grocery bags, so the collection doesn’t get too large too quickly. ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2017, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-plastic-bag-filled-with-plastic-bags/791927/58 "2017-07-26T03:46:57Z")
I have a bag full of plastic bags. I have several fabric bags that I leave by the front door so I will remember to take them to the store when I shop. I acquire more plastic bags by forgetting to pick up the fabric bags that I leave by the front door so I will remember to take them with me when I shop. ---
**Author:** ![GrumpyBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2017, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-plastic-bag-filled-with-plastic-bags/791927/59 "2017-07-26T11:22:14Z")
> [@TheChileanBlob](#): > > I have a _fabric_ bag filled with plastic bags…that I use for dog poop. Ditto, only mine is used for cat poop or lining trash cans. ---
**Author:** ![kiz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7feea3/32.png) [@kiz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kiz)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2017, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-plastic-bag-filled-with-plastic-bags/791927/60 "2017-07-26T13:01:58Z")
> [@JackieLikesVariety](#): > > where else would I keep my plastic bags? I use them for dog poop. Exactly. Why should I spent $$$ on bags specifically made for dog poop when I already have a bunch of bags at my disposal? I also use them to line bathroom wastebaskets. I’ve been cutting back here and there by using my own bags when I go grocery shopping. That is, if I remember to take them with me. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-plastic-bag-filled-with-plastic-bags/791927.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-plastic-bag-filled-with-plastic-bags/791927.md?page=4)