I unironically want them. No more plastic bags where I live, so I'm running on reserve. I only have a few years stockpile left.
this post was submitted on 21 Jul 2026
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You mean the very thin single use ones? What do you need them for and can't you buy them? Can't you use other kind of bags?
can't you buy them
I mean, that's the point; you didn't have to. Never had to think about it, they were just there and free, accumulated from the groceries I brought home. I used them for small trashcan liners and to clean out the cat litterbox.
Yeah I use other bags for other things now. I used cloth for groceries and instead of reusing the grocery bag, now I buy plastic garbage bags...
I reuse plastic packaging of things I buy for trash. Plastic bag from toilet paper fits the trash can perfectly
That's a really good idea.. I didn't think to use the tp bag.
I have the new plastic bags, here. The ones that are supposed to replace the old ones, but are just THICC plastic and cost $0.10-$0.50 each. You'd think I'd go "oh wow, more robust, is better!" But it feels so much less guilt free and so not only do I not get them as often, but don't use them because it would be wasteful if I did use them, and they're still a shitty "disposable" plastic bag and not trustworthy for important stuff.
Yeah it's interesting to see it all change. Ups and downs.
People don't use them as trash bags for small trash cans?
I ran out of my bags last year, but that was the whole purpose of them
well we did until they made us buy a heavier duty product that takes way more resources to get inside my house
I used to, until my state made stores stop giving out plastic bags.
Now I have to buy trash bags. But I go out of my way to buy compostable ones because buying single-use plastic to replace double-used plastic would defeat the point of all of this.
What horrible 19th century plague do you think the subject of this painting was dying of?
Unfortunately, Wikipedia (French) doesn't provide any information regarding the illness the (already 2 hours dead) woman had been suffering of. If she didn't die from a 17th century disease, it could also be a post partum death.
Tuberculosis
Her kids singing baby shark just out of frame.
If they were checked for holes first, that’s a useful collection.
we also have to pull the local supermarket ones out and use them first, because they're made of a different plastic that turns to flakes and powder after a year or two.
I live life on the edge, I don't check for holes before I pick up the dog doo
Does she have any ziplocks? That's where the real value is.
2 is 1, 1 is none.
There should be 2 plastic bags of plastic bags. 1 to hold clean food safe bags, the other to hold non clean bags to line the garbage baskets.
Which one, paper or plastic? The good ones, or the small ones, or the regular ones, or the big ones?
Yes
"They were never used as I kept forgetting them at home, so to my great-grandchildren I leave this mountain of semi-decomposed disposable bags I never threw away just in case"
Wait, then what's she going to use for her coffin?
Hell yeah! I do love me some garbage that has yet to enter a landfill!
I upgraded my parent bag to a box, ha
Oh hell yeah! They don't make those anymore!
The reusable bags mandated in my country are now just even more wasteful disposable bags... Especially when they're made out of this plastic that goes brittle and dry rots over time. Eventually the bag can't hold anything without ripping so it needs to be thrown out. Sometimes in less than a year...