I had a bit of a clean out of plastic bags. I still have plenty of old plastic supermarket bags. They are remarkably durable, a very good reason for them to be banned. Phyllis is embarrassed by my use of old plastic bags.
I think this may have been handed out Melbourne's Midsumma Carnival. Interestingly,
the website about STDs is still there and full of good information for gay men.
I've never understood The Telegraph and The Daily Telegraph. I think they are both English and both of a conservative bent. Again who knows where that came from.
I will guess this came from my friend in Launceston. I've certainly never been in the
Launceston Lighting Centre. The business is still operating. I wonder if
Margaret ever bought a 40W frosted light bulb there?
Maggie Beer is a much lauded Australian cook, not a chef. Tv. radio, books, her own shop, instrumental in improving food in nursing homes. She is fabulous. But we never had contact with her, so where did the bag come from?
There has been a Dali exhibition in Melbourne, and we went, but we didn't buy anything. Again I've no idea where this came from.
I think this was to promote a sex lubricant, again possibly from a Midsumma Carnival. This doesn't seem to be available now.
I assume this is South Asian writing, a Phyllis bag,
In English, again a Phyllis contribution.
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So many lovely bags, so many mysteries:)
ReplyDeletePixie, memories in bags...yes there are some.
DeleteThose are plastic?! They look almost like canvas to me. Here we have many misremembered and/or forgotten items. lol Best wishes.
ReplyDeleteI agree... the photos look like excellent, long lasting cotton and not terrible plastic. Even though we cannot avoid plastic altogether in a supermarket, we can keep it to a bare minimum.
DeleteDarla, only the Telegraph bag is calico. The others are woven plastic. I still have a good stock of smooth plastic bags.
DeleteSadly Hels, most of them are woven plastic. But they last forever, which is good for me, but not if they are soon discarded.
DeleteI never heard of woven plastic bags. Cool!
DeleteWho knows that plastic bags might become sexy again 10 years later
ReplyDeleteYep Ronentare. I am fashionable years before I am.
DeleteThere is a conspicuous virtue in taking old bags shopping. The older the better.
ReplyDeleteConspicuous virtue. I like that MC, and wear the badge with pride. I haven't really noticed others with old bags like I have. No wonder I am embarrassing Phyllis.
DeleteMystery bags. I have a couple with Hindi writing so I assume from an Indian friend, since I don't shop in Hindi shops.
ReplyDeleteOr Boud, at some point you bought a large bag of rice because it was cheap.
DeleteI think you got it! Yes. At the Asian store.
DeleteThose actually look like nice plastic bags that were meant to be reused...not one bit if shame to that!
ReplyDeleteDebby, there is nothing wrong with them. They can carry huge weight, like five kg, 2.2 lb to the kg.
DeleteIf you're saving plastic bags rather than throwing them away, it doesn't seem like you're really damaging the environment.
ReplyDeleteKirk, quite so. I am very virtuous. I even rip the label off my plastic water bottles when I replace them every two or three months, lest anyone think I buy drinking water all the time at a shop. I just refill them from the tap.
DeleteYou do have a good selection there Andrew. We don't have plastic bags from shopping left.
ReplyDeleteYes, we sometimes shop and the Launceston Lightening Center.
Margaret, the lighting shop looked pretty damned good to me.
DeleteA great collection, Andrew. My reusable collection keeps growing. I never have to buy the critters. People use them now for gifts, forgoing gift wrap. I use brand new tea-towels for gift wrap and have forever. Converted a lot of people.
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WWW, you have immediately converted me to using tea towels as wrapping paper...ah, but I don't really give physical presents now, aside from the one I gave my 80 year old neighbour last week.
DeleteThe "Telegraph" bag has Chelsea Flower Show 2012 stamped on it, so I'd say that's where it came from, did you and Ray attend and buy something there? The Maggie Beer one looks to be the same "fabric" as the supermarket bags, which are machine washable. They all look to be good quality bags.
ReplyDeleteWell River, we never visited the Chelsea Flower Show either. It is a brag bag. Yes, they are woven plastic and very strong.
Delete"I'll have pint of Maggie Beer please! Full-bodied with a nice frothy head. Ah lovely! I will down her in one!"
ReplyDeleteSounds like Phyllis needs a few lessons in the importance of reusing material items as much as possible. If he threw out my old bags I would be throwing him out - along with his K-pop records.
YP, she was full bodied but did lose a lot of weight. The lads aren't too bad about such things, given their backgrounds. Records, lol.
DeleteMemories come in different guises, but apparently not in bags for you!
ReplyDeleteJB, no, mostly because we haven't been to such places.
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ReplyDelete"Darling we've run out of inflatable kayaks" is the logo on a Lidl bag containing granddaughters bits and pieces. We have bags from the charity shop for containing all the cardboard from the things people here keep ordering. Makes the refuse collectors cross and they get confiscated...
That labelling is a bit weird Thelma, but I like it. Our cardboard goes in mixed recycling, unless it a large box, which must be flattened and put in separate bin.
DeleteI have a large collection of reusable shopping bags, there are probably 20 in my car.
ReplyDeleteI'd probably have more than that in my car boot, TP.
DeleteI had a nice bag from the Tate Modern which I loved but have somehow lost.
ReplyDeleteWhat a pity you lost your brag bag, Pat.
DeleteI have a ton too, but they're mostly cloth or canvas, as plastic grocery bags are now banned here in Oregon. It was tough at first only, now it isn't. It was a good thing, but only a start really to get all the trash and forever plastics out of landfills and more importantly, the oceans.
ReplyDeleteStrayer, they are banned here but there are a few exceptions. Supermarkets now make you pay something like 25c for a paper bag. The good,is plastic bags aren't blowing around the streets and causing bad pollution as you describe.
DeleteThat first one is hilarious, but I'm not sure how I'd feel about carrying it in public! LOL
ReplyDeleteSteve, we may have carried on the day we were given it, but I doubt ever since.
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