Comments on: What I Learned from Ziploc™ Bags

By: mameelynn

mameelynn — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:10:12 +0000

hahaha… I used to think my grandmother was nuts for washing them out too and like you I also would pull out a new one any chance I got so I didn’t have to use the inside out one in the dish rack. Now I’m married to a man that had an over abundance of Ziploc bags (my in-laws almost always have two Costco packs of both sizes and should when Costco is your livelihood!) So I don’t beg or wait till they go out of town to pilfer me some name brand baggies… I proudly walk over to the baggie cupboard(yes I said a cupboard full of baggies) and take a box or two! See I can’t even get Brad to bring home his containers from lunch so now he gets dollar store baggies for his stuff and the boys and I get the goods (washed out and used till death of course!)

By: Rachel

Rachel — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 02:09:28 +0000

Hee hee. I like Glad bags myself, but I get your point! With my mom it was peanut butter jars. Hundreds of peanut butter jars.

By: Geneva

Geneva — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:22:21 +0000

Not going to lie, I just two minutes ago pulled out a ziplock bag today and thought, “Maybe I should start washing these things out like my mom did.”

By: lindsay

lindsay — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:37:58 +0000

i’ve boycotted ziploc bags. it’s all about the off brand ones they sell at the dollar store. and even then, i’ll only use them for REALLY important things.

my mom saves all of her plastic bags too…but she takes it a step further. in order not to give me one of her precious third-cycle ziploc bags, she would wrap my school lunch sandwich in the huge bag that the whole loaf came in. oh the horror at my young elementary school table when i opened my lunch box to see that.

By: shalynna Crandall

shalynna Crandall — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:18:51 +0000

You won’t believe this…. just about an hour and a half ago when I was making mine and David’s lunches I made a mental note to buy more ziplock bags! I’m really cheap and usually buy the generic brand baggies that fold over, but when we moved back to Utah there was a box of 125 in the drawer. Those have lasted us for months and have been so convenient (no crumbs in my book bag from the cheap fold over bags), so I decided to start buying actual ziplocks. AND I’m not just going to buy the 30 count, I’m going to buy the 125 count.

My mom saves them too- mainly the big huge freezer ones. The part that grosses me out is right after the bag has been washes, so it’s kind of wet inside and then is air dried. Yuck.

By: Tisha

Tisha — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:11:22 +0000

You can actually get pretty decent zipper bags at the dollar store up here and then you don’t have to feel so bad tossing them! If they have a coupon at Costco, thats obviously a better deal, but for the interim, the dollar store works!! Also, there are lots of chemicals that can seep into your food the more you use the bags, & since I’m kind of a freak about that, we’re a one-use-per-baggie family!!

By: D'Rae

D'Rae — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:32:45 +0000

We use store brand. Much cheaper and they do the same job. Plus now that we have a foodsaver, we use much less plastic bags.