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So does my mom, and I sort of do, too. They have distinct textures, though - hand towels are fuzzy or waffle-weave, dish towels are smooth.
Now I totally get it -- and also, the different towels go in different places in her kitchen! It was just one of those things that, as a kid, I couldn't care enough about to get.
For drying plastic bags, I have one of these: [link]
But sometimes I get lazy and toss them.
I try to avoid them when I can.
My MiL will only use a towel ONCE. This includes hand and dishtowels. One of the reasons her family refers to her as "The Queen of England."
For plastic bags, I usually re-use for the same thing as long as possible -- like, I have cheese in a ziploc in my fridge, and just put the new cheese in the same bag.
This actually fits my recurring theme of being "green" more out of laziness and/or cheapness than anything else.
This sounds like a job for your husband.
I just sent him an email telling him to pick some up on the way home!
I am a ziploc bag fiend. I really should re-use. Or at least recycle more consistently--I tend to only recycle plastic food containers I bought food in, for some reason.
Actually, most of my ziploc use is non-food. Office supplies! Peripherals and cables!
I just sent him an email telling him to pick some up on the way home!
::high fives Cash and flea::
recycle plastic food containers
We can't recycle those here, only plastic bottles.
So a vendor called me this morning. He wanted to know if I would be in all day, becuase gift baskets they had ordered for us got sent to their office instead of ours by mistake. I assured him I would be here. He kept using "you". Like "I wanted to make sure you would be there. It was important you got yours." So I thought I was actually getting one. They just came, 3 big boxes, not one for me. Poop.
For plastic bags, I usually re-use for the same thing as long as possible -- like, I have cheese in a ziploc in my fridge, and just put the new cheese in the same bag.
I do this, too! But I try to use plastic containers as much as possible.
recycle plastic food containers
We can't recycle those here, only plastic bottles.
Our plastic recycling is by number (#1 and #2 only), not by what the plastic thing is (i.e., bottle, hummus container, etc). Trader Joe's uses a LOT of #2 plastic for their stuff, which is awesome since we can recycle it.
We can't recycle those here, only plastic bottles.
ditto in NY, although people contantly throw them into the recycling.