It’s not a good way of reusing, but I carry my lunch in a grocery bag. So, at most our grocery bags have two uses before it’s cast to the landfills to never biodegrade. I could iron them together and make a crafts [link] but really I don’t have the utility or the motivation.

Unfortunately, failing to re-reuse is my downfall. For very personal reasons, I have put us on a very strict budget which has directly impacted our plastic bag income. All grocery shopping will be done by me to curb frivolous expenses. I buy only what we absolutely need and I leave the grocery store with only one or two plastic bags.

The garden provides us with the produce we need, we can go without the luxury of tropical fruit such as bananas, and meat doesn’t have to be served every day. We are living from plastic bag to plastic bag.

I think this says a lot about how we’ve been consuming. When times are free-wheeling, we buy a lot and thus a surplus of plastic bags. As we spend less and give out the glut of our vegetables, we have a shortage of plastic bags.

The plastic bag as economic indicator, the grocery bag index.