I’m sorry, after a few months it’s dozens. It feels ridiculous to throw out perfectly useful bags that you have no earthly use for.
Many people use delivery service for groceries. We used to get plastic or paper, both easily re-used or recycled. Now we get cotton bags which are neither. The delivery services won’t take them back.
“Now we get cotton bags which are neither.”
Something that nice...I’d probably hold onto also! It does seem to be a waste to throw away.
We do most of our food shopping at Sam’s Club, with only the occasional trip to the regular grocery store. Sam’s supplies their used stocking boxes, but that’s hit or miss. We now just carry a couple of those black Home Depot “plastic” crates in the back of the truck. We load the cart in Sam’s, roll it out to the truck, reload the purchases in the crates, get home and carry the crates in the house, stock the shelves from the crates. May take a couple trips to the truck. If we DID bring boxes home, the empty boxes wind up on the garage floor until they’re broken down and put in the recycle.
We now actually find ourselves running out of the single-use plastic bags. We’re more likely to have used Lowe’s (hardware) bags than grocery bags. LOL.
Make up a bucket of 10 to 1 water to bleach and dunk the cotton bags until thoroughly wet, wring them out, then set them out in the sun to dry. That is a sterilizing method for cotton ‘things’.
Will Goodwill or Habitat take the bags?