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What do you do with your empties?
I use them as trash bags. Propped up in the garage and get filled with smaller bags from around the house. Also for trash in the hay shed and barn.
When I have a surplus, some make their way to folks with dog teams for dog poop.
Got more bags than trash.
If you take the time it takes, it takes less time. --Pat Parelli
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We use our dog food bags for outside trash. We put one standing up in a trashcan on the patio. It gets filled quickly.
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Mostly mine are grain bags, but I just bought a ton of alfalfa cubes in 50 # bags. I have more than I need.One in basement for junk mail/scrap paper, one in garage for trash, and one in the tack room for more trash. We don't put any garbage in them because of bears.Garbage can has to stay in closed garage until trash day.
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Saddlesore I am surprised the bears don't scent it and open the garage for a looksee.
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Burn, baby, burn.......
I reuse a bunch of them for mort bags and to pack retail sales, but still have way more than I can get rid of. No recycling option, so.....
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Mostly mine are grain bags, but I just bought a ton of alfalfa cubes in 50 # bags. I have more than I need.One in basement for junk mail/scrap paper, one in garage for trash, and one in the tack room for more trash. We don't put any garbage in them because of bears.Garbage can has to stay in closed garage until trash day. I essentially use them as garbage cans inside the garage until I smell it or have enough to go to the transfer site.
If you take the time it takes, it takes less time. --Pat Parelli
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I got in on the tail end of the feed sack dresses, and such.
These premises insured by a Sheltie in Training ,--- and Cooey.o "May the Good Lord take a likin' to you"
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I got in on the tail end of the feed sack dresses, and such. Pics?
If you take the time it takes, it takes less time. --Pat Parelli
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I remember 100# Flour and grain sacks that were flower print, and 50# Sugar sacks that had flowers on them, my Grandmother and Aunts would make what they called house dresses, from them and they would make kitchen towels called tea towels, from Sugar sacks, when my Mother passed away she had a closet full of hand made Quilts, Tea Towels, and home made Aprons, made from sacks.. waste not want not. Rio7
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Real hand made quilts.
Way before the fad, my wife made a quilt with wool I pulled off a dead ewe.
She washed, carded it, and filled a quilt.
My aunt made a quilt entirely the hard way.
That's in the cabin.
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I got in on the tail end of the feed sack dresses, and such. Pics? No Mike, that goes back to the mid fifties.
These premises insured by a Sheltie in Training ,--- and Cooey.o "May the Good Lord take a likin' to you"
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We had many quilts made from worn blankets. My mother would keep turning 3-4 blankets so all the worn spots were covered. This was in the early 50's
Most of the smaller towels, dish cloth etc.,were made from flour, sugar sacks. All of our shirts and two sister's dresses were sewn on a Singer treadle sewing machine
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I got in on the tail end of the feed sack dresses, and such. Pics? No Mike, that goes back to the mid fifties. I meant of you in one nem dresses! 🙈
If you take the time it takes, it takes less time. --Pat Parelli
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Don't hold yer breath Iron Mike.
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Mike, FDR wore a "Dress", I know a cousin was Baptized in a Christening gown. The style at the time.[img] https://home.nps.gov/common/uploads...g?width=307&quality=90&mode=crop[/img]
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Real hand made quilts.
Way before the fad, my wife made a quilt with wool I pulled off a dead ewe.
She washed, carded it, and filled a quilt.
My aunt made a quilt entirely the hard way.
That's in the cabin. I’ve still got the baby quilt my great Grandmother made for me in 1959. She was in her 80’s at the time. Lived to be 95. Last quilt she ever made. Mom told me it was made from scraps from her old dresses. I was the only Great Grandchild she made one for. 🤠
"Allways speak the truth and you will never have to remember what you said before..." Sam Houston Texans, "We say Grace, We Say Mam, If You Don't Like it, We Don't Give a Damn!"
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I remember 100# Flour and grain sacks that were flower print, and 50# Sugar sacks that had flowers on them, my Grandmother and Aunts would make what they called house dresses, from them and they would make kitchen towels called tea towels, from Sugar sacks, when my Mother passed away she had a closet full of hand made Quilts, Tea Towels, and home made Aprons, made from sacks.. waste not want not. Rio7
I found a bunch of those in an old chest in the barn of my Great Grandparents farm when I was a kid. Grandmother said her Mom made lots of stuff out of them.
"Allways speak the truth and you will never have to remember what you said before..." Sam Houston Texans, "We say Grace, We Say Mam, If You Don't Like it, We Don't Give a Damn!"
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My darling mother cut donuts out with a jar lid, and a thimble.
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These premises insured by a Sheltie in Training ,--- and Cooey.o "May the Good Lord take a likin' to you"
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