Empty Dumor Crumble bags...UPDATE!!!!!

[gmendoza]

Anyone here know good uses for empty dumor layer crumble bags? I need a brain storm.I have many that I am saving for some unknown reason.

Help!!

 

[easttxchick]

Is it the plastic lined bags?
If so, we use them as garbage bags and also transfer our grit and oyster shell into them-the bottom always falls out of grit and oyster shell bags on my DH.

 

[bakerjw]

Some have made flat bottom tote bags from their Purina bags. I made one and it was pretty simple and everyone seemed to like it. I also tried to come up with a use for them. They're good for garbage that would tear up a normal bag.

 

[jerseygirl1]

I split them all the way around and line the floor under the roosts with them, instead of a poop board. Once a week I throw them away

 

[easttxchick]

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That's a GREAT idea! Thanks for sharing that.

 

[Sunny Side Up]

I don't throw them away without giving them at least one more use. Both the paper & the plastic bags are handy for a lot of things. They're often called into use to shade a pen or cage. They're also very good for collecting the pine needles we rake up from local parks for use as bedding & flooring for the coops.

 

[chicmom]

I use them for a few things:

I have a chick brooder in my basement storage room, and I take the bags, flatten them out, and I put them around the outside of the brooder (not inside--that would be slippery for chicks). The bags help keep my basement floor poop free! LOL

I also use them for when I'm doing doggy doo-doo cleanup in the yard. They're great dog-do bags.

And for trash in general, usually when I'm cleaning out the garage.

 

[chicmom]

One thing I might try.....I saw where ladies crocheted (back in the depression era) things with plastic bags. They made totes and purses--all kinds of things.

I think you could cut them into one continuous strip, and use them that way....crochet them into a nice tote. I might just try that!

 

[Ridgerunner]

Those plastic bags sure add up fast. I use them to store compost in until I am ready to use it. If you use the plastic lined paper bags for that, they rot. And I use them to put sharp things in that I am putting in the garbage. It keeps the sharp things from poking holes in the garbage bags. But I don't have near enough uses for those plastic bags.

I use the plastic lined paper bags in the garden. They are in three layers, a paper layer, a plastic coated paper layer, and a printed outside paper layer. I separate them into the three layers, and take that plastic lining off the one that has it and throw that plastic away. Then I use the brown ones in between rows in the garden to keep the weeds down, putting mulch on top to keep them in place. By the end of the season, they have rotted and I just turn them under. I use the colored printed ones outside the garden fence, putting something on top to hold them in place, to keep the grass and weeds down. I grow beans on the garden fence and this makes it easier for me to get around the area to pick them without wading through tick and chigger infested grass and weeds. Unless you put something to hold them in place well, the chickens will scratch these to pieces if they can get to them.

I prefer the paper bags but it seems my supplier has switched to plastic bags.

 

[calicokat]

I tuck one between the fridge and cabinet. We break down our cardboard boxes, fold them and tuck them in there. When it's full, I take it off to the recycling center.