Originally Posted by Reba

I've been told that stores can't use bags again for sanitation reasons. I guess they could be processed into new bags.

When I was a kid we all used the brown paper bags to make covers for our school books. We could write the titles on the them, and then decorate them.

We also used the brown paper bags to make costumes. I was bowl of pudding for a Christmas pageant, wearing a brown bag with eye and arm holes cut out, and brown tights. The raisins were drawn on with crayons. They made good "Indian" costumes because we could cut "buckskin fringe" around the bottom with scissors, and decorate them with crayons or glued on construction paper.

We used them for lining kitchen garbage cans.

We could carry stuff in the brown bags without everyone seeing what was inside.

Now that I think about it, we almost never threw away a brown bag. We used them for lots of things.