I have so many plastic shopping bags at my house that we even bought a dispenser to hold them. Recently, I found out a new way to put them to good use until I get my reusable cloth shopping bag situation under control.

You can easily link shopping bag material to make a kind of yarn. This yarn can be used to make just about anything, from a reusable parka to... you guessed it... a shopping bag.

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