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When I saw joe's post on bookofjoe: bookofjoe MoneyMaker™ — OneZip Mini it made me want to recount my own plastic bag obsession.

Ever since our Europe trip, I've become a believer in resealable plastic bags. While I know that one-time-use plastic bags are the enemy of the free world, I think these little guys are useful (and plus they are reusable).

For our first trip to Europe, we used plastic bags to pack everything in easily removable groups. For example, in the "pants" bag, I had my spare pair of pants...yes I only had two pair of pants with me plus a pair of shorts for the whole month. I packed the AC adapters, plugs, connectors, etc into another plastic bag. Of course, our toiletries went into their own bag. My underwear and socks plus a couple of t-shirts when into our good old Eagle Creek packing cube that have been on every trip with me for ages and ages. Another plastic bag for splenda, meds, etc. We brought along extra baggies just in case and used them to carry food we bought at supermarkets and left overs from restaurants.

When we got home, we've continued to use the same bags for storage of various items. We have our "croissant bag" which houses the tasty Costco croissants and keeps them from turning into rock hard projectiles. We also use them to keep other foods and then we wash, dry, and reuse them. Aren't they disposable you ask? Why yes, but just because something is disposable doesn't me it can't be reused. We've used the same set of gladware plastic boxes for years now. I know you're supposed to toss them after a few months, but why? They work perfectly fine.

My one word of advice is to avoid Hefty zip bags. They're just not as well made as ziploc or glad baggies. We got them because they were cheap but found that a couple of bags had funky zippers that did not close properly. So much for quality control.

Oh yeah, on of joe's commentors had a link to this sweet selection of baggies in case you need odd sizes.












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