When I was a youngin and didn't know any better or understand the logic of many of the ladies in my life I constantly asked this question in my mind. Why do they wash baggies? Now I didn't have baggies in my lunches or anything like that when I was growing up, but I did know that baggies were disposable. Meaning you throw them out after they are used right? Well when I would visit people and see that they washed their baggies I was so confused, let alone my one aunt who always re-used the milk bag for baked goods. I just didn't understand why they would do that. Thank you Mom for your crazy Tupperware fetish where it took me a long time to understand why disposables were never in our lunch bags. Not to mention the good food we usually had. MMMMmmmm oh childhood memories.
Now that I've been on my own so to speak for so long I get it. Baggies are expensive and milk bags have a great quality to them. I am now that person that washes baggies. I don't re-use the ones that had raw meat in them, but I re-use almost every other plastic bag I get. Whether it is for carrying an extra pair of shoes with me to work/church or on trips or for garbage. I use those milk bags for baked good or to freeze peeled bananas in. I see the value in what many of my elders did when I was younger and I find it funny how much I have changed and grown to be more and more like those older people in my life.
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