Reusing your T-shirts as reusable shopping bags

As this blog is called Cheap and Cheerful, I'm not sure if any of you readers out there in internet-land shop at markets like Whole Foods and Kroger, but for those who do, these and some other grocery stores offer a discount when you remember to bring your reusable shopping bags. Since the discount offered at most stores is only for a few cents off per-bag-filled-per-order, this practice will probably not save you any big bucks. Still, remembering to bring your own bags will help cut down on the rustling plastic-bag tumble weeds that crowd your cabinets and block your way to the Windex.

Here is a tutorial care of lifehacker.com, courtesy of vividmichelle on YouTube, that demonstrates how to quickly and easily recycle an old T-shirt into a reusable shopping bag.

It's free, it's recycling, you don't need a sewing machine, and even a bag made from your ugly "team building exercise '94" T-shirt looks better than a plastic one. AMIRITE?

Here's mine:




Behold! An old, outrageously over-sized wildlife T-shirt from middle school is now a slightly more attractive alternative for toting groceries, library books, and the many Tupperware containers that make up bag lunch during the working week.