131 uses for a cotton bag (Part 2)

Continuing our mission to find 131 individual uses for a cotton bag (that’s the number of times a bag needs to be used before it’s carbon footprint is levelled out), let’s talk about storage.

6. Clothes & Linen

Once most of us hit our 30s we tend to have wardrobes overflowing with clothes, some for summer and some for colder months. It’s helpful at the start of every season to go through and decide what you’re not likely to be wearing for some months, and put it away on a top shelf. Cotton bags are useful for keeping outfits, or types of clothes such as woolly socks together, and free of dust. Similarly, when you have several sets of linen in the home, some for the family and some for guests, you want to keep it neatly out of sight until needed, and cotton bags are good for storing it.

7. Herbs

If you’re never happier than when you’re at the stove then it’s more than likely you have a large collection of dried or fresh herbs in the kitchen. Those little pots they come in at the supermarket, handy though they may be, could be more attractive, so why not get hold of some little cotton bags, and stitch a label onto each of them to denote what’s inside? You can do the same for other loose foodstuffs like seeds, flour, sugar or coffee so that things that need to stay out on the counter as they’re used regularly still fit in with your kitchen decor.

8. DIY

Cotton bags are pretty sturdy, so it’s quite possible to hold a bunch of loose screws, nuts and bolts if you have a lot of them sitting around in a drawer. That way whenever you have a loose fitting you only have one place to look.

9. Shoes

Is your shoe collection becoming a bit unruly? Cotton bags, the type you get at promotional events, will easily hold a pair, sometimes even two, so you can keep them together but tucked away. As with clothing, you often find that some types of footwear, flip-flops or Uggs, are only used at certain times of the year, so you may as well have them safely stored instead of lying around.