Bag Lady

I have spoken before about taking your cloth bags to the grocery store when you do your shopping in order to save the paper and keep millions of plastic bags from entering the ground as trash, only to take up to a thousand years to decompose. In another attempt to save the Earth, I have started using reusable dry cleaning bags.

While dry cleaning itself it not very environmentally friendly, I simply have no other choice for items like wool suits and such. I have reduced my trips to the dry cleaners significantly by doing my own shirts at home and buying more articles of clothing that do not require chemical treatment. When I do take a trip to the cleaners, there is now a reusable bag that turns from a duffel to carry the dirty clothes in and into a hanging garment bag to bring the cleaned and pressed items home.

Dry cleaners are happy for you to bring your own reusable bag because it saves them money so some of them offer these reusable cloth bags, right in the store. Websites like thegreengarmento.com offer these versatile, earth-friendly products, sent right to your door. Invest in your own bag if you make trips to the cleaner often and do you part.