If you weren’t already using your own shopping totes before, I hope reusable bag month has helped to convert you. Now, how do you go about spreading the reusable bag love?
Try these simple ways to help your friend get the reusable bag habit on:

• Show your bags. Brag on them. Talk about how much better you like them than one-timers.
• Buy bag starter gifts. Get them started with an affordable shopping bag.
• Go shopping! For encouragement, offer to shop with your friends on their first reusable bag outings.
• Get them thinking. Ask, “How many plastic bags …read more

By “score,” I mean make or upcycle or recycle or reclaim or reuse.
However you want to say it or make it, there are lots of materials around for creating your own bags. A really sturdy fabric you might consider is denim. Crafting a Green World gives you directions in DIY: Upcycle Old Denim into Market Tote.
If you’d like your bag to have a wooden handle, Noreen at Hankering for Yarn shows you how in Recycled Wood Bag Handles.
You can always make a morsbag from an old sheet or curtains! Visit morsbags.com for instructions.
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