The Uses Of Shopping Bags

Okay, so no doubt there are some crazy uses for shopping bags. But if you have invested in quality cotton or jute shopping bags from shoppingbagsdirect, most likely with customised printed branding and message, you will want to know where your bag will end up. Of course, the very fact that cotton bags or jute shopping bags are reusable is a plus, both for your business and for the environment. But it is the way that customers may end up using environmentally-friendly cotton or jute bags that also makes them attractive. So, considering all the uses of shopping bags is worth a thought.

Now, it is true that a lot of uses of cotton bags or jute shopping bags also apply to plastic ‘Bag For Life’ shopping bags. However, cotton and jute are made from natural products, they are naturally breathable, and because of their natural texture they lend themselves to a different range of uses.

Being breathable with natural fibres means that cotton and jute bags can be used to store books, dry food products, leather goods, and paper files with much less chance of sweating or mould. That’s a real plus over the plastic carrier bag. (Of course, being breathable doesn’t mean that young children should be allowed to play with cotton or jute bags without supervision, and extra care must be taken with children using plastic bags of all sorts.)

So, what are the really useful uses of cotton or jute shopping bags?

Shopping Bags For Shopping

Yes, obvious isn’t it? Your business has provided a high quality cotton shopping bag from shoppingbagsdirect and you want it to be used to carry your product back to the customer’s home in perfect condition. Job done! Of course, you also want your cotton shopping bag to carry your name and message out into the world. So you may well have had it custom printed by shoppingbagsdirect. Nevertheless, the main job of the cotton shopping bag is, believe it or not, to carry shopping! So it needs to be strong, light and well made. But that’s why you came to shoppingbagsdirect in the first place.

Shopping Bags For Shopping Again … And Again

Cotton bags and jute shopping bags are ideally suited to being reused. A stylish cotton shopping bag from shoppingbagsdirect should see many more shopping trips. It may be back to your business – the ideal repeat customer who brings back their customised printed cotton bag to take away another of your products. Or it may be shopping elsewhere. This is no bad thing. If you have had your cotton shopping bag printed with your own brand name by shoppingbagsdirect your customer will be carrying your message far and wide.

Shopping Bags For Carrying

Well, it goes without saying that shopping bags are designed to carry things. A cotton or jute shopping bag from shoppingbagsdirect will be strong enough to carry a wide range of shopping, with well-sewn handles, quality material and the strength of natural fibres. Yet a cotton or jute shopping bag may well find itself, between shopping trips, being used for a wide variety of other carrying jobs. There are clothes to take to the charity shop. There are books to take to college or to the library. There are files and folders to lug around the university campus. There are bottles and cans to take to recycling. There is booze to take to the party. There is a picnic to carry. There are towels and swim-suits, buckets and spades to take to the beach. There are toys to carry for the children. There are nick-knacks for the tombola stall. There is that aspidistra your granny gave you. There is the floral cake-tin for the W.I. There is packing the car for a holiday. There is … There are … so many things.


Shopping Bags For Storage

At shoppingbagsdirect we know that you want your customised printed cotton shopping bag or jute bag to be used again and again. But we have to be realistic. Your customer may at some point use it for storage. Your customer will still be pleased with your choice of environmentally-friendly shopping bag fromshoppingbagsdirect, but it will be a less public pleasure for a while.

Cotton bags and jute bags, being made from natural fibre, are ideal for many storage problems. They are strong and breathable, making sweating and mould less of a problem. So jute shopping bags may well be used for storing potatoes or carrots. Apples may be collected in cotton or jute shopping bags. Apples can even be stored for a short while in cotton or jute bags. Other dry foodstuffs may find their way into a jute shopping bag.

Then there are books, newspapers, files and folders. All may be stashed away in a natural-fibre cotton or jute shopping bag. Paintings, pictures, photo-albums, ornaments – all may be stored in your tough shopping bag.

Shoes, clothes, hats and towels could all find themselves wrapped in your cotton shopping bag. Linen, sheets, small blankets and pillow-cases, may also be tucked away in a strong cotton shopping bag from shoppingbagsdirect. Picnic blankets, paddling gear, sandals, and sun hats may all be put away for the winter. There is no shopping bag more versatile than a cotton shopping bag.

Shopping Bags For Ever

Well, no, not quite. Everything has its day. Even a tough jute shopping bag fromshoppingbagsdirect reaches the end of the road. After maybe hundreds of uses, your eco-friendly cotton bag or jute shopping bag may finally have come to grief. But all is not lost. Even old cotton and jute bags still have their uses.

A cotton bag can be repaired, though not all your customers will have the time or patience to patch even the most cherished cotton shopping bag. However, like cotton shirts and underwear, a cotton bag, cut into strips makes excellent dusters and rags for all those jobs about the house, in the shed or the garage.

Jute bags, too, can be opened out to make sacking. Who knows, your customer’s faithful old Labrador may be asleep in her basket on her specially plumped doggy-duvet underneath which is the sacking from one of your old jute shopping bags.