• Krauerking@lemy.lol
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    2 hours ago

    Some of us just buy dirt to throw on the ground outside our house too.

    We really pay to just move stuff around a lot.

  • HubertManne@piefed.social
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    8 hours ago

    poop bags to. I used to sorta hate using them as I use the grocery bags for it along as little trash bags (although they get tied up and thrown into a bigger trash back when full). The poop bag rolls are just to good to make sure you never are without a bag (you need to have two attached to your leash sho you can refill one after its out while useing the other). Could say cat litter although you could debate you use it for a purpose first but then again you can say that about poop bags and ultimately trash bags. Its purpose being collecting the trash in one location before disposal.

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    Not really. You buy them as a container to keep your trash. So they serve a time limited purpose like pretty much any other product.

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        19 hours ago

        The spring mix I purchase and forget about in the bottom drawer, only to be found again when it’s a bag of black goo is a sacrifice to the fridge god.

      • neidu3@sh.itjust.works
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        1 day ago

        We can still see the outline of your sex toys, so as long as you’re sticking to that gauge and length (impressive, though!) you might want to double or even triple bag.

        Best regards,
        That totally-not-a-surveilence-van across the street.

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    I used to get them for free from the grocery store, and then dumbasses banned them, now for the first time in my life I need to purchase them separately to use once instead of twice.

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    2 days ago

    Not ‘just’ throw away. They provide a very nice convenience of bundling a bunch of trash together and make it all easier to transport to the bin.

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    2 days ago

    That reminds me of a Lily Tomlin joke: “The other day I bought a little wastebasket and brought it home in a paper bag. Then I crumpled up the paper bag and put it in the wastebasket.” A lot of her stand-up act was just making little ironic observations like that.

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    2 days ago

    Food packaging also really irks me. Technically, it has a use beyond being thrown away, but there’s just so much of it. You can readily find products in the shops that should be advertised as “plastic trash” and they just stuck a bit of food inside to keep it in shape…

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    That’s the magic of plastic: Producing more of it is cheaper and easier than producing less.