Showing posts with label freecycle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label freecycle. Show all posts

Saturday, 24 August 2013

Jiffy bags


I expect several people have had the kind of conversation I had recently:

He: Do we need all these jiffy bags
She: Yes
He: How often do we use one?
She: Well, you never know when you might need one
He: We have 95....
She: ......

There isn't an obvious way to see to jiffy bags being reused, and, although I agree it's useful to hang on to a few for the odd moment of need, we don't need to store all the jiffy bags we get in the post, and they take up a great deal of room. So I started thinking about setting up some sort of jiffy bag recycling point where people who don't need them can dump them, and people who do need them can pick them up. Google reveals that there is no need. The common solution to getting rid of jiffy bags you don't want is to freecycle them. Put them on Freecycle and they get snapped up in five minutes, apparently. I'm about to test that hypothesis.