Uses for Paper Bags
Dear Aunt Daisy, It is not often that I have time to sit down to listen to your session, but when I can I do enjoy it. Some time ago I heard you asking for suggestions for using up paper bags. I may say I find them very handy for keeping the chopping block tidy. The (Continued on next page)
(Continued from previous page) kiddies just love filling them up with chips; then if you have plenty of these all filled, dry and handy, you can boil a kettle in a jiffy. Others in the open fireplace only need a match to the bag, and your fire is alight without any mess. Also, if filled with slack coal they are so handy to pop on at the back of the fire without getting your hands grubby. Then for keeping paper sewing-pat-terns together and tidy, they are splendid. Your own patterns can’ be put in one paper bag, patterns to fit one child in another — and with each person’s name on the bag, it savés a lot of hunting when going to sew. I also use them for putting gladiola, tulip and narcissi bulbs in when I lift them. They are also handy where there are lunches to be cut each day; each person’s name written on a bag, for they may take different things in their lunches, Then the lunch is just wrapped in its greaseproof paper, and popped in each bag; it saves a lot of wrapping-‘"A Busy Country Mother," (Central Otago).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 56, 19 July 1940, Page 44
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257Uses for Paper Bags New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 56, 19 July 1940, Page 44
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