Thursday Thirteen #36 I’m A Bag Lady
by Shelly Kneupper Tucker on February 7, 2008
Do y’all ever get side-tracked when you go on the internet? I sure do. I just wanted to look up “bags” on the internet, and got all carried away (I’ll tell you why I was looking in a minute). It’s a good thing I can never find my purse, or I’d whup out that credit card and be spending some serious money! Here’s a little bit of what I found.
I first was looking for Medicine bags, because I’ve had a fascination with them since reading about them in a book as a child. I have my own, made of velvet and beads. I keep some special trinkets in it: a silver “storyteller doll,” a tiny petrified clam (so I won’t “clam up” in front of an audience), a paper crane a little girl gave me, a shark’s tooth, an ivory elephant, and a religious medallion. All of them hold special meanings to me.
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Soft Leather Studio has handcrafted
leather medicine pouches, in case you are interested in one to hold your own “lucky charms.”
With Valentine’s Day on its way, some of you ladies might be expecting jewelry as a gift. You can find lovely cloth jewelry bags to hold your loot at Bags and Bows
But, if you are planning to get jewelry, you’d better tell that significant other about it! If you are a blogger, enter the Valentine Wishes contest at SusieJ.com
She’s got prizes!
Do any of y’all remember the Unknown Comic? What a great way to release your inhibitions. Put a paper bag over your head, and you too could make money. No one would ever know it was you; just learn a few stupid jokes, and you can be the life of the party.
Speaking of parties, for your next movie party, order your own Popcorn Bags at Bagmakers, Inc. Surely you could come up with something a little more exciting than these.
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After you have eaten all the popcorn, you might need Barf Bags from Oriental Trading. Who in the world comes up with these ridiculous ideas?
If your yard is buried in leaves, you can get yourself some Biodegradable Leaf Bags at This Next. Better yet, just let the wind blow the leaves into your neighbor’s yard.
But, be sure to get rid of the leaves before you stick candles in a bags and make luminarias to line your walkways.
Funroom will show you how to makePaper Bag Puppets, just in case you need one. I’m thinking that you probably don’t need one, and if you do then you probably don’t need instructions, but I stole their picture so I thought it would be polite to link to them.
When you have five cats around the house, you have to think about cat litter bags, Unless you have a Cat Genie, which promises that you will never touch litter again,. This contraption costs $369 at Petco. It might be wonderful, but I can buy a lot of cat litter bags for that price.
Want to go green with grocery bags? Re-usable grocery bags are all the rage around here. You can buy bags for $1.99 each plus shipping at Bags On The Run. You have to order a minimum of 10, but if you shop like I do you could fill 10 bags each trip to the store in a heartbeat.
Some women like to buy shoes, but purses are my downfall, especially vintage purses. Yep, I’m definitely a bag lady. You can find a truckload of lovely ones at Vintage in Style. Oh, I’d seriously buy this one. But, I’d still never be able to find it when I want my credit card.
Why was I looking up bags? Well, there have been some of us working on making 140 afghans for children with cancer who will be attending a summer camp this year. Each afghan that we are making has squares from 48 different people. Each person added a tag to their squares to tell their name and where they live.
One afghan was given to “Mr. T.” who is battling leukemia. He was fascinated by the tags. He shuffled them like cards. Wouldn’t it be a shame for a child to lose those tags? We decided to make special bags for them. Sherry at Yellow Rose’s Garden, and Barbara at The Purplemoose Gazette are spearheading the drive to get 140 bags for these children. Please check out their posts. If you are the least bit “crafty,” you might be interested in making a bag.
If you aren’t, you can help us spread the word. PLEASE!
Sherry has some images you can use for your sidebar that are pretty. If you want to use the paper bag, I’ll tell you the code to add the images on the Share A Square blog.
I hope your day is good!
[EDITOR'S NOTE: The Share A Square project has ended, and the afghans were delivered on July 7th, 2008. Although we will not continue that project, an exciting NEW endeavor, called the Good Medicine Project is in progress for summer camp 2009. We hope you will join us.]
Related posts:
- A Medicine Bag?
- Thursday Thirteen #13—I’m Not Superstitious
- The Delivery of Medicine Bags at Camp Sanguinity
- Good Medicine Project Update
- Charmed, I’m Sure
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What a fun idea for a 13! I’ll have to try to find those biodegradable leaf bags, that’s awesome!
I played this week, too!
The leaf bags probably would never hold the massive amounts of leaves in my yard!
Cool list. Love the bags!!!
Thanks Michelle. I appreciate the visit and the kind words
Fabulous list! Forget the vintage bags, this is vintage Shelley. Good stuff my friend.
Thank you, dear. You know I love to write these idiotic long lists.
Yes, but you are an adorable bag lady. Yes I remember the unknown comic. I’ll pass on the barf bags. Ewwwwwwwww. The cat genie looks very interesting, but you are right, you can buy a lot of bags with that money. Very nicely done Shelly. Have a great TT.
I don’t want to see a barf bag…well, I don’t want to have to use one. The cat genie probably wouldn’t even work…and where the heck would you put it. The ads show it beside the bath tub. Yeah, right. Like I want them doing their business ANYWHERE near where I am!
Hi Shelly, thanks for the post! Have already gotten some great response!!
Here is a link to the SAS Bag Project page on my blog, I tried to do a trackback, but for some reason I couldn’t.
SAS Bag Project Page
Hmm. I don’t even know HOW to do a trackback! You are a step ahead of me.
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Happy year of the Rat. Those were great bag ideas. If you have a Safeway near you, they are selling grocery bags for $1.00 each.
Actually, I got insulated bags at Kroger for about $3, and that’s what I use. Or, I would use them if I could remember them!
Fascinating story. Just one simple word, and all of this! I get so sidetracked on the web… so easily!
Oh, and by the way, I have actually used a barf bag for its intended purpose… and I’ll tell you something: It works GREAT. I have never, at that moment, been so grateful to the person who came up with this ingenious engineering to make such a bag work so well, and that it was available at the precise moment I needed it.
Yes, you know I want the code for the bag.
Unfortunately, when I have needed a barf bag, there hasn’t been one available
Yep, getting sidetracked is easy. But, YOU always come up with really cool stuff when you get sidetracked! And, you do it all the time!
Super fun TT list! Those barf bags are oddly compelling.
Aren’t they? I don’t think I could bring myself to throw up in them.
Oh wow, what a fabulous idea for a T13. Love it. I definitely need a medicine bag (and some lucky charms).
I’d forgotten the unknown comic. I have sometimes thought I’d like to do any public speaking that comes my way in a mask. I never thought of a bag.
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That’s more information about bags all in one place than I’ve ever seen in my life
This old bag could tell you lots more. I had to stop myself! That happens
great post. that pic of that comedian with the bag on his head brought back memories of my child hood.
I don’t remember what show I saw him on, but I remember thinking he was funny. Dumb, but funny.
Well, I think you are by far the sharpest bag lady I’v ever had the pleasure to know!!
I love the bags for the tags! How cool! I’m going to see what I can come up with!
Jessica
Surely you can make a bag! I’m betting your daughters could help you come up with something cool. I’d love to make a leather one that looks “Native American.” I’m betting there are some kids at camp who would eat that up.
I remember the Unknown Comic, Murray Langston. I saw him once with a ventriloquist’s dummy, whhc also had a bag over its head.
We have been using re-usable grocery bags for a few months now. It made such a difference; we no longer have plastic bags all over the house, on their way to the landfill.
Actually, I bought a bunch of re-usable grocery bags, and never remember to take them with me
But, we use the plastic bags for cat litter. Right now, I also use them to hold crocheted afghan squares (not the same bags, of course! I think I saw Murray Langston on television. I bet he was a hoot in a live show.
I actually reuse the plastic bags for cleaning out our litter boxes, can’t imagine using an automated litter box with these guys.
Barf bag- Yep used the real thing, actually more than one on that awful ferry ride, though they weren’t as colorful as the ones you showed here.
Got some link love going over at my site for the bag project.
You are a sweetheart with the link love! I’m looking forward to seeing what people do with the bags. As for barf bags, I don’t think I’ve ever had one handy when the need arose. These are disgustingly cute bags! In a weird way. I can’t imagine using an automated litter box, either
Wouldn’t be great if they were smart enough to flush their own toilet? You could have one toilet in the house dedicated to cats.