Some of the uses for grocery store plastic bags bring an automatic smile to my face. This was the case when I saw a picture of a woman tending to her garden on her knees. The delight came once I recognised that she had flattened grocery bags and tied them over her knees to protect her pant legs from getting dirty.
Another that I recently saw was a replacement for a lost small umbrella cover. Who has not misplaced the cover that came with one of their umbrellas? Once you have, you will be repeatedly annoyed by the additional bulk the umbrella creates without the confinement. Not to mention the plastic bag will protect anything a wet, or damp umbrella comes in contact with.
This last one, I have been doing myself for quite sometime, but forgot to previously share. I use those flimsy vegetable and fruit bags that you place your selections in at the market when I peel and cut my produce. Those bags are normally so weak that they are good for little else. And there is something agreeable about putting remnants of the produce back into the container they came home with you in.