I hope you continue to get the support you need, askye. I think you are a great pet owner--and this sort of guilt is realistically disproportionate without being self-centred. Which is to say,

In a shift of topic, I called home again this morning, and got passed around like a hot potato until I got to my sister. Who had a long conversation with a lot of long words about her opinions on the Occupy movement. It was good to hear her excited, and very different from yesterday. I wish I felt like she was getting this engaged with her friends around her.

My father wouldn't let me engage him at all. I hope he's okay.

Hey, anyone used/heard of these? I'm thinking of using them as a stocking stuffer for my sisterl But they need to be precisely the write thing. And economical.

Washable is important. I hope they mean machine washable and don't expect one to hand wash.

My most green friend basically doesn't use produce bags at all, but they look good for someone who wants to use bags but feels bad about it.

Also can they be dried in a dryer? Even someone who line dries most of the time (not saying that is your sister) will get into a hurry on occasion and want to use a dryer.

Also, the 7X7 bag will useless most of the time - so in practice you are paying 6 bucks for 4 bags not 5.

Jess: If your friend is putting produce directly in normal reusable bags, which don't get washed very often, the bags are gradually accumulating nasty micro-organisms and transferring them to unprotected food put in the bags. Either food in reusable bags should be protected either by disposable or frequently washed bags, or the resusable bags should themselves be washed frequently.

How dirty are these things getting? I would imagine just rinsing them in the kitchen sink.

Edit: Ah ha! Cross-responded. And my friend just free-balls her produce.

Kitchen sink would work but then they have dry in time for the next use. And still needs to be done after every use or close to it I saw a study recently because they are used for raw food, reusable bags accumulate bacteria and fungi and so on long before there is visible dirty or odor. They are unsanitary long before they are dirty.

:::::::::::grabs all reusable bags and loads into washing machine!!:::::::::::

My sister free bags it, but it's incredibly unwieldy, and limits the amount of product she can do so with. I mean, mushrooms? That's gross. Grapes? Also nasty. Plus, in Jamaica, they weigh the produce and price it before the checkout, so if you don't pay full attention, they end up trying to sneak everything into a bag with a price on the bag, instead of rolling around in her bag with the price label on just one of the item.

As for washing, it's Jamaica. Hand washing and line drying are still as viable options as machine and machine.

I feel I should wash my bags tool

Then I think those look great.