My family.  They are a bad influence on me.  Okay, perhaps that’s stretching the truth just a bit.  For as far back as I can remember, I have collected and saved bags.  It started out just being grocery bags and I am now the go-to person in our family for bags for almost any type of occasion.  I still collect paper grocery bags – they sure come in handy in my sewing room, to ship a package, etc.  I have one of those holders for the plastic shopping bags you get at the grocery store and we use them mostly to put filling in boxes we may need to mail.  Then, when I started going to Quilt Market, I had to collect the bags they gave out there, too! Those make great gifts for our kids or quilting pals.  And then have been the recipient of lovely and special homemade tote bags, too.  Plus, I now have a growing collection of fabric grocery bags…though we forget to take them in the store with us more than not.

I also have quite a collection of gift bags:

And less we forget…the tissue paper, easily ironed to get the wrinkles out of, to go in the aforementioned gift bags – and the lone ribbon that we pass around from one kid to the next as it is special to our family:

Got bags?!