For in little wastebaskets, I buy the white plastic bags made for small containers. For the garbage/trash container, I buy the large draw-string bags. We get plastic bags in which the store bags our groceries. They are usually tan in color and we use them to put the used kitty litter in, then tie it shut.

We get tons of bags from the stores with every purchase. I line the small trash cans with those and use them to scoop kitty litter.

I use my cloth bags for every store purchase. Small white bag trash bags in the small cans like bathrooms, bedrooms, utility room, etc. 13 gallon Glad Flex bags in kitchen and office.

three small trashcans in the bathroom, and Charlottes and my room are lined with walmart type bags, I get from friends that don't use cloth. My trash can in the kitchen also uses walmart type bags, as I prefer to empty often to getting a big bin and it might stink... The recycle bucket doesn't need a bag, neither does the paper basket... :)

Moni... who doesn't buy bags to toss in the garbage

I buy the tall kitchen bags for one in the kitchen,rest of waste baskets in the house I use the plastic ones from the stores I get when I shop out of town. When shopping in town I use cloth or the reusable ones as I won’t pay five cents for a paper bag.

Bathroom trash cans have lift-out plastic inserts, so I don't use a liner as they can be washed and disinfected easily. In the kitchen, I use compostable plastic bags for the trash can and a washable fabric bag for the recycle bin.

We have the ridiculous plastic bag ban where we live. However they try to sell you a special plastic bag at the register. Depending on what city you happen to be in they are 10 - 25 cents each. They aren't flexible and are pretty much useless for anything afterwards although they tout them as reusable. SMH

So I buy the old style lightweight grocery bags called t bags on Amazon. It costs me less than 2.5 cents a bag and I actually have real uses for them after I have taken them to the store in my pocket to do my shopping. They line both my bathroom waste baskets and the under the sink frame designed to fit them in the kitchen.

I just started buying the cheap kitchen draw string type at Walmart that are called "Top Job" Basics and find they are just as strong as the more expensive brand name. I don't bother lining the other small bins in the house, there is nothing going in them that's gross enough to worry about. I just take the can to the kitchen can on trash day and dump it in the kitchen can. At the grocery store, I try to use the reusable large bags that I've bought for groceries. Some grocery stores are not really set up very well for using your own bags though, unfortunately, it makes it a bit of an ordeal to bag it yourself. At those stores, I just use their bags which gives me some bags at home for dog poo...HAHA!

Just inexpensive tie-top 13-gallon bags for the kitchen (only about 1 per week.) No hefty hefty drawstrings needed. Nothing in other rooms. Most of those are plastic and rinse or Lysol easily. Recycling goes in a bin in the garage, so just the hose when it gets gunky.

My bathroom garbage container has a grocery store bag for a liner. The compost container has compostable bags in it. The garbage container has a garbage bag in it (from Costco: white with an orange drawstring) and my recycling is a bag that we just empty into the recycling bin.

Tall kitchen drawstring bags in the kitchen and the main living area. The living area can usually goes two weeks before it's full (and nothing gross in it). Misc small cans around the house get lined with plastic shopping bags, still free and generously handed out around here. I also use those bags for "poop patrol" in the backyard so I like having an adequate supply.

No liners at all. I don’t like to use so much plastic. If I have food waste like chicken bones, etc., it goes in a recycked bread bag and keep in freezer until trash day. Often have to rinse out kitchen trash can before returning to use. The other cans have mostly paper trash and only need occasional washing.

In my opinion, the bag ban is not “ridiculous.”

Tall drawstring bags for the kitchen (non scented!).for all the small cans in the bathrooms and utility room, small plastic liners. I use reusable grocery bags but occasionally have the plastic grocery bags and keep them mostly for the extra produce I give away in summer. Or the odd assortment of trash I run around the house and pick up and then run out to the bin before the trash collection truck arrives.

Like some others here, I use plastic grocery bags obtained from friends and neighbors to line my bathroom waste baskets, as well as my litter scooping buckets. (I use cloth, reusable bags for my groceries and everything else I buy.) I also save incidental food bags for things like meat scraps, and I put those in the freezer to dispose of on trash pickup day.

It amazes me how many stores want to give me a small bag when I buy one of something, like a spool of thread. I can easily put that in my pocket or purse.

A craft outlet I shop at occasionally announces on Facebook that they are accepting clean, plastic grocery bags. If you take them a bundle, they give you a 50% discount on an item, and they use those bags for buyer purchases, which I think is a smart idea!

No wastebaskets around my house. Just the big trash can I'm the kitchen,which gets a regular trash bag. Growing up there was a wastebasket in every room and it was my job to empty them everyday. It was my least favorite chore EVER. I remember thinking, "Why didn't they just walk their lazy butt to the kitchen and throw this away in there. How hard is that?" For my part i never used the wastebaskets, I always threw whatever it was away in the big kitchen trash. I HATE WASTEBASKETS!!!!! GRRRRRR!!!!

Sorry,brat tantrum over now.

Some stores still give out plastic grocery bags, but other than that I refuse to pay 6 cents for a bag. They charge .5 plus Tax! and it's 6 cents.

When I'm running low I'll throw out a request on Freecycle for bags, and I always get people willing to give me a bunch.

We use those for the kitchen trash that's not recyclable/green binnable such as styrofoam meat trays, plastic wrap etc. That gets put in the large plastic containers outside. I also use plastic bread bags, empty potato chip bags for kitty litter. We have a little rectangular garbage container under the sink that 'pirate-hat shaped' newspaper pouches fit perfectly into for the food and green bin waste.

The bathroom garbage container is wicker, so it gets lined with a plastic bag as well, all neatly tucked in around the edge, as Roxie is a plastic bag chewer!

We always seem to have plastic bags hanging around so we use those, For our kitchen garbage can I am now buying smaller bags and buy them from Costco. IT's just the two of us now and we were wasting a lot of plastic with the larger bags that weren't getting filled but would begin to smell.

I also live where there is a "plastic bag ban", which is really just a no-free-bags at the grocery store or pharmacy law (other retailers are free to use what they want). Now the bags are heavier and generally cost 10c each. I use cloth bags at the grocery store and buy bags for the trashcans. At one of our local stores that sells a lot of bulk/warehouse type items, they sell thin 4 gallon bags in a big box for roughly 1.5c each. In our kitchen, we use a rig that hangs in the cabinet and used grocery bags, but now we end up using 2 of the thin bags and binder clips. There are heavier kitchen bags available in that size, but they are hard to find and cost 10c each. We also buy 8 gallon for some of the larger disposal needs in the house- same place, same cheap plastic. I think I use more plastic bags now that we have a "ban."

We still use the vile, disgusting, should-be-banned little plastic Walmart bags for the small trash cans. For the larger trash bins we use the recently discovered, far superior and actually surprisingly little more expensive Kirkland bags.

Large 39 gal. leaf bags for big cans outside. 13 gal. tall kitchen bags for the can under the sink. I use grocery store, Walmart type bags in the bedrooms and bathroom. I also put several bags, bunched up, on the bottom of the cans so when I take out the full bag I have a replacement on hand.

Waste baskets for office and laundry don't get lined. Nothing wet goes into them, just paper type products and dryer lint, loose threads ;0)

My bathroom and kitchen garbage containers are lined with bags I buy in bulk at Costco. All are small and the kitchen is emptied every day. I don't keep a recycle container indoors. Our city recycle container is not that many steps from the back door. One or the other of us walks out there at least once a day with cans (which are washed and labels removed), a paper towel cardboard tube, rinsed milk carton, empty box etc.

Our city recycle wheeled can looks to be slightly bigger than the city garbage wheeled containers which are 65 gal. To wash out either, I just about have to lay them on their sides and crawl inside ;0) DH buys drum liners at Home Depot for the city garbage can. They are 55 gal largest size but work fine, we've never filled a 65 gal garbage can. Everything that goes into the can is bagged, and the can is lined. DH does wash it out once a month or so all the same, turns it upside down to drain and dry. He does his sisters at their houses too, something about a dirty garbage can that annoys him.

I can remember my mother lining garbage cans with newspapers. Both the kitchen, and outside pickup can. It wasn't very effective, those garbage cans didn't always smell nice ;0)

Small waste baskets in bedrooms don't get lined, no reason for them to. I use the Walmart bags for the bathroom liners. And buy the 13 gallon liners for the kitchen. Any wet or potentially smelly waste in the kitchen goes into a Walmart type bag, is securely tied closed and taken directly to the big garbage can outside. Our garbage pick up is twice a week, and I have never noticed our can getting smelly, so apparently the tightly tied store bag does the job. Recycling here is voluntary, no city supplied container for it. So I bought a blue garbage can, which sits right outside my back door, and recyclables go into it. I bought a roll of the large bags made for this size container several years ago, and have hardly made a dent in them. When one is full, I take it to the recycling center, dump it into the big bin there, and bring my bag back and reuse it. One bag will last for many months! Aluminum goes into an unlined can in the garage, which gets sold to the metal recycling place. It takes me forever to fill that can, I don't buy sodas or any other any drinks that come in aluminum cans.

Rusty

I actually save my dry cleaning bags. I knot the bottom, cut off the excess and fit it into my wastebasket. Since all of the trash that goes in is dry, never food, I dump out the trash and leave the bag in. Every so often I change it out.

The plastic bags from grocery stores or Dollar Tree are still free here. We use those even in the big kitchen trash can. Dh cleans the kitty litter daily, then takes the trash to work with him to dispose of.

Glad kitchen garbage bags for the kitchen and grocery shopping bags for the smaller ones in bathrooms and bedrooms.

I don't line bedroom or bathroom wastebaskets that seldom receive anything more than dry waste (Kleenex, etc.). Mine are not 'baskets', but hard surface containers that can be rinsed as necessary.

Maui banned plastic bags years ago. Oahu just did. (Many stores will still give you paper, but not all.) Next year the State of Hawaii is banning plastic straws for paper ones and non-degradable carry-out containers (like plastic foam) for biodegradable containers.

Save the Oceans! Save the Earth!

For the bathrooms I use grocery bags, in the kitchen I use whatever's cheapest with a drawstring top. I think last I bought was Wal-Mart brand. My "couch can" doesn't get a bag. My recycling (voluntary) goes in another can (no bag) that I sort when I go to the dump.

I ordered a box of 300 plastic bags that say "Thank You" from a Restaurant Supply outfit on Amazon. I think I indicated where I live there is a plastic bag ban. I use these bags for cat litter and also for lunches (I bring my lunch on days I teach). I use cloth bags for the grocery stores, but a couple times I forgot, and I had to pay the 10 cents.

Several years ago I bought a wastebasket frame that attached to the inside of my kitchen sink cabinet that used the plastic grocery bags with handles that we brought home with our groceries. I loved it. But of course, now you can't get them at grocery stores in our area anymore. Can't even pay for them. You either buy a paper bag or a durable bag, or bring your own. I can buy bags made for that frame, but they are a bit expensive, so I took it down.

I now use a 2 gallon round wastebasket under the sink and in both bathrooms. If I stretch them a bit, I can use the plastic bags we put produce in at the store. I also have purchased bags that I use when I'm out of produce bags. When I have to use the purchased bags, I am reminded that we don't eat enough roughage, LOL.

The only other thing I use trash bags for is the Litter Robot. I have purchased special bags for it, but they're about 50 cents each! I now use cheap 13-gallon bags for the Robot. We have 6 cats and that's a lot of doo-dee. We would be spending a good portion of the day scooping were it not for the Robot. It was expensive, but well worth the cost in my opinion. Another opinion: Bruno is our most intelligent cat. I've trained him to jump through a hoop and I've thought it might be worth training him to use the toilet. Then he could teach the others, LOL.

The only waste baskets I line are my kitchen trash can, and two similar sized ones next to the computer in the basement. I line those as this is where I do my nebulizer treatments, and those little plastic vials and their twist off tops, can end up on the floor, and are a chewing hazard for my dog.

Donna Loomis - that is the frame I have. I buy the t-bags for it on Amazon for less than 2.5 cents a bag depending on the vendor. I use them for groceries and then I reuse them for all the other uses including lining that bag rack.

Watchme, never thought of that. Thanks!

Plastic grocery bags for the bathroom waste bins. Tall kitchen bags for the kitchen trash, but I don't change them often--I'm picky about what goes in my kitchen trash! Large 33-gallon trash bags for the covered metal can just outside the back door. We empty everything into that can, then the bag is put in the rolling plastic trash can to take to the curb on trash day.