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Title: Little plastic bags
Post by: fsn on 08 March 2015, 11:14:34 AM
Gentlemen of the Forum,

As a keen and constant purchaser of Pendraken products (All hail the Dark Lord!) I have, over the period of years, acquired many yellow envelopes and many, many tiny plastic baggies. The enveloped go straight into the bin, because I can't seem to open them without getting covered in grey powder.

The wee plastic boggies though have accumulated. I started with a wee bag of bags, and then moved to a bigger wee bag of bags. Now I have more bags that will fit into the biggest wee bag.

What then, Gentlemen of the Forum, do we (the bruises on the Pendraken sculptor) do with our excess wee bags? Do they get binned? Do you use them as tiny landfill for  wargames hills? Do you recycle them for the easy transport of slightly less than legal talcum like substances?

There must be a sensible way to dispose of these cheeky little fellows?

TESCO won't take them ... perhaps Techno will? - FSN


Title: Re: Little plastic bags
Post by: Fenton on 08 March 2015, 11:21:59 AM
My other half takes all my  small bags for beads and stores damp clay in  the bigger ziplock bags  as it stays damp  in them overnight

You could just bundle them all up together and give them to a charity shop I am sure someone would buy them
Title: Re: Little plastic bags
Post by: Duke Speedy of Leighton on 08 March 2015, 11:31:27 AM
Sell them to your local drug dealer,they need them...
Support local industry!
Title: Re: Little plastic bags
Post by: Fenton on 08 March 2015, 11:32:05 AM
Quote from: mad lemmey on 08 March 2015, 11:31:27 AM
Sell them to your local drug dealer,they need them...
Support local industry!

For FSN that would mean just selling them back to Pendraken
Title: Re: Little plastic bags
Post by: Ithoriel on 08 March 2015, 01:45:25 PM
Board game components - if you don't need those baggies for power points, wooden sheep, influence tokens, cargo demand counters and the like you are not a real gamer, merely a dilettante  ;D
Title: Re: Little plastic bags
Post by: getagrip on 08 March 2015, 02:10:36 PM
I save all mine for when I sell figures online which I never do.
Title: Re: Little plastic bags
Post by: Techno on 08 March 2015, 02:16:47 PM
Quote from: fsn on 08 March 2015, 11:14:34 AM

TESCO won't take them ... perhaps Techno will? - FSN

You HAVE got a spycam over here haven't you ?
Otherwise that's  a somewhat creepy coincidence.
Will explain later. ;)
I dunno....Sunday, and I'm STILL pushing putty around !  X_X
Cheers - Phil
Title: Re: Little plastic bags
Post by: Roy on 08 March 2015, 03:34:17 PM
I re-use the grip-seal and jiffy bags that stuff gets posted to me in, to stuff things in and post back out. Same with cardboard boxes and those funny foam things that are used for packaging.
Title: Re: Little plastic bags
Post by: Genom on 08 March 2015, 07:18:19 PM
I use them the same way Ithoriel does, we're a gaming family and they're excellent for Board Game components.
Title: Re: Little plastic bags
Post by: petercooman on 08 March 2015, 08:40:06 PM
I just keep them in a little box, and whenever i have a spare part of something i put it in one and write where it came from.

Really helpfull with all those model kits around that can be assembled in 2 or 3 ways.
Title: Re: Little plastic bags
Post by: fsn on 08 March 2015, 09:17:09 PM
All good suggestions, but I still seem to have a surfeit.

Perhaps I will dump donate them to a charity shop.
Title: Re: Little plastic bags
Post by: Hertsblue on 09 March 2015, 10:01:26 AM
Quote from: Ithoriel on 08 March 2015, 01:45:25 PM
Board game components - if you don't need those baggies for power points, wooden sheep, influence tokens, cargo demand counters and the like you are not a real gamer, merely a dilettante  ;D

Yes, indeed. I gave a big stack of mine to a mate who collects boardgames. Otherwise, they do what they set out doing - enclosing made-up units of whatever period I might get around to finishing at a later date; in other words, various elements of my lead mountain. 
Title: Re: Little plastic bags
Post by: Leon on 09 March 2015, 06:22:18 PM
Don't send them to us, we've got enough of the things here!  There must be some kind of 'life hack' that you can use them with.   :-\
Title: Re: Little plastic bags
Post by: getagrip on 09 March 2015, 06:45:30 PM
Quote from: Leon on 09 March 2015, 06:22:18 PM
Don't send them to us, we've got enough of the things here!  There must be some kind of 'life hack' that you can use them with.   :-\

Thread pending... :D
Title: Re: Little plastic bags
Post by: Fenton on 09 March 2015, 06:47:14 PM
What is a life hack?
Title: Re: Little plastic bags
Post by: getagrip on 09 March 2015, 06:50:49 PM
Quote from: Fenton on 09 March 2015, 06:47:14 PM
What is a life hack?

How to make your life easier in a vaguely humorous / meme kind of a way.
Title: Re: Little plastic bags
Post by: Fenton on 09 March 2015, 07:07:28 PM
Quote from: getagrip on 09 March 2015, 06:50:49 PM
How to make your life easier in a vaguely humorous / meme kind of a way.

So I live my life on Facebook and the Pendraken forum?....I might already be doing the latter :-\
Title: Re: Little plastic bags
Post by: fsn on 09 March 2015, 07:45:49 PM
For example: On many cars now, the petrol gauge has an arrow pointing to which side of the car the petrol cap is.

(http://www.aa1car.com/library/fuel_gauge_analog.jpg)
Title: Re: Little plastic bags
Post by: getagrip on 09 March 2015, 07:51:47 PM
Didn't know that.
Title: Re: Little plastic bags
Post by: fred. on 09 March 2015, 08:22:31 PM
I only found that out recently, too.

I had previously wondered what the triangle was by the fuel gauge.
Title: Re: Little plastic bags
Post by: kipt on 09 March 2015, 08:31:00 PM
Not always correct. My 2010 MiniCooper pointed to the opposite side for some reason.
Title: Re: Little plastic bags
Post by: Orcs on 09 March 2015, 08:46:10 PM
If it does not have an arrow, its normally on the side the nozel is showing on the gauge.

.
Title: Re: Little plastic bags
Post by: getagrip on 09 March 2015, 09:03:47 PM
Thing is,  this is only useful about twice or on rental cars  :-\
Title: Re: Little plastic bags
Post by: petercooman on 09 March 2015, 10:27:28 PM
Maybe these are more useful for us beer and pretzel gamers  :d

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CL78eVVW9_M
Title: Re: Little plastic bags
Post by: Leon on 09 March 2015, 10:30:25 PM
Quote from: fsn on 09 March 2015, 07:45:49 PM
For example: On many cars now, the petrol gauge has an arrow pointing to which side of the car the petrol cap is.

I found that out recently as well, I've been amazing people with my new found knowledge wherever possible...!  :D

Quote from: kipt on 09 March 2015, 08:31:00 PM
Not always correct. My 2010 MiniCooper pointed to the opposite side for some reason.

It's because you're driving on the wrong side as well...  :P

(Although of course Mini's are built by BMW in Germany, who also drive on the wrong side of the road...  :-\ )
Title: Re: Little plastic bags
Post by: Hertsblue on 09 March 2015, 11:03:39 PM
Quote from: Leon on 09 March 2015, 10:30:25 PM
I found that out recently as well, I've been amazing people with my new found knowledge wherever possible...!  :D

It's because you're driving on the wrong side as well...  :P

(Although of course Mini's are built by BMW in Germany, who also drive on the wrong side of the road...  :-\ )

Actually, they're still built in Oxford.
Title: Re: Little plastic bags
Post by: Leon on 10 March 2015, 03:48:27 AM
Quote from: Hertsblue on 09 March 2015, 11:03:39 PM
Actually, they're still built in Oxford.

Aha, I hadn't realised that, so my point stands!

:D