I’ve washed and reused ziplocks for a long time, and within the last few years bought reusable ziplock bags, and both insulated and non-insulated grocery bags. I’ve got quite a few jars of various sizes squirreled away to reuse for homemade sauces and the like, like old glass ketchup bottles.

When we go camping we fill cleaned milk jugs and fill with water that we freeze ahead of time, large blocks last longer in the cooler and when they melt, provide us with drinking water, and the jugs keep everything in the cooler from “swimming” in melted ice-water.

I’ve got bags of old socks and underwear in my workshop for cleaning up various things or applying stains to projects I build.

I have a garden and compost food scraps and yard clippings, and I put by what we don’t eat.

We return bottles and cans, though we got more for them when we lived in Michigan than we do here in California. It’s a good incentive for the kids, they do chores and they recycle the bottles/cans for cash.

I grew up poor on a farm in the Midwest, where we used a lot of repurposed butter bowls for soups and cereals, my dad would even wash paper plates! I’m not w,harassed by any of this, I think there’s an awful lot of needless waste in our society and I try to do my part to offset what I can, and not participate in it.