When does frugal start just getting cheap?

My idea of being frugal is to try to use everything in the best posible way. Sometimes that way means throwing it away. The time I spend doing something, and the results I get, have to be considered too. I do use almost new paper napkins after a party to scrape dishes. But I wouldn´t use them as napkins again. The plastic grocery bags I use to cover the small carbage cans I have at home. Then I pick them up and put them in the big one. This also helps my back.
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My wife reuses bags by taking them to the store for more groceries and puts whatever she doesn't use in the recycle bin. What is irritating is that careless people will thrown in garbage in these bins and the person responsible for taking the bags out will just throw them away. You need to be careful not to use bags that had meat in them. They should just be recycled for garbage or put in the recycle bin. Also, cloth ones need to be washed if you carried meat home in them.

Which plastic bags do you mean? I reuse the ones that frozen vegetables come in (they're freezer bags!) and they work fine. I reuse the grocery bags that I carry groceries in for trash cans, to store and carry many, many things, including yarn, garden produce, books and so on.

The best idea yet for reusing plastic grocery bags is to know how to make a rope from them. They're amazingly sturdy and it's great to know in an emergency.

The worst... probably carrying water.