[Healeys] luggage option

[Mark and Kathy]

Ya ever wonder where those bags have been before they get to your house?

 Lets see????    Maybe on the car floor of the paperboy/girl where her/his 
dogs butt was sitting hours earlier.  Or maybe a dirty diaper or the cats 
vomit from being car sick when it was taken to the vet,  was on the floor 
before those wonderful free bags were.    I really don't think the delivery 
person cares or is thinking about keeping those bags nice and clean for you 
so you can put your clean clothes in them.   Do you know what is in 
newspaper ink?  Not to mention what it would do to a pair of nice white 
shorts.  Or maybe the delivery persons'  choice of vehicle is a pickumup 
trunk. I don't even want to think about what I've seen in the back of some 
of those.

I think I'll just continue using those bags to pick up the dog crap and buy 
nice new  Zip Lock storage bags for my clean clothes and accessories.

If you still want some extra, free, newspaper bags, my dog will loan you 
some of his.

Mark


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gary R. Brierton" <gbrierton at hotmail.com>
To: <healeys at autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, January 21, 2008 8:08 AM
Subject: Re: [Healeys] luggage option


> Here's a trick I've used on most of my long-distance Healey trips (>500
> miles).
> Save the plastic "sleeves" that most home delivered newspapers come in. 
> Roll
> one day's clothes into each one and pack them whereever they fit in the 
> car.
> I've done up  to 15 days this way.  Grab one each night along with my 
> "shaving
> kit" and I'm all set.  Roll the dirty days duds in the same wrapper and 
> yer
> good to go.
> Gary Brierton
> '67 BJ8 aka The Silver Bullet aka "RSATLAST"