Party in a Custom Bag

As you head out to celebrate Halloween this weekend -- whether at a wicked rager or a spooky night of horror films -- pack your party in custom bags. Don’t arrive empty-handed at a large get-together; use one of your custom bags to tote a six-pack of pumpkin beer as an offering so you don’t get tricked. If you’re heading for a quieter event, use some custom bags to stock up on popcorn and apple cider at the grocery store. Toss in a few silent black & white DVDs (last I checked at my video store, copies of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and Murnau's Nosferatu were still available) and throw your bag in the back seat or the basket of your bike as you head across the neighborhood. Watch out for black cats along the way.

Custom Bags at the Airport

One place custom bags come in handy is the airport. Since passengers are only allowed one carry-on and one personal item, bags must be large, durable, and easy to carry. Custom bags can hold food, magazines, laptops, books, toiletries -- anything. Busy parents already carry shopping bags for their and their children’s belongings, since they don’t have time to organize a dozen different pockets and flaps. When travelers make it through security, they can toss their wallets or purses into the custom bag in order to comply by the two-bag requirement. Hundreds of thousands of people pass through the world’s busiest airports each day, so imagine the exposure custom bags could bring your logo when they hang from the shoulders of travelers.

Trick or Treat with Custom Bags

Consider passing out custom bags this week as candy carriers for the little people related to your clients or employees. For kids who want to collect as much candy as possible -- meaning all kids -- cute plastic pumpkin baskets don’t cut it. Pillowcases and large grocery bags are where it’s at. The kids don’t care if the bag is Halloween-colored; they just care that it’s large, easy to carry, and won’t fall apart. Custom bags are both durable and inexpensive, so consider marketing your brand to all the front doors of the neighborhood by giving away reusable custom bags with your company’s logo.

Custom Bags for Carrying Crafts

Celebrate the cottage industry by carrying your craft supplies in custom bags. Cottage industries predated, and led to, the process of mass production in the Industrial Revolution. Cottage industries emerged as a way for non-land-owning, uneducated, and unskilled commoners to make a living out of their homes. They combined the processes of carding, spinning and weaving in order to make cloth. They then sold the cloth to people in the community and exported the rest. Use custom bags to harken back to the days before mass production, when clothing was handmade. Support your local artisans by buying local, and appreciate their work by trying your own hand at crafts. Keep wool and other materials in a reusable custom bag, and learn to knit or sew.

Custom Bags to Use and Reuse

Custom bags are basic necessities that help society function efficiently and effectively. Did you know that United States citizens go through approximately 380 billion plastic bags and over ten billion paper bags each year? Those statistics fail to take into account the effects of such high consumption of these products on the state of the environment.

The pollution caused by the production process for plastic infuses the world’s oceans, air, and land. When ingested by animals and marine life, plastic debris often has deadly consequences, as it can clog their intestines and cause them to starve to death. The mere presence of custom bags made from plastic in oceans kills thousands, if not millions, of animals when they get entangled in plastic waste. A common cause of death among animals is choking or drowning due to becoming hopelessly ensnared in plastic litter like custom bags.

Paper bags are another variety of custom bags frequently used in grocery stores and retail establishments, but paper bags are just as responsible as plastic bags when it comes to hurting the planet. The millions of trees required to produce our current surplus of paper custom bags are a high price to pay for a luxury like paper. Trees give living beings the oxygen we need to survive, not to mention their abilities to reduce harmful pollutants in the air, house countless species of wildlife, and prevent erosion.

With the affordability and durability of reusable custom bags, there is no reason for society’s continued reliance on paper and plastic bags. By investing in eco-friendly custom bags now, we will be doing our part to help protect the Earth’s environment so that our descendants can enjoy it for many generations to come.