If you are buying turkey and onions, you’ve probably tossed lots of plastic net bags that. Don’t throw them away! They have lots of good uses.
Re-use the bags
The larger bags, like the ones covering your turkey, are good for storing garden produce next fall. The onions and garlic from your garden will store a long time if they are stored in a mesh bag and are kept in a cool room.
These larger mesh bags are also good for hanging up wet gloves in winter and swimsuits in the summer until they can dry. Or put bath toys in a mesh bag and hang them on a suction-cup hook that you attach to the shower wall
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And the smaller bags?
The smaller bags, the kind that onions (and sometime oranges or tangerines) come in, have plenty of good uses. They have a finer, smaller mesh, so they tend to tear and snag more. But that also makes them a little easier to work with. My favorite use for the is as washing and scrubbing pads.
Here’s another easy re-purpose:
Make one of those poofy pad things for showering. All you need is s strong nylon string or fishing wire. Thread it through the mesh in a running stitch and pull it into a poofy pad. Tie the string up and cut off the excess ends. If the nylon string doesn’t want to stay knotted, try melting the knot with a lit match. Just be careful that you don’t melt the netting!

Pro tip: Put left-over soap slivers inside the folds of the bag before sewing together. Now you can use the last bit of your bar soap and create a self-sudsing body scrubber.
Wait! There’s more!
Make a pot scrubber. (picture on left, below) Cut the bag into a continuous long strip and use it like yarn. A 3-4″ diameter scrubber will take 3-4 onion bags. I use a 1/2″ diameter curtain ring for the center and using a simple single-crochet stitch, crochet a round pad. It’s a super durable scrubby. And it’s made of plastic, so you don’t have to worry about it ruining your non-stick surfaces.

OR make a kitchen scrubby cloth. This one (pictured above right) is part yarn, part mesh, so you can both wash and scrub with it. It makes a great cleaning tool for just about anything: dishes, counters, bathroom surfaces, etc. Just like you did for the scrubby above, cut the bag into a continuous strip. Then use your favorite knit or crochet a washcloth pattern to make a cloth, knitting a strand of cotton yarn with a strand of mesh “yarn” as you work the cloth. (This is the pattern I used for the cloth, but there are lots more.)
Save money and save the landfill: give those mesh bags a new purpose.