Whether you are looking for a quick holiday gift, spring cleaning, or back to school ideas think cosmetic bags!  If you are like me, or my daughter, or my friends, you stock up on your favorite cosmetics 2x a year...at "Bonus" time and with all your freebies you also get a little cosmetic bag.  I have used a few of them until they were totally worn out but then I had at least a half dozen new ones under my sink just waiting to be used.

Well clean them out and put them to good use!  Recently in lieu of stuffing stockings full of school supplies for a low income school, I pulled them out and then went to a $1 type store and purchased plain blue and black bags (for those who may not want flowered bags) as well as pens, pencils, erasers, and sticky notes. The bags are now full and ready to be given out.  Perhaps pens and pencils are not your idea of a fun gift but there are lots of other uses for those bags such as:

• Fill with extra samples
• Toiletries
• Feminine hygiene products
• anything else you can think of           

Donate these to under privileged schools, homeless shelters, shelters for battered women, food banks...use your imagination and use those bags!

Cheers!

Paula