I use the bags I bring fruit and vegs home from the store.  I keep the
current one in a small plastic waste basket,  I scoop several times a day
and just open the bag and put it in.  Every other day I tie it closed and
put it out with the trash.  Easy and economical.  MLB

I buy the smallest garbage bags I can find (4 gallon, I think, but might be
smaller) and use a regular little trash can in the bathroom.  I scoop twice
a day and throw the bag out every day.  I don't even bother trying to seal
off the bag between scoops, as it doesn't really smell.  I use World's Best
Cat Litter, which is also flushable.  I do sometimes flush the clumps but
try not to do it too much, because they keep sending notices around warning
tenants not to flush any litter.  I do flush the poop about 90% of the time,
though.  Hardly any litter sticks to the turds so I don't worry about
flushing them.

At work, where we have two cats, I have a Fisher Price diaper disposal.
It's very basic and doesn't require any special bags or liners, just regular
old garbage bags.  I scoop clumps from the 4 litter boxes into a small
plastic bag, tie it closed and put it in the disposal.  I empty that
whenever it gets full, maybe every 3 weeks or so.

Other small cheap bags that work well for scooping are plastic food storage
bags you can find in any dollar store.  They have no ziplock seal or
anything, just a plain bag.  I get them 50 for $1, and they also work in the
little garbage can I have in my bathroom at home.  I only buy those if I
can't find my preferred bags, because I have had problems with the cheap
bags splitting as I was carrying it to the trash.  Having to clean up a pile
of litter-n-poop from my living room floor is worth spending a little more
than $1 for the bags.

--
Liz

I use grocery store bags but I don't put them in anything. I just
scoop into them, and carry it out to the trash. They're free, so I
don't try to "fill" them. I did once have a situation where I ran
out of bags. I don't know how because these days I have way too
many. LOL I guess it depends on the checkout bagger. Some stores
have better bags for litter, though. Some just tear too easily and
they already have holes before groceries are taken out. With these,
I double bag. :)

John Doe <jdoe@usenet.love.invalid> wrote in
rec.pets.cats.health+behav:

I've always used grocery bags.  I have a grocery bag "sock" that I
ball them up into and I can pull them out one at a time.  The bag
stays open well enough for me to dump clumps into.  Then I just spin
it closed and toss it.  I do have to inspect bags before they go into
the sock, though.  I've gotten a few with holes in them.

You know, it's weird what grosses one out and what doesn't.  I have
no problem dealing with litter and everything else the cat manages to
do, but one thing that gives me heebees is soap dispenser "boogers."  
Go figure.

How often should you change the complete box of litter?  I notice no matter
how well I scoop, the remaining litter always seems a little 'used'
especially when I poar a little more on top to replace what I just scooped.
It makes me want to just replace the entire box of litter every time.  We
have two cats, a 11lb cutie and a 17lb giant fur ball : )

I have a big old (5 gallon?) round green container with a white top
that was originally filled with White Castle pickle slices. I line it
with a new kitchen garbage bag and fill it maybe halfway to the top.
Then I tie it off, put it in an old grocery bag (small holes are ok),
and put it in the garbage. The sanitation guys complain if cat litter
isn't double-bagged. Prima donnas but I understand. It is the only
thing that I use new plastic bags for.

I have two garbages in the kitchen. A small one is for wet or
potentially smelly garbage. That one I use doublelined with two old
grocery bags, both checked for holes by blowing them up by mouth and
squeezing to see if they leak. The large one is for stuff that is
unlikely to smell and that uses bigger old bags and can sit for a week
or two before joining the trash.

Food scraps of other than meat stuff goes into the compost heap.