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I have cloth bags that have to be folded back up and put back inside of a zip-up bag. When I go grocery shopping, it’s extra time with the cashier helping me bag my stuff after they ring it all up while other people in line are sighing and giving me dirty looks, extra time taking all of my groceries out of the bags in my kitchen to put them away and then more extra time to put the bags away and put them back in the car. So, my preference at this point is throwing everything back in the cart after purchase and then bringing as much as I can carry at a time in a laundry basket from the car to the house. Overall, it’s actually faster and less effort that way, especially since I end up forgetting to take the damn bags in the store half the time anyway. A garage is a necessity to make this strategy work, though.
JUST GET THE SINGLE USE BAGS.
They are much better for the environment. You can even reuse them. The reusable ones use much more plastic hence are much worse if you don’t regularly reuse them.
Cloth bags are even worse. But very nice.
Single use are banned in some places.
Only if they are free, no? Thought you having to pay for them solves the issue of people being people.
Single use is outright banned in many palces.
Which I kinda don’t mind, because several times in recent years I ended up with groceries all over the parking lot because of how flimsy they were made. Now you have to pay for them, but at least they’re sturdy.
I live in a US state that’s banned plastic bags. It is always funny seeing people from other states being shocked that there isn’t any plastic.
It’s going to be so annoying when my state starts doing this
Not necessarily if it is done correctly
I made grabbing the bags part of my routine. I can remember anything when it is part of my routine.
You want forgetful? My gf and I keep a whole bag of bags in the trunk of our car. Every single time we go shopping, we forget to grab them, buy one in the store, and then add it to the bags in the trunk. It’s a viscous cycle.
Try to dilute them with other types of containers, it might help.
You definitely need to do something about it if the bags are starting to melt
I had to read this twice, think about it for 20 minutes, then read my comment again. I’m leaving it.
I don’t understand how you people can go outside without a bag, let alone an extra bag inside it. How can you just go places with no inventory slots???
You get -2 speed penalty for every bag you equip, and my camp mates always clutter the doorway with their melee tools and weapons instead of with containers.
Because someone doesn’t put the bags back in the bag of bags, so the bag of bags is now just a bag, and I can’t use that bag, because it’s the bag that contains the bags, except, you know, it doesn’t.
Where do those bags go? Not saying this someone shouldn’t be just putting the bags away but surely they must go somewhere?
I just keep the bags I use for groceries on the backdoor door handle. Once everything is empty they all kinda have to go back together or they’d just be strewn about the kitchen and the place they go is beside the fridge.
I have two Trader Joe’s thermal bags, they’re just the right shape to hold the regular square shopping bags folded up.
I then have a full set of the old discontinued Wegmans thermal bags. They’re sturdy AF and they fold up somewhat compact.
So basically I have two full sets of bags and either one of them will handle a weekly shopping trip for a house of four.
When I bring the 200lbs of shopping in, start putting it away, realize that there’s a bunch of crap in the fridge that needs to go before it’ll fit so I clean the fridge, realize I need to reorganize the freezer to put it in the right place, 30-40 minutes later I finally fold up the bags and put them back into their proper configuration, The last thing I want to do is walk all the way back out to the car so I just set them down next to the door like I’ll remember to put them in the car next time. (Rumba does not remember to put them in the car next time)
A full batch of paper bags at the grocery store still cost less than the cheapest item I buy. I don’t feel good about it but I can’t seem to break the rut.
Me putting 6 (3 more than I’m sure I’ll need) in my backpack (which is storage overkill now) and then since I’m like a primitive creature or something where if I don’t see it it doesn’t exist, I forget that I have the bags after checking out.
Where I live Aldi is the only store that actually has any workflow that makes sense for reusable bags. All of my reusable bags have been repurposed for storing contents of “ADHD doom boxes” so I now just have multiple bags of Aldi paper bags which float between my car, my office and the reusable bag storing spot at home, and I’ll either buy a couple more bags when I forget or just keep reusing them until they’re entirely worn out and get tossed into the recycling bin. I think I may have accidentally stumbled upon the best possible solution for my situation because I end up reusing single-use paper bags dozens of times before they get recycled (and because they’re paper they’ll actually break down within my lifetime unlike the single-use plastic bags that hold less)
The spice must flow…
On reusable bags
I don’t use any bags anymore if i can help it. I just load them into my trunk and use a little crate with wheels and a handle on it to bring groceries inside. The crate never leaves my home, so I can’t forget it.
I do the same. The only problem is that i never have any coins for the cart.
Ask some stores if they can help you with that.
The last store I asked this to gave me a keychain that I can use for the carts. Before that they gave me tokens which I held in my car.
If you’re driving, just load it into your cart, then load it into your car, then load it into your bag, and take it inside. If you’re taking a bike or the bus, I’m sorry about your 37 reusable bags.
This is what I do 99% of the time because even when I do remember to put them back into the trunk after using them, I never remember to bring them into the store.
Ideas for people like us:
Same store evertim? “Siri remind me bags when I arrive at $nameOfStore”
Same day/time evertim? Set alarm
Looks like your ‘y’ key isn’t working. Might wanna look into it.
I wonder if it would help if I taped a bag with my name on it under the seat on each bus I could conceivably take to different grocery stores? But then I’d have to remember to take the bag out from under the seat 😆
But seriously, I do have a bag in my backpack, but I’m not always wearing my backpack 🤦🏻
You would assuredly be investigated for drug running. Why not tie a plastic bag to your keychain? Compressed into a knot, it takes up fairly little space.
If you’re taking a bike get a cargo bike or use pannier bags, and then just build a house that’s designed so you can ride your bike all the way to the fridge/pantry 😂
If you live in an apartment building get one of those foldable trolleys and keep it next to where you lock your bicycle.
At one point I made grocery trips for 3 on my motorbike with a 70L rucksack lol
I take bike/bus…I bring reusable bags. =/
I’ve never really had that problem, because I almost always carry a large-ish backpack with a cotton bag folded inside, but it would be neat if stores had a box near the checkout where you could leave your extra bags for other clients to use for free.
One of the libraries I go to does something like that, they keep some bags near the front desk and give them to users who need something to carry their books. I’ve given them two bags I had no use for. And I know a bulk food store where you can leave empty containers for other clients to use.
In England we call them “bags for life” which I imagine is because they will just stay around forever and multiply because you keep forgetting them.
**The occasional plastic carrier bag is fine **
A single-use plastic bag: the sin of any environmentalist. Many of us know the agonising pain of turning up at the supermarket, then realising you’ve left your reusable shopping bags at home. The next 10 minutes is a comedy show, seeing how many items you can stuff into your pockets, clutch in your arms, and even grip between your teeth. You will not let the team down by asking for a plastic bag. I do the same. Even though I know better: the data shows us that the occasional plastic carrier bag is not that big a deal. In fact, in many ways, a single-use plastic bag is better than some alternatives. At least when it comes to the carbon footprint, it’s much lower than the rest. You’d need to use a paper bag several times, and a cotton one tens to hundreds of times to ‘break even’ with the plastic carrier.35, 36 This is also true for other environmental impacts such as water use, acidification, and the pollution of water with nutrients such as nitrogen. This doesn’t mean you should switch back to using single-use carrier bags: it just means you should make sure you’re reusing the other types of bags a lot. If you’re buying a new organic tote bag every second visit, you’re really making things worse. And as seen in previous chapters, you should be focusing much more on what you put in the bag than the bag itself. It will have a much bigger environmental impact. The problem with plastic bags, then, is that they can pollute our waterways. But, like any other form of waste, only if we don’t manage it properly. In rich countries, unless you’re littering near a river or coastline, they’re probably not going to end up in the ocean. Even sending it to landfill is not a big deal. This is a problem in low- to middle-income countries where the use of plastic bags is on the rise but the infrastructure to deal with the waste is not. That’s where tight rules on single-use plastic bags, and the availability of alternatives, really make a difference. So, be conscious of how much you’re using. Take a rucksack or a sturdy bag and reuse it again and again. But you don’t need to stress out if you reach the supermarket till and realise you’ve left it at home.
“Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet” by Hannah Ritchie
I’m not going to pretend to be a expert but from my personal observations I think the banning of plastic bags in my state has made a big difference. Before the ban there were plastic bags everywhere and they would blow around and get stuck in trees and anything else in the way.
After about 6 months I notices the difference. The environment seems to be a lot cleaner now that there isn’t plastic everywhere. The problem hasn’t gone away entirely but it has been reduced.
