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[redmaples]

Bring Your Own Bag...

How many people bring your own bag to the grocery or other stores??
And what kind of reactions do you get?


It is not common practice in this area though some of the stores do try to promote sales of their own expensive canvas totes. It really would save a lot of waste & cost to the stores if people brought their own bags or boxes. But it doesn't seem to matter....to much of anyone.

I have a bunch of nice wooden handled canvas totes & few woven bags that work nicely for shopping. I also found that smaller tote works great too. Cashiers sometimes act as if it is odd, but I am glad not to have millions of plastic bags around here.

I also ask for paper when I don't have my own bags.

[kymom]

I only shop once a month and I bring my own bags. I have 30 or so cloth bags I have collected. And I use them. I shop alot at save alots so it is a bag your own store and nothing new. But whenI went into krogers they thought I was a weirdo! lol Now in October and November I will get store bags. I crochet them into winter door rugs.

[redmaples]

Very Nice, how do you crochet bags into rugs? Now that is resourceful!
I might have to try.

[i.m.cheap]

I take my own bags to Aldi. We do have to have some of the paper bags for our curbside recycling, they want all the items sorted into paper grocery bags. We use the plastic grocery bags to line our smaller wastebaskets around the house. We also use the plastic grocery sacks to pick up after our dog on walks. Any bags we bring home are usually reused in some way.

[kabin63]

I take my own bags to Aldi, or I get some of their boxes to cart home groceries in. I use all the other plastic bags for my small waste baskets at home too.

[cspp04]

i use cloth bags that i keep hanging on a hook inside the door of my utility closet. these bags have made the rounds and look it, too! even though i launder them once in a while, they look like very worn, very old, very stained canvas bags.....and i wouldn't dare part with them. i think i've had one for close to 10 years now

i once used plastic bags to crochet a tote bag. it was a lot of work and i don't think i'd go through that again...lol

[miss_thrifty]

alot do here, i wish they would give them out free, cost over $3.00 for one, and i wild need at least 10 to 12 a week. I have homemade ones , sometimes i use if i only need afew things. mostly i dont bring anyhting, i use those dang plastic bags, they do get recycled here but still.

[lottaLove]

When we go grocery shopping, we either shop at a store called No Frills or one called Food Basics. At these stores you can either buy a plastic grocery bag for 5 cents, or you can use their extra boxes from stocking the shelves for free. We usually either bring our own bags, or use the free boxes.

[tigo]

I find it depends on the store. My mom and sis get canvas bags all the time (mom is in education and sis in computers) as freebies at conventions and such so my collection is quiet colorful but free. I also have a few I have found at thrift stores (actually found a few from a pizza place that I use to hold refridgerated items). Those clerks that roll their eyes aren't really a concern since the kids and I do the bagging for them.

[Michelle-Lea]

I have like 15 canvas bags that I keep in the back of my van for whenever I stop at a store. I got so used to using them at Aldi that I use them almost everywhere I go now. The Wal-Mart cashiers really don't like it..

[kymom]

Originally Posted by redmaples

Very Nice, how do you crochet bags into rugs? Now that is resourceful!
I might have to try.

I cut them in strips and tie them all together and crochet a long chain. Roll it up and stich together and keep going until it is the size I want. I have backed a few and they lasted three years.

[miss_thrifty]

oh about the plastic bage , i had afriend whos mother would do beautiful work in crocheted platic bags, hats, rugs, etc, but she stopped after finding out that bags degrade and the gas and emissions they give off beacause in bulk are not good for us, so she quit making them.
Too bad too, beacuse thyere so useful otherwise for making many things.

[PennyPinchinPam]

I use a canvas bag on my quick trips for a few things but on my big trips I will get either the plastic bags or paper bags. Whichever way I do it they get recycled either here at home or through my kids school recycling program. I've also been re-using the paper bags to wrap my dh's packages that we've been sending to the Middle East during this deployment.

[nuisance26]

~I only use my cloth totes(that I made) at Aldi. Everywhere else I take their free bags and use them for trash at home. I'm a penny-pincher! I do re-use my Shoprite bags because they give you .02 credit for each bag you re-use.

[Maisiedotes]

A group of friends and I (they are all over the country) were going to write letters to our area grocery stores- here in maine we have mainly hannaford and shaws- to encourage them to put cloth bags in other areas besides the health food section. I know at our stores they usually have the display off in a corner where nobody can really even see them. Hannaford offers a discount (I think it is 5 cents per bag) if you bring your own- that is incentive enough for me!

It just seems like more people would bring their own if there was a little savings, and if the idea was in their heads from seeing the bags in other parts of the store. I always bring my own and nobody seems to bat an eye- I see alot of people doing it at some stores.