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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
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. =/
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.
I’m still hacked off that the bag fee was created only as a punishment for single use plastic bags, then once plastic bags were phased out the cunts kept it in and raised the cost with different tiers of biodegradable, reusable and woven bags.
In theory you just have a dozen or so bags that you can take with you every time. The knee-jerk reaction is to call it something the company does to offload responsibility, but unfortunately for us Americans this is the norm in many other places in the world and they deal with it fine.
That is cuntish. Where was that?
Definitely in Australia. After single use got banned, the new plastic bags were 10c and were good enough they could be reused. When they got banned, we got stuck with paper ones for 25c or woven ones for a couple dollars.
They also released $15 “washable paper bags” that I don’t understand who is the target audience.
When they got banned, we got stuck with paper ones for 25c
Cheeky bastards! We had a single use for €0.25 for a while but that’s long gone. Paper bags are still free. They’re generally small unless you’re buying clothes or whatever. You definitely wouldn’t be bagging the weekly shop with them but most places offer free boxes from the shelf stocking leftovers.
They also released $15 “washable paper bags” that I don’t understand who is the target audience.
Very, very rich people is the answer. Surely the amount of energy to wash one is not that far off a fresh paper bag.
The thing is, even for rich people, the cooler bags are cheaper AND better, they’re lined to keep cold things cool longer, and they hold a nice square shape, the sides are stable with nothing in them, so they’re very easy to pack, and they’re super durable, for only $3. They can be washed just as easily as any other bag, and can be zipped closed.
Their fabric ones are also good size, quality, and washable, also for $3.
The $15 ones simply make no sense.
I am in NY state and this happened here, not sure where Lyra is though.
Paper bags are $0.05 each Reusable bags vary by store, size, and design but are usually $1 - $2 depending on the bag design and size Thermal reusable bags vary from a few $$ to $10 depending on size
For a while Walmart didn’t have any paper bags or reusable bags, that was fun.
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.
Some reusable bags are just clunky. The ideal ones are those you can fold to the point you fit it on your purse or pocket.
I have a great system where I load up a lot of bags into my car so I basically always have access to reusable bags when I drive to the store. And then I promptly forget the bags in the car when I shop and end up with freaking single use plastic anyways.
I was reading that and thought “yeah man great system but then you forget those too!”. Then I read the second part, I feels you man
I get boxes from work and just keep a couple in the back of my truck, also keeps my groceries from sliding around the bed. Get boxes when you can their great, I’m keeping my eyes out for a roadside milk crate to replace them though.
Keep the bags, or at least a few, in your car.
My problem is remembering to bring them back to my car.
My system is that after I unpack the shopping at home, I leave the bag beside the front door. Then next time I go outside I see it like “Oh yeah, the bag!” and put it in the car.
Works for me.
I end up with a pile of bags by my door that “I’ll pick up next time.”
Yaa or carabiner (at least) one to car keys as the reminder - when they don’t fit in your pocket that can be the sign to grab them all and bring to car
But I keep forgetting where I parked my car with the bags in it! So I just buy another one. I am deeply in debt…
I do like to collect them but I never need a fifth examplar of that bad quality overpriced one they are offering…
Get a foldable bag that you can stuff in your main carryon (purse, backpack, etc) in the event you forget
It’s a good backup. Just gotta put it back once you unload everything or else you forget about it
Just gotta put it back once you unload everything or else you forget about it
Therein lies the problem
It would be easier to think puting it back into the carryon rather than the car.
I usually forget the big bags I have because I say I’ll put it back in the car tomorrow and that ends up being like next week, but the small foldable ones I have always go in and out of my fanny pack immediately, mostly cause if im unloading groceries I still have my fanny pack on and the act of folding it reminds me to put it back
No, no, I don’t think you understand. These already make up 20 of the ones I forgot at home. The problem isn’t not having enough bags.
I just make sure i have bags in everything: my fanny pack, my work backpack, and my car. My car has like 3-5 at the very least, so I use one and forget about it, at least I have some more. I’ll probably even add one in my wallet just in case. Redundancy is my solution to being forgetful
Problem is I don’t generally like to walk around with a backpack or purse unless I’m traveling or spending a very long day away from home.
Yea thats the one problem. You could get a clipon for your keychain but it feels bulky imo
People still use bags? I don’t have a car but I go on public transit with my cart and I haven’t used bags in forever and even if I did have a car I wouldn’t use them because I would just load them directly into my car. Tbh there’s not a lot of uses for bags imo. They just seem like it’s all extra baggage… Ha…
I leave mine in the trunk and have only walked into the store without them twice. Not forgetting them before walking into the store and putting them back into the trunk after unloading them is the hardest part.
**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 just throw it all in my car and transfer it to bags when I get home.
When I’m done unloading at home, I hang them on the doorknob so I remember them next time I leave.
