What have you done, Mark
this could be a case where you should consider having groceries delivered to your home.
That’s generally even worse, cause the shop-at-home people will automatically buy the cheapest bags at cost to you and they will add up with every grocery delivery.
In my region they use returnable bags or boxes. You return them during your next delivery.
When I’m done unloading at home, I hang them on the doorknob so I remember them next time I leave.
Speaking of forgetful, don’t forget to run those bags through the wash every now and then.
Those things will harbor some nasty bacteria if you let them.
Good call
When grocery stores were fighting the California bag ban, they used that argument to claim disposable bag bans hurt the poor. Who would have thunk you could just wash them?
Huh I actually never considered that, thanks! I’ll chuck it in the machine next time I wash my dog’s harness
I leave a pile by the front door so I take them to my car next time I go out
Hopefully this is just a meme because if you actually do this it’s more wasteful than just using a disposable bag once and bringing your reusable ones next time.
Provided that you’re not throwing the excess out, it’s not too bad? They’re reusable but they do wear out eventually, and when that happens you can just draw from the backlog.
Alternatively you can always use them for other things - I don’t keep 37 of them, but the handful I have I’m always using for stuff which isn’t just groceries.
This post is a meme.
It’s about a situation that happens in reality all the time.
And yes, it’s the reason why widespread random banning of things has usually worse results than doing nothing.
Many places aren’t allowed to give disposable ones anymore.
At all?? They don’t even have paper bags?
Have you ever bought food before?
Nope never I’m a lil baby
Apparently
Different places, different laws
I’m thinking his parents are the ones that go grocery shopping.
Here you can still find paper bags (and even plastic bags if you ask). I guess the other commenter lives somewhere similar
They live in the US
Yes
Catch me in line breaking down the boxes of the things I bought so I can construct a carrying device
The grocery we use keeps boxes by the checkout. Saves them throwing them out, since they get hundreds from suppliers.
Ooh yeah I’ve seen this at a few stores, great practice.
Right. Is everyone going to clap after too?
Yep and that wave of communal fervor will usher in sweeping changes reinstating the noble paper bag
Some, like me, will even shed tears of joy and pride, ask for selfies and autographs.
It’s kinda weird around here, because the law doesn’t ban paper bags, but all the stores around me stopped carrying them in favor of thicker ‘reusable’ plastic bags.
At least the ‘reusable’ plastic bags fold up and fit nice in my purse, so I can actually reuse them, but I’m pretty sure most people treat them as single use plastic.
Hopefully this is just a meme
posted on /c/memes
Yeah, I think this might be a meme. We need more investigation though.
Keep one in your back seat at all times, keep another in your trunk, then remember to bring one every time you go to the store. If you forget, you have the one in the back seat, just put a new one there later. If you forget to do that, you got the trunk backup, just replace that later.
Wanna get real fun? Keep all of your reusable bags in the trunk.
What if I forget to replace them though. That’s my issue.
Again, keep ALL of them in your car, then you’d need to forget like 36 times in a row before it comes a problem.
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.
I’m in this picture and I don’t like it
Curse of ADHD.
Only way I’ve found around it is to throw a few bags right back in the car after unloading.
None of that, “I’ll do it in a few minutes, I won’t forget” nonsense. I absolutely will forget. I can set an alarm for 10 minutes, but then I’m doing something else already and I’ll silence it, thinking “oh yeah, I almost forgot! I’ll do that just as soon as I’m done doing…”
Nope. Bring groceries inside. Go pee. Unload groceries. Return bags to car. If I follow those steps, I’ll remember lol
Get a notes app on your phone and then get in the habit of checking it and using it.
It is hard at first but now I use it a lot
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.
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
when you inevitably accrue a metric fuck-ton of these please remember that a lot of charity shops (at least the ones in the UK) are grateful for them
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.
Too real
