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 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???
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.
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.
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.
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.
Many places aren’t allowed to give disposable ones anymore.
At all?? They don’t even have paper bags?
Yes
Catch me in line breaking down the boxes of the things I bought so I can construct a carrying device
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.
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.
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.
Have you ever bought food before?
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
Nope never I’m a lil baby
Apparently
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.
Hopefully this is just a meme
posted on /c/memes
Yeah, I think this might be a meme. We need more investigation though.
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.
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.
Huh I actually never considered that, thanks! I’ll chuck it in the machine next time I wash my dog’s harness
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?
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…
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
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.
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 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.
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 just throw it all in my car and transfer it to bags when I get home.
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?
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.
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 love my cheap TOTES. That being said, I use theplastic ones for bin bags so I usually get a little supply.
I like how my state in the US actually managed to do something right for a change.
We phased out plastic for the most part (there is a small business exception) via a tax and now paper bags a free everywhere and many stores sell reusable bags. There was never any mandate to offer paper bags or reusable bags it was just something the free market figured out on its own. Simple legislation made the world a better place.
Too real
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.
