I've been using hessian bags for about ten years, every time we go shopping. Making sure we've got our bags is as 'second nature' as making sure we've got money and car keys.
Not all of us go shopping in cars and not all of us make a planned shopping trip. I go into town to meet someone for a coffee and then decide to do a bit of shopping.
Not all of us go shopping in cars and not all of us make a planned shopping trip. I go into town to meet someone for a coffee and then decide to do a bit of shopping.
I have not done a planned shop for a few months.
I met someone for a coffee last week and on the way back to the car I saw a book my mother would like in W H Smiths so popped in to buy it. I also bought her three adult colouring books and some new pencils and a bottle of water. At the till they asked me to pay for a bag and I said no (I could sell them a few the amount I have). I ended up juggling the lot whilst trying to find my car keys etc. That will teach me to be mean. However, I do agree that sometimes shopping isn't planned.
I met someone for a coffee last week and on the way back to the car I saw a book my mother would like in W H Smiths so popped in to buy it. I also bought her three adult colouring books and some new pencils and a bottle of water. At the till they asked me to pay for a bag and I said no (I could sell them a few the amount I have). I ended up juggling the lot whilst trying to find my car keys etc. That will teach me to be mean. However, I do agree that sometimes shopping isn't planned.
A bag cost a few pence, even when the time comes that we have to pay for a bag will not stop me. 5p for a bag is peanuts as long as it is a decent bag.
I am going to town on Saturday to meet a mate for coffee, shopping is not planned, so a bag I will not take and where am I suppose to put this bag anyway?
A bag cost a few pence, even when the time comes that we have to pay for a bag will not stop me. 5p for a bag is peanuts as long as it is a decent bag.
I am going to town on Saturday to meet a mate for coffee, shopping is not planned, so a bag I will not take and where am I suppose to put this bag anyway?
We've got a cupboard full of them. I use them for putting the recycling in (yes I know plastic bags need to go in the normal bin), cat litter, dead batteries (I take them to be recycled once I have a load) and as liners for the bins in the bathrooms.
Tesco used to have a recycling thing for old plastic bags, but it seems to have disappeared now. I used to take them over to that when it was there.
I would find it difficult to count mine as I picked up a whole pack of new unseparated Tesco bags I found in a shopping trolley just left in a trolley park, How they got to be there I can't imagine.
I have quite a few but can't be bothered to count them. I keep a carrier bag stuffed full of them in a cupboard but rarely reuse them for shopping as I have the stronger reusables for that. I mainly use them for double wrapping anything smelly going in my bin or wrapping shoes etc she packing a suitcase. I also use them if friends come round to borrow a few books. I must use them for other things too but can't think what at the moment.
I am old enough to remember my old mum carefully flattening and folding packaging and storing it away. Things were not over packaged in those days it was mainly brown paper bags or a bit of greaseproof paper. Even used .to get a block of salt wrapped in greaseproof and you had to grind it yourself, painful if you had a cut on you hand as there were no rubber gloves, well not in our house in the 50's.
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Not all of us go shopping in cars and not all of us make a planned shopping trip. I go into town to meet someone for a coffee and then decide to do a bit of shopping.
I have not done a planned shop for a few months.
I met someone for a coffee last week and on the way back to the car I saw a book my mother would like in W H Smiths so popped in to buy it. I also bought her three adult colouring books and some new pencils and a bottle of water. At the till they asked me to pay for a bag and I said no (I could sell them a few the amount I have). I ended up juggling the lot whilst trying to find my car keys etc. That will teach me to be mean.
A bag cost a few pence, even when the time comes that we have to pay for a bag will not stop me. 5p for a bag is peanuts as long as it is a decent bag.
I am going to town on Saturday to meet a mate for coffee, shopping is not planned, so a bag I will not take and where am I suppose to put this bag anyway?
Several options open to you there.
Tesco used to have a recycling thing for old plastic bags, but it seems to have disappeared now. I used to take them over to that when it was there.
I am old enough to remember my old mum carefully flattening and folding packaging and storing it away. Things were not over packaged in those days it was mainly brown paper bags or a bit of greaseproof paper. Even used .to get a block of salt wrapped in greaseproof and you had to grind it yourself, painful if you had a cut on you hand as there were no rubber gloves, well not in our house in the 50's.
And for you as well.