So now that I've been prodded to use less plastic bags when I do groceries (see last post), I decided I should invest in some shopping bags. I thought the ones in the grocery store were canvas, and therefore would be heavy and expensive. And then my brother and I looked at them earlier this week, and we mocked them for being so small: Ho ho ho! You can fit nary a leek in tha' bag!
But as we packed our groceries, the girl across from us whose mother had just bought some, unfolded this thing like a clown car and exclaimed at the size. And I too, admiring, exclaimèd.
So in the grocery store today I checked out said bags and, behold--they were only 99 cents. Well! What was I looking in the dollar store for? I bought five. I was able to fit all my groceries without resorting to my backpack, and they're more comfortable to hold than plastic bags. They're so capacious, the food fits all snug, and when on the bus I didn't have cans trying to escape, and milk cutting holes in the sides.
They're made of recycled bottles; according to Maxi's site they'll last a year, and then you bring them into the store to be recycled. I have to say, I must recommend these most excellent bags. Wait, I'll take a picture to show you...
Tada! Compare if you dare! A jumbo box of Rice Krispies in the regular Maxi bag, compared to the eco bag which easily fits the jumbo box AND a big box of Life cereal.
You can also easily fit One Large Male Cat, or the box set DVD collections of the Marx Brothers, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, and Bertie Wooster, with room to spare.
Folds down into about the size of a DVD. :-)
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Those are cool.... We do have a couple of shopping bags purchased from Costco, which we invariably forget are in the car until we arrive at the checkout counter and the lineup is building behind us and the cashier asks, "paper or plastic.." Arrgh. Too late to run out to the car for them now... ;-)
But we'll get there.
It all reminds me of going shopping with my Granny Corriveau. We'd bring along the folding, re-useable paper bags, along with wooden handles to easy the strain on the fingers - and sometimes even the folding wire pull-cart and off we'd go to the corner stores about 5 blocks away.
And she'd shop until I dropped - she must have been in her 60's cause I was about 10 or 12...? That woman could WALK and she'd walk a mile to save another dime! I'm not making this up.
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