Comments on: Reusable totes are awesome. When you don’t suck, and actually bring them.

By: Athena

Athena — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 09:57:45 +0000

Here in Switzerland they don’t give you a bag at the grocery store. They just scanned it rapid fire and shoot it down the counter at you, where you should be quickly putting it in your own bags and then without delay also be ready to pay as soon as the scanning is finished. Stress!

I usually hang the bags on the front door handle to force myself to take them back to the car next time I go out. Usually this works. Sometimes not.

The worst thing is when you go all the way through the store, do all the shopping and only then realize that the bags are in the car. Last time this happened, I decided to put all the groceries back into the trolley after the cashier scanned them – without a bag. As I was shopping I kept thinking that this would be embarrassing, but I really did not want to buy more bags, so I did it. By the time I was checking out, I was mentally daring anyone to look at me funny. Dammit – I was saving the planet.

By: Leighann of Multi-Minding Mom

Leighann of Multi-Minding Mom — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:31:43 +0000

To remember my bags I actually have twice as many as I need. When I return from the store I fold them back up and put them with my keys. Next trip to the car I put them in the trunk.

Now I’m not perfect. I forget sometimes. I often get inside Target and realize they are in the car.

And because sometimes I, too, am a lazy douche, if my kids are with me, I absolutely do not go back out and get the bags.

I do more good than bad and that’s all I can ask of myself.
.-= Leighann of Multi-Minding Mom´s last blog ..Survivor is Lost on Me =-.

By: K8spade

K8spade — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 01:01:57 +0000

Keep them in the car. Right on the back seat, next to the car seat, so you see them when you get out of the car. (Doing double duty as a handy toddler toy on the drive) Then they inevitably spend the next 3 weeks sitting on the kitchen floor until you finally think to take them back out to the car…but that’s your problem, not mine.
.-= K8spade´s last blog ..Sometimes There Aren’t Any Words =-.

By: Josh

Josh — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 21:33:35 +0000

Yeah… all this has been said.

We have more than we need so it takes two mess ups to be without bags. There is no “place” for them in the house so they have to go back to the car. We either take them right back out to the car or hang them on the front door knob until we go back out.

And when I say we i mean my wife…I always forget.

Lotus-
I think I need to encourage you to give yourself a fucking break. You are your worst critic and I hate to hear you self-flagellate yourself too often.

I will say that with your public blog, I am sure you get some pretty ridiculous comments/emails to rival the worst critic cliche.
.-= Josh´s last blog ..Big Day!! Firehouse & First Bath!! =-.

By: Kaytabug

Kaytabug — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 19:38:45 +0000

Since we seem to be kindred and/or sisters from another mother… You are not the only one to have had that exact convo with yourself. Just sayin’.
I would buy bags even though I had bags but had forgotten them. So now that my collection is that extensive I keep some in my car and always replenish. I also have one that folds up so small that I keep in my purse. When I whip it out of my tiny purse in the store everyone around me has bag envy.
.-= Kaytabug´s last blog ..Eye See Macro Monday =-.