Do you have bags?

I don't have bags, but i do have what I call a shock box on my back seat.

Instead of packing groceries into bags & making several trips to carry 'em into the house, I just dump it into my shock box, bring the box into the house, unpack, 7 bring the empty shock box back to the car.

Why do I call it a shock box? Along the way, I ended up having to replace the shocks & springs on my vehicle. The springs were paired in what were shaped like abnormally long dominoes, & a pair of shocks were in the box that I took with me. That's why I call it a shock box.

Bags aren't taxed here Dawn, but an increasing number of supermarkets make you pay for the good ones and give flimsy awful ones for free - or not at all. We always have a few bags in the car and a few (thousand) more in the house. There are different styles that you can buy quite cheaply too. Once you build it into your shopping regime it's easy to remember to take them with you.

50 cents! wow, used to be a nickle

50 cents, wow. We only get 5 cnts per bag, and they have done this for years. I have several different re usable bags that I have gotten free online, Earthbound Farms, Stouffers, Delollo Olives. I have a few canvas as well. I still do not use them enough.

I do not live in California but I am very conscious about the environment.. More and more groceries stores offer re-usable bags for a low cost.. I have about 3 from Trader Joe's. I always take my bags with me to the grocery store... The cashier always seem very pleased to see a customer not wanting plastic... and I feel good about myself for doing that just like I feel good about recycling all my glass and plastic bottles. I hope your post will encourage people in a positive way.. Thanks for posting!
Cheers from Georgia

i think it's good, in my country,the government encourage people to use re-uesable bags and it's very cheap. i noticed that most of middle or elderly people like to use this kind of bags while some students like us usually take our own plastic to go shopping. sometimes we forgot to take plastic and have to buy one which is free before when we check.then we keep the plastic clean and used for next shopping time

hi downald,

at our place also grocecy bags are banned,in my suggestion it is better to use cloth bags and paper bags,for groceries

In Canada, we have a similar thing going on here. In the majority of the stores - many grocery stores - they are charging you for the plastic bags. I own a few "green bags" so I don't mind the fee, but many feel it is expensive and are against the idea. I personally don't mind it because by using "green bags" we get a to save the environment - and I am big on the whole green environment thing.

yes i have a bag.

i use my bag at school.

They're thinking of doing the same thing here...taxing the plastic bags...I do have the reusable kind but often will accept the plastic bags as well--if anything I use them as garbage bags, so I'm not buying separate plastic garbage bags