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I was grocery shopping today and the store had reusable grocery bags for 99 cents a bag! I thought that was a great deal, and I bought two of them and used them right away for the rest of my groceries, and then put them back in the car after I unpacked the food at home. They’re cloth and have a nice wide, flat base and hold quite a bit. I was very happy to find them!

I think that reusable grocery bags are an excellent idea. It will save so many paper and plastic grocery bags. I know that they are really cracking down on this in California. There is a lot of talk about only using cloth bags, but I’m sure that it will not happen. People are too stubborn to change their ways.

Maybe I should go buy a bunch and sell them on eBay and see how they go! I’m thinking of picking up a couple more for myself for the odd occasion when I buy lots of groceries. My house is so full of plastic bags I can hardly stand it any more!

My home is full of plastic bags as well. I try to find good ways to use them, but it’s so hard when I have a cabinet full of them. If anybody finds any great uses, please post them! They will be very much appreciated.

As for me, I have bought a couple cloth bags to use for groceries.

I saw someone else with her reusable grocery bags yesterday. Thought that was cool.

As for recycling the plastic bags, well, if you ever send parcels, you can wad them up and use them instead of styrofoam peanuts or whatever, for padding. They are recyclable, and you can put them out with the rest of your recyclable garbage. Or at least you can here.

I don’t send many parcels, but that’s a great idea. They would make great packing material. Sometimes I use them for kitty litter when I clean out my cat’s litter box, so that it’s separated from the rest of the garbage.

We always use cloth grocery bags, and until now we got three cents off our groceries for every cloth bag we used. But just last night we went and the store has stopped the scheme after 20 years! It sucks! Wal-mart came to town, and now basically this store only does what Wal-mart does. I guess they are getting stung :(

You’d think that would be a good marketing ploy to get people to keep coming in and it’s a bad idea to stop doing it. With WalMart around, the other store needs to do all it can to keep its customers.

I use cloth bags, like I mentioned before, but something happened the other day that really bothered me. I was at the grocery store, and when I was checking out, the cashier was actually laughing at me! She told me that cloth grocery bags cause her a lot more trouble than plastic or paper, because she’s not used to them, and basically said that they were a waste of money.

I pointed out to her that she should get used to them, because they’re being used more and more these days.

Really and truly that is her problem, not yours. I know that you know that, but I also realise that it can be hard when you face that. It will get better, don’t worry!

I have been thinking about switching to cloth grocery bags, but I admit that I am a bit lazy, and am a creature of convenience. Maybe I’ll try to start out with one, and see how that works.

Penguinlover, I really suggest that you do spring for the cloth bags. They may not seem convenient at first, but they really are. You won’t have a ton of plastic bags laying around your house anymore!

I’ve been using cloth grocery bags for a few months now and even if the cashier (esp. in Wal-Mart) gives me a funny look, I still feel good about what I’m doing.  And there’s a carbon neutral co. I just found green-kits.com that sells cool bags with these little simple statements on them, which makes them kind of fun.

I actually never thouht of keeping grocery bags. I have always kept them just because our local ma & pap store dont give you bags unless you buy them. I have a whole cabinet full of them.

Perhaps its me but I thought all grocery bags were reusable? how come you can only use them once?

It sounds like a good idea, but I think some people will get annoyed with it. Let’s say you have a TON of groceries, and you really need ten or fifteen bags. Is someone really going to pay $10-15 for that amount of bags, even if they are going to be reused? I just think some people will become irritated with the extra purchase, as well as having to bring them in and out of the store every time they come.