fedward, tumbling

How [not] to [not] consume

tiffanyb:

I don’t remember a reusable bag every time I stop at the store on the way home from work (Virginia doesn’t yet have a bag tax, but we’re on the verge of moving into the District), but when I do, I always ask myself why I don’t make more of an effort. If I’m buying heavy stuff, I’d much rather carry it in a reusable bag, which holds more- I hate running back out to the car for a second round of bags! - and does so with much sturdier handles that I can frequently put over my shoulder instead of letting strained plastic cut into my palms.

We started out with two bags, and bought a third when we stopped by the Giant without one.  Before we moved we generally shopped while we were already out in the car anyway, and we tried to keep empty bags in the trunk.  Our memory issue wasn’t so much remembering to take the bags at all, but remembering to put them back in the trunk after emptying them (or, more often, the next time one of us used the car). I started to hang the empty bags on the doorknob after we forgot them a few too many times, but the system worked pretty well.  With the Giant on - or only one block off - our route to nearly anywhere we went by car, and with at least one bag in the trunk (most of the time), we were prepared for almost all our grocery trips.

Of course now we’ve gotten caught at Giant without bags because we always walk to Safeway. I used an IKEA bag we had in the trunk, but those are too large to use regularly.