I used to take those brown paper bags at home and turn them into bookcovers for school books!
Posted on 08/24/2018 8:01:01 AM PDT by oldvirginian
I dont have any problem with this. I bring a couple of heavy cloth grocery bags with me for shopping. It took a few months to remember to dig them out of the trunk, but honestly, they are great bags. They hold a huge amount, never rip, and the handles never tear off.
Americans have gotten used to causing an obscene amount of waste, mostly out of laziness. I have no problem toting my heavy duty grocery bags into a store and not wasting paper or plastic bags every trip.
This is one thing the liberals have right. They just go about it all wrong.
Those Snap Baskets are pretty nifty:
https://www.amazon.com/s?url=search-alias%3Dtools&field-keywords=CleverMade+30L+SnapBasket
Not to mention, the manufacturing process for paper bags is nastier and more polluting to the environment than making plastic bags.
Opening it isn’t the problem. Picking it up and pouring a drink is a little different. When I was in school, we got the little glass ones with the foil top that literally cost (subsidized I’m sure) two cents. The vending machine down the street had quart cartons with the flat top for 15 cents. That’s what we did if we needed milk on a Sunday or in the morning before the stores opened.
I would take all the old packaging and the increased prices, but only if we got EVERYTHING from the era, too, and dropped a lot more that we have in this era.
>>>“Which plastic Bags, the ones all the Groceries are put in at the Check stand or the ones that come off a roll that people use in the Vegetable and Meat Departments?”
The ones at the checkout.
I imagine the plastic rolls will be available. They were using them back in the 60’s.<<<
Sounds like Plastic Bag discrimination to me. The “White” Plastic Bags are out while the “Clear” Plastic Bags get to stay.
“I would take all the old packaging and the increased prices, but only if we got EVERYTHING from the era, too, and dropped a lot more that we have in this era.”
I am in TOTAL agreement on that point.:-)
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I used to take those brown paper bags at home and turn them into bookcovers for school books!
The trees they need to make paper bags have been burning for 10 years. Don’t know what they will use.
Alas..... times change
Plastic is less expensive than paper and for all but the rabid enviroweanies, really make no difference.
The bags are free.
“Plastic is the most efficient storage medium for most things. Arew we going back to glass or waxed cardboard milk bottles? Aluminum and glass only for soda and water? Juice coming in big cans that require a can opener to punch a hole? Hamburger meat wrapped in butcher paper?”
My mom would save the string from the packages of meat, roll it into balls, and always have string on hand. Different times.
IF they are NOT going to provide me with suitable bags to take home my purchases, I will carry a handful of kitchen trash bags & make them pack those.
I don’t mind a few paper bags, but ice cream? Meats? other items need a plastic bag to keep them from leaking into other items.
As it is, I live no closer than 22 miles to a Wal-Mart & 24 miles to Smiths—a Kroger affiliate. I have at least 1 cooler in the car to bring groceries home.
BUT..WE SAVED A TREE!!”””
So we could burn them up in over 4 million acres of fire.
My concern is the folks who use those reusable shopping bags without cleaning them regularly and thoroughly.
IF Safeway told me to BUY a paper bag, I would tell them to put everything back onto their shelves.
Dude, just reuse a 45 gallon Hefty plastic bag every time! That’d be funny!
IF they last for 2 washings, you are very lucky.
Those bags are not built for long time use.
I will carry kitchen trash bags into the store & use those. I will NOT pay for a paper bag.
Push me on the issue, and I will tell you to put everything I had in my cart back onto the shelf. Since I shop only once a month, I can easily fill the cart.
Just take the shopping cart home.
So bring plastic bags from Walmart with you next time! Man I’d love to see the look on people’s faces if you did that!
You have a choice. You either bring your own bag and if you forgot then you have the option of buying a paper bag (which is recyclable) or you can not bag anything and use the cart to take your loose purchases out to your car and dump them there.
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