http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3190466Oh my.
Ms. Ed, the unappellated eohippus, the High Priestess of Moloch to the primitives:
Horse with no Name Donating Member (1000+ posts) Mon Apr-21-08 11:30 PM
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I was wondering when grocery stores would start wising up
Kudos to all the stores involved for giving away free canvas grocery bags. I hope it catches on.
http://www.temple-telegram.com/story/2008/04/21/48773
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H-E-B stores in Temple and Belton will hand out reusable shopping bags to anyone who brings five plastic bags to their stores on Earth Day, this Tuesday, between 3 and 7 p.m. The giveaway is part of a statewide Earth Day celebration in which the Texas-based grocer plans to give away 150,000 bags. They also expect to collect 750,000 plastic bags for recycling.
Austin-based Whole Foods will discontinue use of plastic bags at all their stores beginning on Earth Day. Checkout staff will bag their groceries in paper bags made from recycled materials for customers without reusable bags.
As of last November, large grocery stores in San Francisco can no longer use plastic bags to sack up their customers’ purchases, per a city ordinance.
The Chinese government has banned small and large stores alike from using the thin plastic bags beginning June 1.
I dunno.
Ms. Ed makes it sound as if only socially-conscious liberals do things like this.
I've used a cloth shopping bag for years, mostly because when grocery stores changed over from the sturdy reliable reusable paper bags to those damned plastic things, it was a nuisance.
Anyway.
orleans Donating Member (1000+ posts) Mon Apr-21-08 11:43 PM
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6. you'll start remembering--it starts becoming a habit after awhile
after i put the groceries away i stuff all my canvas bags into one big canvas bag and throw them by the back door. i see them on my way out the door and so even if i'm not going to the store i can just grab them and throw them in the car.
or you can put it on your shopping list: TAKE THE BAGS!! circle it. hopefully you'll glance at it before you leave the house--even to add that jar of raspberry jam to the list.
I don't know why primitives would have to remind themselves to take a bag.
This is the way franksolich thinks:
(a) oops, I need to get some groceries.
(b) do I need to get just a few items, or should I take the bag along?
That's all it takes, no stupid "reminders."
Of course, it's obvious by now that franksolich's cerebral-cells are more closely attached to each other, than the fewer scatterbrain cerebral-cells of the primitives.
tblue37 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Tue Apr-22-08 08:49 AM
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26. Mine are always in the back seat of my car, but I still forget to take them into the store most of the time.
WTF?
This is the way franksolich thinks:
(a) okay, I'm at the grocery store now.
(b) did I have to bring the bag along or not?
143tbone Donating Member (179 posts) Tue Apr-22-08 02:49 AM
Response to Reply #3
25. You'll get used to it.
Before long it becomes second nature. I put my canvas bag on the front door knob along with used egg cartons to be returned and plastic jugs to be filled with water. Then it goes in the front seat with me so it's hard to forget.
Oh man.
One wonders if the primitives have to write notes to each other reminding them to wipe their posteriors after sitting on the commode.
Warpy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Mon Apr-21-08 11:53 PM
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8. I'll be delighted when those ubiquitous flimsy plastic bags get reused until they pop, anything to keep them the hell out of my trees. Watching the damned things flap in the wind for 2 years before they finally get too shredded to be obvious is annoying.
I use canvas most places now. I keep them in the car all the time. I also have a string bag small enough to stuff into a handbag.
I love the nickel off I get every time I use them. I also love knowing that other people are seeing that nickel off and taking the hint.
Most of all, I love knowing that when I'm going to recycle the plastic ones, none of them will get away from me on a windy day and end up in the top of the tree in my front yard.
Nicole Donating Member (1000+ posts) Tue Apr-22-08 12:42 AM
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17. Donate them
I volunteer at the food bank. We always need bags. I wonder if Goodwill & other thrift stores need them as well?
As for projects, I use them to stuff other stuff. In fact I just stuffed my patio furniture cushions today. The cushions still look good but were getting too flat for comfort. So I stuffed them with wadded up bags & they are thicker now then when I bought them.
I stuff draft dodgers with them to get rid of the bags & save energy at the same time.
I use bags instead of packing peanuts when mailing gifts.
Sometimes a great mind and a lesser mind think alike; in this case, the greater mind has always found those damned things good for packing materials.
sfexpat2000 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Tue Apr-22-08 02:26 AM
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24. I designed one for our local mom n pop. Problem solved!
The greatest accomplishment, apparently, of Doug's ex-wife's life, one guesses.
