I’ll admit, when I first heard about using cloth bags for grocery shopping, I was kind of stumped. A friend suggested it to me and I thought of every reason why not to – including wondering what people would think when they saw me doing so. Silly, I know. Finally, one day I caved and bought two bags at the local grocery store – at only 99 cents a piece, I figured I couldn’t go wrong.
Wow. I’ve totally changed my opinion – cloth bags are awesome. I figure that every time I do my weekly grocery shopping, I use at least 4 plastic bags. At 52 weeks in a year, that’s 208 plastic bags that I use… and that’s just one year! Now my 2 cloth bags manage to hold everything that my plastic bags used to hold, and then some! They are durable, I don’t have to worry about them breaking, and they’re convenient – my two bags and I get up to my third floor apartment with much less of a struggle than the plastic bags.
Yes, cloth bags are everywhere now, some expensive and some not so expensive. When I go grocery shopping now (as opposed to when I first started, a few months ago), I see more people using them, but they’re still in the minority – they make up maybe a fifth of the customers, as far as I can tell. I hope that they continue to become “popular” and that more people can appreciate them, like I do!
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Ooh, you've inspired me to do the math for how many bags a year we use! (Only math wasn't my best subject. ;)) Is there a ratio for how much a cloth bag holds vs. a plastic sack? At Wal Mart the other day the checker put a gallon of milk, a gallon of orange juice, a thing of cranapple juice, and something else all in one bag. I was impressed!
Cloth bags are the bomb. I not only use mine for grocery shopping but for... well, anything! I actually used one of the small red ones as a handbag and got TONS of comments on it.
The cloth bags are so much stronger and can hold so much more stuff in them. I had a hard time carrying one of them because it was so loaded with canned goods! I'm going to need to lift weights just to carry my groceries up three floors now!!
I really like these bags. it's an excellent alternative to the paper or plastic dilemma. I gave my students a bonus question of paper or plastic and only one out of 25 suggested neither. This suggests that this issue needs more publicity.
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