What shopping bags do you use?

JustKeepSwimming_2

I love my shopping trolley & have been using it for years, although when I started I did get some flack from my friends for being an "old maid". :rotfl: I bought it from Ikea when you couldn't get funky trolleys anywhere - now there are gazillions to choose from. It certainly helps my back, & as I don't drive its fine on the bus (as long as you hold onto it so it doesn't go round the corners on its own). Its amazing how much you can get in one!

For smaller shops I use the small blue Ikea bags - they are roomy & the straps dont cut into your shoulder. Also easy to clean when you have a spillage...

I inherited 3 shopping bags that my Great Aunt had used for many years - they are a hideous nylon type fabric but are amazingly indestructable & I can imagine them still going strong if my DD uses them.

I have 3 of the old Sainsbury's blue boxes that I use for general storage which are great - I'd still be using them for shopping if I still drove as they were so easy to use.

JackieO wrote: »

But then I do my best to avoid shops if I can and only go there if I really have run out of something and can't adapt something else.I keep a 'Must Buy ' list by the kettle and when there are at least 6 things on it then I may pop to the shop but I only take enough cash to cover what I'm buying that way I cut back on my food shopping .Great way to save cash

What a brilliant idea - I shall start doing this too (although I forsee a great deal of time being spent looking for the list when I'm in the shop as I always leave them behind).

zippychick

we do have an older OS Bags thread

I will merge this later

ZIp

Barneysmom

This is quite old, but I might have a go

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-450744/Knit-shopping-bag.html

SailorSam

Most of the time i'll walk to the shops and use a rucksack, much easier to carry things. If i'm getting anything heavy i'll go in the car and have strong 'Farm Foods' bags in the boot.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Barneysmom wrote: »

This is quite old, but I might have a go

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-450744/Knit-shopping-bag.html

what the problem is with these, most of the carrier bags now are bio-degradable, so your knitted plastic bag will end up crummbling away

Lemanie_2

Hi all, I recently got some of these : http://www.footprintbag.com/. They are brilliant, if not a little pricey! I used to use Mr T's hessian ones but they are quite big to store in the car, whereas these are so neat and compact. I love that they were designed by two mums in Yorkshire when their shops started charging for bags.

MessyTessie

I have a 'bag of bags' which I get out when I do my weekly shop or I know I'm getting a lot from Costco, other than that I have two bag for life bags which I got given free somewhere folded up in my handbag with a elastic band around them. I also have another couple in my car door pocket just in case I pop in somewhere. But at least once a week I get my trolley out, it's fab, only last week I got 16 pints of milk in it with lots of fruit and veg from Lidl and it wasn't hard at all to get it home. I bought it after the kids grew out of the pushchair from IKEA and it's holds so much I don't care how I look to other people.

Barneysmom

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

what the problem is with these, most of the carrier bags now are bio-degradable, so your knitted plastic bag will end up crummbling away

Haha that's typical of me isn't it? :rotfl:

I've just had a Google and found it takes anything from 2 to 100,000 years to decompose! Wow.
Most sites say 20-1000 years??

chanie

I can't remember where I heard about this (so I'm not taking credit for it) but I saw somebody making bags out of vest tops. You basically sew the bottom and use the straps as shoulders. I have a couple of vest tops I bought from Next which went baggy after a couple of washes, so I think I might try and make a bag out of those (I'm thinking it would be a good way of carrying my fruit and veg.

adelight

I like the hessian ones with a strap long enough to wear as a handbag that aren't too big ie i can't over load it and kill my back!

Thing is, I really like plastic carrier bags to use in the bin! We have a small bin we take out often (hate the stink of bin bags sitting around).