What shopping bags do you use?

bramble1

I've got some heavy duty sainsburys/watirose hessian type bags that we've inherited over the years, I try to remember to take these with me. But we use plastic bags alot!

I also have one of those rediculously huge handbags which easily fit an essentials shop in them ( i think i could actually fit inside my bag!)

dibuzz

Safeway used to do the plastic boxes too, I still have a couple of them but they are used for general storage now. At the time they also had the hand held scanners so you could scan your shopping as you went round, great for keeping an eye on your spending but they stopped doing that too.

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My late Mum would rather have left the house 'knickerless' than go out without her stringbag.back then in the days of rationing you always took a bag with you 'just in case' there was something to be had at the shops.I spend most of my childhood being plonked in a queue for someting whilst she went off to queue for something else :) I rarely had a clue what I was queueing for I was just put there to keep her place :)I now shop with my car (Mum would be spinning in her grave at the expence )and I always have several shopping bags in the boot.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 and my food purse of £25.00 per week means I usually have a bit left over at the end of the week to bung in the savings account for next years holiday

miss_corerupted

our local shops all have signs up saying the its a min of 10p a bag hmmmmm.

I just have a collection of random reuseable bags given away free over the last few years. Almost every stand I went to at the Royal Welsh Show was giving bags away a few years ago. I have one that has a hard flat bottom to it which is good for milk etc. I'm getting better at remembering the bags as we shop more in Aldi's now

I live in south wales (blackwood)

Flibsey

barneydee wrote: »

Do any of you remeber the blue box's with orange handles that mr Sainsbugs had about 15 or so years ago, at the time they had trollies that the box's fittied into I think at the time they where quite expensive about £ 5 a box, well I work for mr S and some customers still use these box's even though we do not have the trollies they fitted into.To me that was money well spent having lasted all these years, they are also much easier to pack and much easier to lift in and out the car and they have other use when not being used for shopping i know I would use these if they brought them back

Dee

yes! my mum still has some! she uses them as boot boxes and storage.

Willowx

Another recommendation for onya bags, I use a combination of their different types, their drinks bottles are good as well.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

even though i am a monkey for forgetting to take bags. When hubby goes he allways tries to get a cardboard box, but i should imagine in the first few weeks of hte levy coming in, I think there might be a shortage of boxes at the check outs.....lol...

W hat i want to know is, how does the government know how many carrier bags the shop has? or will the levy be done at the point of ordering the bags?

there is also still a bit of confusion on the carrier bag levy with retailers

http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/2011/08/31/confusion-reigns-over-5p-levy-on-carrier-bags-for-welsh-retailers-91466-29333398/


Just a thought, I know this is regional, but it might be worth Martin mentioning it his weekly emails etc... as at the end of the day it is all about saving money... so maybe he could pre-warn people about starting to carry bags with them etc... OR maybe there is a loophole when it comes to buying meat at the supermarket you get a free carrier bag etc


edit... now after reading the above article i am confused now..... I do a certain type of event/sale and i use paper handled bags have i still got to pay the 5p levey per bag to a charity?

what if i used secondhand plastic bags would i still have to pay a 5p levey for giving a secondhand plastic bag to someone to put an item in they just bought from me?

Eenymeeny

Just a little warning to anyone buying 'longlife-type' bags...try them for size! I bought one recently from a well known pharmacy chain. It trails on the ground when I put things in it and the handles aren't big enough for me to use it over my shoulder. Maybe I'm just a funny size...:o:rotfl:

Spendless

Re-usable bags. My fav for grocery shopping are the hessian ones from Tesco, that's already been mentioned. I find them larger and sturdier than the other similar ones from other supermarkets. A close second is the same style but in blue also from Tesco. Also if you are holidaying in Europe, anywhere they have been charging for carrier bags for a while, it might be worth buying something there. I have a very stong large bag that I bought at the checkouts at the supermarket in Citie D'Europe in Calias

For 'Satuday day-time' shopping, I like Primark's canvas bags, which has straps long enough to go over the shoulder.

Last week I bought a bag for life from Sports direct, cos I was buying 1 of each of everything from their store to kit out my son for Secondary school it seemed! The bag is large and roomy and the handle is sort of 'padded'. It would definately do for the bulky type of shopping you tend to do for Christmas presents.

I also keep a zipped up pouch that turns into a bag in my main everday day. Mine came free with a chinese meal!

The string bags so many people are mentioning. I bought one a few years ago from M & S. No idea if they still do them. Otherwise look amongst the baby isle as I always had something along those lines on my pushchair when my kids were small.

Now just wear to stash all these re-usable bags. I'm still stumped on that. :rotfl:

TrashyBook

TrashyBook wrote: »

I think I have a crochet pattern for a net bag that folds into a pouch. Could probably dig it out and scan it if it would be any use to you?

OK, I've found the pattern, and hopefully uploaded it to my website, in both .doc and .pdf formats.

http: // www . ac23 . com / misc /

If this doesn't work, please let me know and I'll tinker with it :-)

Hope it comes in useful for someone!

(Sorry, still not enough posts to do links yet... hopefully you can work it out!)