Plastic bags ?

[thenry]

I have been shoving my emptied plastic bags (from Co-op,Tescos, Asda etc.) to the right hand side of my undersink cupboard for many years. There must be thousands in there and they keep going in with no resistance. I have lost a tool-box, an Iron and a shoe-polishing kit recently and so will clean the bloody cupboard out on Sunday ? Do you have a bag for life or are you similarly plagued with the one-offs ?

[jamesnan]

Take them to the local charity shop, they will be only too delighted to have them, Personally I use a cloth shopping bag, and only the plastic ones if we have milk, which usually gets wet on the outside with condensation.

[joggerjayne]

//they keep going in with no resistance//

I suppose you've considered the possibility, thenry, that the back of the cupboard is missing, and they have all been falling out the other side?

[EcclesCake]

I have a selection of bags that use for my shopping. I try not to use carrier bags, quite unecessary IMHO.

[maggiebee]

Personally hate plastic bags and always use the "bag for life" type. If I had my way I would charge a £2 each for plastic bags at the checkout - maybe then people would start to carry their own bags with them. You will see from this that I'm really just a grumpy old git with a bee in my bonnet about bags!!♥

[wiltsman]

Like a lot of people I would think, I use mine in my under worktop waste bin. So I rarely have a build-up of plastic bags.

[thenry]

I notice my heating bills have been going down JJ. Maybe I'm insulating through the cavity wall ?

[DaisyNonna]

Beware the bio-degradable bags. You will end up with a cupboard full of plastic flakes.Fed up of cashiers who disregard my statement that I have my own bag.

[joggerjayne]

Things that I NEVER remember to take to the shops.

In reverse order ...

5. Loyalty cards from coffee shops ... I must have dozens of half filled cards ... I could drink free coffee for a year if I consolidated them all.

4. My shopping list ... I'm always chaining up my bike at the supermarket when I remember that it's on the fridge door.

3. Vouchers of any sort ... don't know why I even bother keeping them, frankly.

2. Things that were a bit dodgy and that I was going to return ... by the time I remember them, they are so old that they would have gone off anyway.

1. Reusable carrier bags ... I've bought loads of those "bag for life" type of things, and I've never, ever remembered to take one shopping with me.

[thenry]

LOL ! I never remember to take a bag ! That's why I got this goddam problem !

[sherrardk]

I have a drawer full of bags for life, never remember to take them with me. One of my big peeves is when the person on the till asks if I want bags - NO, I'll carry a weeks worth of shopping for seven people home in my bloody pockets!!! (Know I should take my own bags, it is about the only thing I can never remember to do.)

[DaisyNonna]

Try putting a notice on the inside of the front door saying BAG.

[joggerjayne]

Daisy ... after a while, you'd get used to the notice being there, and pay no attention to it.

[flobadob]

In Ireland there is a charge of 22c per plastic bag that you take from any shop. It is to encourage reusing bags and to help the environment supposedly. Damned Green Party.

[thenry]

Hey Daisy - i got OCD - that would never work !

[DaisyNonna]

JJ Works for me. Cannot walk past the written word without reading it.

[Canary42]

Last time I used a paid-for "bag for life" the thing split right open the first time I re-used it - so under the conditions of sale the store replaced it free of charge of course - but what's the point, I'm still using as many bags as before.

[quinie]

Hi,thenry,I second jamesnan's suggestion to take them to a charity shop. I help out in one and can assure you they'll welcome you with open arms . A request though-have them neatly folded and don't take them ALL in at once. Happy cleaning out on Sunday-hope you find the lost items esp the iron!!

[thenry]

Many thanks Quinie. I gotta fold all the bags ? We'll talk (much) later !

[Hopkirk]

I put my sack of bags for life on the checkout, and ostentatiously open one up.

Still the cashier asks if I need bags.

They should all go to Specsavers.

[hc4361]

I will pay for carrier bags when:
Supermarkets stop wrapping cucumbers, peppers, mushrooms, swede, cauliflower, lettuce, apples, oranges, pears and all other fruit and veg in plastic shrink wrap, plastic bags and/or moulded plastic boxes. I bought a pack of 4 large open cup mushrooms the other day. They were carefully packaged in a specially designed plastic container, with a circle for each mushroom and then the whole thing was shrink wrapped.

Bin bags are free. My kitchen bin is designed to use carrier bags. Pointless using a bag for life and buying kitchen bin bags.

Fresh meat isn't sold on a polystyrene tray with a strange plastic thing between the tray and the meat and the whole thing shrink wrapped in plastic.

Frozen food such as salmon fillets isn't sold in a big polythene bag with each fillet shrink wrapped in its own plastic bag;

The plastic in my pack of jaffa cakes doesn't weigh more than the jaffa cakes.

They stop selling individual portions of salad in a plastic tub with its own plastic knife and fork.

They stop selling bin bags wrapped in plastic.

They stop selling magazines shrink wrapped in plastic.

They stop selling fresh cream cakes in plastic boxes.

The list is never ending. Carrier bags are the least of the problem.