Win 4 Reusable Chico Bags!
We love reusable shopping bags, but sometimes, it’s hard to remember to take them into the store. I’ve gotten much better about bringing my bags into the grocery store (I only have to run out to the car about once every two months now from the checkout line), but remembering my bags at other stores is a challenge. I usually walk out with my arms full of merchandise and fill my bags at the car.
I really like ChicoBags for shopping at stores, not just the natural food store. They sling over my shoulder (and my kids’ shoulders) easily and ball up nicely to fit inside my purse. Reusable bags are such a simple step we can all take to reduce our carbon footprint, but why is it so hard to remember to use them?
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Using ChicoBag’s reusable tote bags reduces waste because they are long lasting and promote reuse. ChicoBag will even recycle your reusable bags when you are done with them. What makes ChicoBags better than many other reusable grocery bags is the compact pouch that is sewn into the seam on the interior of the tote bag. ChicoBags make it easy to carry a reusable shopping tote at all times. Single-use paper and plastic bags are harmful to the environment and use up 32% of landfill space because they can take hundreds of years to decompose. Americans use between 300 and 700 plastic bags per person each year, on average. 100 billion plastic shopping bags are used annually in the United States.
Thanks to Two Knobby Tires, we are giving away four Chico reusable bags to one lucky Eco Child’s Play reader. To enter, simply leave a comment to this post explaining your strategy for remembering to bring your reusuable bags into the store. The winner will be selected randomly from the comments on Wednesday, February 25, 2009. Good luck, and don’t forget those bags!
I hang mine on the doorknob to the garage and take then out next time. Once I got that habit down, it still took months to remember to take them in the store from the car! I also keep a bag in my backpack for quick shops.
like carrie I put by the door or ontop of my purse..I also have them in the car and the mail out bin
After I unload my bags, I make sure to put them back in my car so they are always there. When I head out to the store, I put them on the front passenger seat so I can see them and I usually don’t forget them.
I keep them in my briefcase along with the club cards that everywhere seems to have these days. Since they come with carabiners they’re easy to hook all to one keyring.
I carry two bags in my purse/bag at all time. For grocery shopping, I have a larger stash, that must be fetched from the trunk. I’ve had great success with always carrying the two bags.
I keep bags on the hook by our front door, a stretch/string bag in my handbag, and extras in the little cubbies in the car doors. We still forget sometimes and that means hubs gets to make a mad dash to the car while I check out! Have small bags to keep in handbags/glove compartments would be awesome!
I keep my bags in the front seat of my car, that way they are alway visible and easy to grab when heading into a store.
My strategy to remember them is I leave them hanging right on our coat hook by the front door. I absolutely love using them, not only for the environmental impact of not using plastic and paper, but because they hold a lot more than plastic and paper. I’d love to win! I have a big family, buy a lot of groceries.
i have two strategies. One, I use my chico bag from my purse to make a purchase, empty it into a larger bag in the car and stuff it back into my purse for the next errand.
Two, when I bring stuff into the house in my chico bag, I empty it and then throw the bag to the floor in front of my door, so when I next go outside, the bags all return to the car.
I have one of those huge purses and you’ll always find reusable bags in there. Unless my dog finds them and starts eating them.