B.Y.O.Bag Project (A movement to save the environment one bag at a time)

I’ll do it tomorrow…but I think this is an important goal for me… CLEARLY

getting better at this! Need to make it an everyday thing though! and remember that if I go to OTHER store other than the grocery store.. I still need to grab the bags!

don’t know where the last two entries on this went…:(

I took the 43 Things Personality Quiz and found out I’m aHealthy Traveling Tree Hugger

I am in love with cloth bags.
I get them everywhere. Target, Meijer, Horrock’s…
If 43things made a reuseable bag, I’d probably buy it.
These are always in one of our car’s, ready to take on whatever monstrosity we plan on purchasing, or transporting not ripping like plastic and looking snazzier than paper.

gonna get them cleaned up and see if I can get back on track:)

I purchased over 10 bags for this goal and now I don’t even know where they are! I don’t know what keeps me from accomplishing this goal.. maybe because we are always switching vehicles.. maybe it is cause I shop soooo much and 10 bags a day really isn’t enough..maybe it is because when I go to the store I use the self check out lane and the bages weight throw off the scales and set the alarm ringing for the teller to come help me. I don’t know – I just have to find the bags now and see if I can try to get it together.

I have wanted to do this forever, but I couldn’t seem to remember to do it. Then one day, by chance, I discovered a plastic grocery bag in my coat pocket that I had absentmindedly stuffed there, so I handed it to the cashier and felt very “with it”.

Now, I try to remember to stuff the grocery bags back into my coat pockets and purse when I get home from the store. They hardly take any space in my pockets, and I have a lot of them from my former days as part of the problem.

I can’t seem to remember to bring my bags! It is funny… I do so much for the environment, even the really icky stuff like having a sawdust toilet lol but something so simple like remebering to bring 10 beautiful black cloth bags.. I am hopeless! :) I need to find a way to remember this little detail so I can get this goal completed and do my part;)

This past summer and this fall I’ve used my own bags! I even bought a new red bag that can roll up and hook onto any handbag so I never have to be without my own bag!

So one or two months more and I can cross this off my list :)

Be careful when you go to WM and ask to use your canvas bags, if they have already put something into a plastic bag they will just THROW THE BAG AWAY! I laugh every time… and then tell them to get it out of the trash.

Seriously?