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If you’re driving, just load it into your cart, then load it into your car, then load it into your bag, and take it inside. If you’re taking a bike or the bus, I’m sorry about your 37 reusable bags.
This is what I do 99% of the time because even when I do remember to put them back into the trunk after using them, I never remember to bring them into the store.
Ideas for people like us:
Same store evertim? “Siri remind me bags when I arrive at $nameOfStore”
Same day/time evertim? Set alarm
Looks like your ‘y’ key isn’t working. Might wanna look into it.
I wonder if it would help if I taped a bag with my name on it under the seat on each bus I could conceivably take to different grocery stores? But then I’d have to remember to take the bag out from under the seat 😆
But seriously, I do have a bag in my backpack, but I’m not always wearing my backpack 🤦🏻
You would assuredly be investigated for drug running. Why not tie a plastic bag to your keychain? Compressed into a knot, it takes up fairly little space.
I take bike/bus…I bring reusable bags. =/
In England we call them “bags for life” which I imagine is because they will just stay around forever and multiply because you keep forgetting them.
Keep the bags, or at least a few, in your car.
My problem is remembering to bring them back to my car.
My system is that after I unpack the shopping at home, I leave the bag beside the front door. Then next time I go outside I see it like “Oh yeah, the bag!” and put it in the car.
Works for me.
Yaa or carabiner (at least) one to car keys as the reminder - when they don’t fit in your pocket that can be the sign to grab them all and bring to car
I end up with a pile of bags by my door that “I’ll pick up next time.”
But I keep forgetting where I parked my car with the bags in it! So I just buy another one. I am deeply in debt…
I have a great system where I load up a lot of bags into my car so I basically always have access to reusable bags when I drive to the store. And then I promptly forget the bags in the car when I shop and end up with freaking single use plastic anyways.
I just throw it all in my car and transfer it to bags when I get home.
Too real
Get a foldable bag that you can stuff in your main carryon (purse, backpack, etc) in the event you forget
It’s a good backup. Just gotta put it back once you unload everything or else you forget about it
Just gotta put it back once you unload everything or else you forget about it
Therein lies the problem
I usually forget the big bags I have because I say I’ll put it back in the car tomorrow and that ends up being like next week, but the small foldable ones I have always go in and out of my fanny pack immediately, mostly cause if im unloading groceries I still have my fanny pack on and the act of folding it reminds me to put it back
No, no, I don’t think you understand. These already make up 20 of the ones I forgot at home. The problem isn’t not having enough bags.
I just make sure i have bags in everything: my fanny pack, my work backpack, and my car. My car has like 3-5 at the very least, so I use one and forget about it, at least I have some more. I’ll probably even add one in my wallet just in case. Redundancy is my solution to being forgetful
Problem is I don’t generally like to walk around with a backpack or purse unless I’m traveling or spending a very long day away from home.
Yea thats the one problem. You could get a clipon for your keychain but it feels bulky imo
Curse of ADHD.
Only way I’ve found around it is to throw a few bags right back in the car after unloading.
None of that, “I’ll do it in a few minutes, I won’t forget” nonsense. I absolutely will forget. I can set an alarm for 10 minutes, but then I’m doing something else already and I’ll silence it, thinking “oh yeah, I almost forgot! I’ll do that just as soon as I’m done doing…”
Nope. Bring groceries inside. Go pee. Unload groceries. Return bags to car. If I follow those steps, I’ll remember lol
Get a notes app on your phone and then get in the habit of checking it and using it.
It is hard at first but now I use it a lot
Me putting 6 (3 more than I’m sure I’ll need) in my backpack (which is storage overkill now) and then since I’m like a primitive creature or something where if I don’t see it it doesn’t exist, I forget that I have the bags after checking out.
Speaking of forgetful, don’t forget to run those bags through the wash every now and then.
Those things will harbor some nasty bacteria if you let them.
Huh I actually never considered that, thanks! I’ll chuck it in the machine next time I wash my dog’s harness
Good call
When grocery stores were fighting the California bag ban, they used that argument to claim disposable bag bans hurt the poor. Who would have thunk you could just wash them?
when you inevitably accrue a metric fuck-ton of these please remember that a lot of charity shops (at least the ones in the UK) are grateful for them
I get boxes from work and just keep a couple in the back of my truck, also keeps my groceries from sliding around the bed. Get boxes when you can their great, I’m keeping my eyes out for a roadside milk crate to replace them though.
You want forgetful? My gf and I keep a whole bag of bags in the trunk of our car. Every single time we go shopping, we forget to grab them, buy one in the store, and then add it to the bags in the trunk. It’s a viscous cycle.
You definitely need to do something about it if the bags are starting to melt
I had to read this twice, think about it for 20 minutes, then read my comment again. I’m leaving it.
Try to dilute them with other types of containers, it might help.
When I’m done unloading at home, I hang them on the doorknob so I remember them next time I leave.
