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Downsizer bags should be:

A big strong bag, with a gusset able to hold a lot of shopping.

19%

[ 6 ]

A cotton bag, of carrier bag dimensions. The sort of bag you can alway have tucked away in your coat pocket.

80%

[ 25 ]

Total Votes : 31

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Gertie

Joined: 08 Jan 2005
Posts: 1638
Location: Yorkshire

Posted: Tue Oct 04, 05 6:19 am Post subject:
I voted for the small, carrier bag type, primarily because if I was humping about a big bag full of shopping I would expect Lundy to chauffeur me home!

Mrs Fiddlesticks

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
Posts: 10460

Posted: Tue Oct 04, 05 7:25 am Post subject:

I've voted for the foldable sort as thats what I find most useful. I generally take a basket shopping and a couple of cotton fold up bags inside it which I then use instead of carriers. I like to have one in the car and one in pocket as then I'm prepared and can easily say no to a carrier. I also like them as project bags for craft things to keep the relevant bits altogether whilst working on them. Can't have enough cotton bags IMHO!

Northern_Lad

Joined: 13 Dec 2004
Posts: 14210
Location: Somewhere

Posted: Tue Oct 04, 05 7:53 am Post subject:
Any reason both can't be done? I can see myself using both in different times. What would be the large one made of, if the small one's cotton? There is the problem, though, that if I always carried a cotton bag with me that I'd never get a carrier bag again and need to go out and buy bin bags.

Mrs Fiddlesticks

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
Posts: 10460

Posted: Tue Oct 04, 05 8:04 am Post subject:

Northern_Lad wrote:

There is the problem, though, that if I always carried a cotton bag with me that I'd never get a carrier bag again and need to go out and buy bin bags.

We were discussing this point at the picnic. I've very few carriers left now, but I need to line the kitchen bin with something!

jema
Downsizer Moderator

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 28235
Location: escaped from Swindon

Posted: Tue Oct 04, 05 8:07 am Post subject:

Fiddlesticks Julie wrote:

Northern_Lad wrote:

There is the problem, though, that if I always carried a cotton bag with me that I'd never get a carrier bag again and need to go out and buy bin bags.

We were discussing this point at the picnic. I've very few carriers left now, but I need to line the kitchen bin with something!

Carriers have there uses. I wouldn't forage for Elderberries with a cotton bag!

Mrs Fiddlesticks

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
Posts: 10460

Posted: Tue Oct 04, 05 11:19 am Post subject:

jema wrote:

Fiddlesticks Julie wrote:

Northern_Lad wrote:

There is the problem, though, that if I always carried a cotton bag with me that I'd never get a carrier bag again and need to go out and buy bin bags.

We were discussing this point at the picnic. I've very few carriers left now, but I need to line the kitchen bin with something!

Carriers have there uses. I wouldn't forage for Elderberries with a cotton bag!

me neither, I used a plastic box!

Helen_A

Joined: 26 Jan 2005
Posts: 1548
Location: MK, Bucks.

Posted: Tue Oct 04, 05 11:33 am Post subject:

Hmmm - well re: bags for bins isn't that what neighbours are for?

TBH I'm hopeless for remembering to take cotton bags out, but very good at donating on to the local wholefood shop all the plastic ones that don't end up as bin bags, thus ensuring that they are getting at least another use or two (there are a couple of selfridges plastic bags that have been back and forth to that shop over a dozen times each now, cos the shop is keeping an eye on them, lol).

If a bag does get remembered it inevitably ends up awith all sorts of other things in it than shopping... nappies, magazone/book, flannel, wet bag.... the general detritus of havind children...)

Hmmm - could go for one for the library run though... it would get lots of use that way and be seen far and wide

Helen_A

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