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You get used to that I guess. As far as I know we've always had to pay for bag here at grocery stores, plastic bags though and they tend to cost 15-25c. They're more of an oh **** I need something but don't have a bag with me/I forgot to bring a bag type of thing.

It's not that they're trying to save money, it's that the boxes hold more and are sturdier than the bags.

That's why you spend €2 or so on one of these and bring it with you from then on. Much sturdier than a cardboard box, plastic bags or paper bags.

There's a trade show I go to every year. For the last 5 years or so, one companies 'freebie' has been a reusable bag. It's a good one. It folds up into a little pouch thingy. I have at least 4 in my car. I also have various other non disposable bags - mostly freebies. They're handy. I'm never without one. I even have a one that is just for carrying wine or other bottled stuff (I don't get nearly enough use out of it).

It took awhile to get myself into the habit of bringing them into the stores, but I got down. Now if I go into a store without a bag or two in my hands I feel empty.

Edit - Back when I was doing fieldwork, I had to assist with landfill issues a couple times. Municipal landfills are absolutely silly with grocery store bags. They hang in the surrounding trees, they float around in the air, the stick on the off-gassing piping, etc etc. Witnessing that helped me become a better bagger.

Edited, Mar 5th 2013 5:42pm by Elinda

I suppose the correct response would be a scolding for using disposable diapers, but cleaning poopy cloth diapers is one of the grossest things on earth.

I use up my accumulation of plastic bags each year at Christmas time as packing material. Also each jar of homemade gooey stuff gets wrapped into it's own bag before traveling.

I have a couple reusable bags, but my problem is I use them and take them inside then continuously forget to put them back in my car. It's annoying. The local Save-A-Lot / FoodLand offers you 5 cents or Hawaiian Air miles every time you bring your bag back in, which is nice, but not that much of an incentive.

Obviously you didn't clean the poopy diapers or you'd never make the claim that it wasn't really that tough. Your washing machine could have a centrifuge cycle and it wouldn't change the fact that you can't put blobs of poo into the washing machine.

It's the pre-removal of solids from the diaper that creates the heavy exposure scenarios.

From coupons to ****-ons.

I see no shame in wanting to save money. Just have to watch you don't go buy things you don't need/want just because your saving .50 cents on them. We have a local chain called Krogers and they about once a quarter send out coupons based off the things you purchase with your club card. They usually give 2 or 3 coupons that are for free box of ceral/lunch meat that we buy all the time, the other coupons are usually .75 cents to $1.00 off items we buy all the time. You know your getting old when this is exciting.