Bring your canvas bags...

I started last year... first with just one bag (purchased at the food conspiracy co-op, around $10), then adding another a little while later (purchased from Tucson CSA, also about $10, but a lot flimsier, don't recommend this one), then, a little while later adding on with one from Sunflower market (about $6), which I liked so much I went back and got another so I would have two... only to be offered money for one of them at Safeway - the lady had loved hers, lost it, and Sunflower stopped stocking them for a while. I let her buy mine off me, then I promptly went and bought a replacement (Sunflower is stocking them again, last time I went).
I love my four canvas bags, and have finally gotten to where it is second nature to take them into stores with me. I think I will try to make my next bag (perhaps a longer-handled variation of this pattern ). I want to have enough that even my large shopping trips will all fit into my canvas bags. A good goal.
Some good places to get canvas bags online: resusablebags.com and ecobags.com
For further reading about 'bringing your own bag' see here and here

and for your viewing pleasure...


(this little ditty has been going round and round my head ever since I saw it. now I am passing it on to you. you can thank me later)

Paper or plastic? Go Canvas!