About five years ago, I moved to a Delightful European Country, and was surprised to discover that my local supermarket intended to charge me for plastic grocery bags. \u00a0They were very nice, study, thick plastic bags, but perhaps not quite worth the regular fee. I popped next door to a bag shop and bought some reusable bags \u2013 you know the ones: nylon bag, stuffs in a little pouch, tucks in your handbag.<\/p>\n
That purchase was not my wisest. I promptly lost the little pouches, so the bags ended up overtaking my handbag. The bags were on the small side, but the straps were skinny, so even their little load dug into my shoulders for the few hundred metres walk to my Tiny European Apartment. It took me a few months, but I eventually upgraded to Envirosax.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ll admit, I was first drawn to Envirosax because they\u2019re just so pretty. They come in all sorts of beautiful patterns. The fact that they\u2019re definitely a Cool Tool is seriously just a nice bonus.<\/p>\n
Envirosax are nice and large (the manufacturers claim they hold two plastic bags worth, and my experience backs this up) but fold up nice and small. The straps are thick, so they\u2019re very comfortable to use for long periods. They\u2019re corralled by an attached strap, which can\u2019t be lost like a separate pouch (even if neatly folding and strapping them can be a little tiresome). They\u2019re very sturdy and very strong \u2013 I load them up regularly and even my five year old ones still look pristine. They\u2019re also really pretty.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve subsequently moved on to A Land of Free Grocery Bags, but I still swear by Envirosax. I always have two tucked in my handbag, which helps me decline plastic bags at most stores. (Yes, environment-schmironment, but mostly it\u2019s because my plastic bag cupboard is perpetually overflowing.) I always have them with me when I travel \u2013 they\u2019re great for a beach trip, bakery run, unexpected suitcase blow-out or emergency carry-on. \u00a0I\u2019ve probably given a dozen as gifts. And they\u2019re really pretty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Attractive reusable grocery bags<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6957"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6957"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7007,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6957\/revisions\/7007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}