Well, Leeanne got a whole bunch of free reusable shopping bags as part of promotions that various grocery stores were running, but we always had a lot of trouble remembering to bring them with us when it was time to shop.  Didn't really care, anyway.  I mean, we reuse our shopping bags to keep us from buying new plastic trash bags, so it's ok, right?

We found about 100 plastic shopping bags under the sink when we moved into the new place, and they are all clean and usable (since we'll just put trash in them anyway), so I thought to myself, "Self, why the hell would you need to get that many bags?"  I decided right then to make an effort to do some Green shopping and I went and collected all our reusable bags and put them in the back of the truck so we WOULDN'T forget them.

Fast forward to our next shopping trip.  We went to the local Food Lion, and voila, like magic, there were our fancy bags waiting for us.  We brought them in, piled the groceries up inside (boy are they strong!) and brought all our groceries home without using ANY bags, paper or plastic.  I sure was smug.  Of course, to get the groceries inside, you have to bring the BAGS inside.  And now I'm back at square one with the bags inside and me forgetting to put them in the truck.

When the ad said "saving the planet, one bag at a time" I didn't know it would be literally ONE bag at a time.