Do You Keep Your Fancy Paper Shopping Bags?
I know I do!
GirlInPink
10 years
In high school all the girls were obsessed with the Abercrombie & Fitch big bags... even if you only bought a t-shirt you had to ask for the big bag! The guy models were pretty hot on them too...
loveny21
10 years
omg i have so many bags in my apartment right now. it's out of control! i am so glad to know i am not alone. hehe.
Wicked
10 years
Of course! My mom and sister use them as their "lunch pails."
grys
10 years
i´m guilty of having a huge collection of fancy bags and gift boxes
Daisy6264
10 years
:ROTFL: yes I'm bad about keeping them.
JT13
10 years
I have no idea why I do this! There are tons of bag shoved in my closet because I think I'll use them at some point, but they never get used! Now I think I'm going to try to get rid of them :(
sparklemeetspop
10 years
*presents
sparklemeetspop
10 years
I used to put the pretty ones up on my wall or something, but I don't care anymore. I only save them to transport present and potluck food.
the-makeup-blogette
10 years
yup i like to collect and sometimes i re-use them, esp if they are solid ones...
herhighnessness
10 years
krEnElk I did exactly the same thing in highscool too! I affixed them all to my ceiling.
JKe895
10 years
I do sometimes but then re-use them for gifts or other sorts and other times I just eventually get rid of them.
Mme-Hart
10 years
Naaah, they get such a discount on buying in bulk, I bet it hardly impacts the overflated pricing!
I love pretty bags. Pretty carrier bags walking down Faubourg-St Honoré--BLISS!
mommie
10 years
I love my pretty shopping bags. However, it might be true that if shops wouldn't spend so much money on fancy packaging then we would be able to buy more of their products, maybe.
amandasunly
10 years
I so totally keep them! Haha like some stores in Japan have such fabulous packaging I can't resist.
I'm a total junk collector. Sigh. Sad.
creamytofu
10 years
I think its such a fashionable way to recycle...you use it as a gift bag for others and you can use to to carry everyday stuff..
TheMissus
10 years
I actually have made a pledge to no longer accept shopping bags of any kind for a full year... Unless I absolutely have to.
So, for example, I purchased about 7 large resuable cloth bags from Whole Foods for my groceries. I won't accept the paper bags they pack things in.
And, I have pledged to always carry a cloth reusable (large)bag for all my other shopping.
I decided this last week when I bought a new pair of shoes from Barney's. They gave me this beautiful black bag to carry my shoes in. And when I got home, I had to trash it, because I know I won't have a use for it.
So no non-reusable bags for one full year for me!
sofi
10 years
reuse-recycle. I'll save all of them to reuse but the nicer ones are kept for special 'reuses'- not for hauling out the recycling.
glam-sugar
10 years
I am guilty of keeping cute shopping bags, I'm a sucker for any good product packaging!
LuciLu
10 years
I always think Im "going to need this for something else one day" so I have a huuuge collection of them. Lately I have been using them to tote my lunch in to work. :)
krEnElk
10 years
when i was in highschool, i had the ceiling to my bedroom plastered with the "nicer" shopping bags. i've since taken to recyclying them for more practical use, like carrying my lunch to class!
Beauty
10 years
This is such a funny question because it's true! I've got hoards of bags at home for no good reason!
Mme-Hart
10 years
Yep!
We call them carrier bags, though...not paper bags :D
foreignative
10 years
i'm an american living in Germany, and there's a big beauty store chain here called Douglas (DOOG-laas, Heidi Klum does the commercials for them, in German of course!) that has small paper bags printed with the latest perfume ads. Women of all ages reuse them to carry stuff around. Every day you see women in the subway carrying their purse and a Douglas bag. Practical, environmentally friendly and chic, i must say! Not to mention free advertising for Douglas...
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