Minor things that bother you

[D-Dey65]

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[Scott5114]

By 'single use bags', I assume that you mean 'T-shirt' bags, I use them all the time as mini trash bags, and they work great for that. 

"Plastic bags are so great, I look forward to throwing them away!"

[hbelkins]

I hope Kentucky never goes woke to the point of banning plastic bags. They're handy for many things:

*Keeping in the car as litter bags
*Disposing of cat waste
*Transporting small items from the house to the car, from the car to the office, etc.
*Tying around your shoes to keep them dry or free of dirt/wet grass/etc.

Paper bags make good cat toys or places for kitty to hide. Around our house, a paper bag holds as much intrigue as does a box for our feline population.

[oscar]

Paper bags make good cat toys or places for kitty to hide. Around our house, a paper bag holds as much intrigue as does a box for our feline population.

When my former cat lived with another cat that liked to hide in paper bags, he had lots of fun pouncing on the other cat. My cat insisted on a box or solid cat carrier, and would violently resist any attempt to put him in a bag.

My county, like most other counties and cities in northern Virginia, doesn't ban plastic bags altogether, unlike the complete ban in some of our Maryland counterparts. But they tax the plastic bags. I bring reusable bags into grocery stores, just to beat the bag tax. Sometimes the reusable bag is a regular plastic bag I got for free on the road. It usually doesn't last long, but better than nothing.

[Scott5114]

I hope Kentucky never goes woke to the point of banning plastic bags.

I hope Kentucky goes slept. Y'all act like you could use a nap, all the time.

They're handy for many things:

* Throwing away
* Throwing away
* Doing something worse than a better bag would
*Tying around your shoes to keep them dry or free of dirt/wet grass/etc.

FTFY

The last one is of no use to me, because I don't live somewhere that has "dirt", "wet", or "grass".

[vdeane]

The fact that people ignore ROAD CLOSED signs and drive beyond them until the road is impassible.  Then they have to u turn it back to the point the barricade/ warning sign was and then use the detour (or reprogram their GPS).

By my house I witnessed several cars make a u turn as my street is closed for sewage upgrades until September.  It is so unbelievable that so many drivers know how to read and do not exercise common sense.

I've done that to sight clinch things.

I've found the trick to this is to scan the first item, then place it into the bag and place the bag on the scale all at once. Some stores here now have a "Use My Own Bags" button. You press that before you start scanning, then place your bags in the bagging area. But if they don't have that, I've found the method I just described works pretty well, provided the item has at least some weight to it. That is, scan the milk or the burger meat or whatever first. Don't scan a packet of taco seasoning first.

I always add them first and I haven't had any issues.  Hannaford had (I think - IIRC the new system doesn't ask about bags at all) a button for "use my own bags" but as far as I can tell, it didn't do anything.  It would still ask "did you add a bag?" when placing the bag.  Heaven help you if you add a bag in the middle of scanning things at Price Chopper, however.  That requires calling over the attendant to have them unlock it, so always add bags first there.  The trick there is that you can't jostle the bag while you're adding items (which you're most likely to do for the first item in a bag, so I'm always very careful with that).

I've gotten annoyed with how the attendants load bags so I use the self-checkout largely so I can do it myself.  Even while assembling bags, nobody places down the plastic thing to help them hold their shape (even at Wegmans, which is remarkable since these are Wegmans bags).

By 'single use bags', I assume that you mean 'T-shirt' bags, I use them all the time as mini trash bags, and they work great for that.

"Plastic bags are so great, I look forward to throwing them away!"

It was nice to not have to buy garbage bags, but honestly, I don't miss having to figure out which bags could be reused, store them accordingly, and bring the ones that can't (and the excess ones that can) to the store periodically to be recycled.  And the reusable bags are easier to pack.  The only real downsides are having to walk them back to the car and mall shopping.

[Max Rockatansky]

Let's say I start buying dedicated plastic bags for picking up waste from my four dogs.  Is how that tangibly different from what I'm already doing with plastic store bags?  The only difference I see is that I would be paying for something I once had a steady supply of for free.  Both end up in the trash all the same.

What about boxes for Costco or similar stores?  I always grab one when I shop and those boxes don't get reused for pretty much anything beyond taking stuff out of my car.  There is a lower chance that box is ending up in my recycling bin versus if it stayed at the store. 

[gonealookin]

I love the Trader Joe's reusable heavy-duty cotton bags that can go in the washing machine for cleaning.  Problem is, I keep them in the car so I don't always have them with me, because often when I'm on a several-mile local walk I'll stop toward the end at the Safeway about a mile from my house to pick up a few items.  I don't particularly care to carry a bag around for a couple hours for a stop I may not make at all.

That Safeway, in Nevada, still has the thin single-use plastic bags for free.  There's a huge pile of them next to my cans recycling basket, because I don't have that many uses for that size bag.  Either I want a one-gallon Baggie or a 13-gallon big trash bag.  My main use for the Safeway ones is probably emptying the confetti out of the paper shredder into one of those, rather than dumping the confetti loose into the 13-gallon bag where it will fly out of the opening and go everywhere.

[kkt]

I hope Kentucky never goes woke to the point of banning plastic bags. They're handy for many things:

*Keeping in the car as litter bags
*Disposing of cat waste
*Transporting small items from the house to the car, from the car to the office, etc.
*Tying around your shoes to keep them dry or free of dirt/wet grass/etc.

Paper bags make good cat toys or places for kitty to hide. Around our house, a paper bag holds as much intrigue as does a box for our feline population.

Plastic bags are not banned here.  They're just not given away for free at grocery stores.  You want plastic bags, you can buy rolls of them.  Even many different kinds of store still give away plastic bags for your purchases if you need them.

[Max Rockatansky]

When I was dating Jessica, I found out she was really big on recycling.  That being the case she had voted "yes" for California Prop 67 in November 2016.  None of it was any particular big deal until I started cleaning her backyard up and renovating the landscape.  As described above I used plastic bags to clean up after her two dogs (which are now two of my four) so I could clear the grounds to build on. 

Jessica took exception to me using single use plastic bags for trash purposes.  She ended up buying a bunch of reusable bags and stuffing them into my then daily driver Chevy Sonic.  Sometime in early 2018 I was out in Florida visiting my sister in the Tampa area and Jessica was going fly in later in the week.  I went to Publix about six times during the week and asked for triple plastic bags.  Being in Florida nobody really questioned why I would need so many plastic bags and the cashiers obliged my requests. 

I took all the plastic bags I had obtained and put them in the truck of my rental car.  When the day came to pick up Jessica up at the airport in Tampa, I popped the truck and told her to load up her luggage.  She was a little confused about why I wasn't loading her luggage, but I told her the airport police might ticket me if I don't stay in my car while in the arrival zone.  She opened the trunk and was greeted by the mass of plastic bags I had gathered.  She actually thought it was funny but made me load them into my luggage so they could be reused at home.  It took about a solid year to go through every plastic bag I had obtained. 

[Rothman]

When I was dating Jessica, I found out she was really big on recycling.  That being the case she had voted "yes" for California Prop 67 in November 2016.  None of it was any particular big deal until I started cleaning her backyard up and renovating the landscape.  As described above I used plastic bags to clean up after her two dogs (which are now two of my four) so I could clear the grounds to build on. 

Jessica took exception to me using single use plastic bags for trash purposes.  She ended up buying a bunch of reusable bags and stuffing them into my then daily driver Chevy Sonic.  Sometime in early 2018 I was out in Florida visiting my sister in the Tampa area and Jessica was going fly in later in the week.  I went to Publix about six times during the week and asked for triple plastic bags.  Being in Florida nobody really questioned why I would need so many plastic bags and the cashiers obliged my requests. 

I took all the plastic bags I had obtained and put them in the truck of my rental car.  When the day came to pick up Jessica up at the airport in Tampa, I popped the truck and told her to load up her luggage.  She was a little confused about why I wasn't loading her luggage, but I told her the airport police might ticket me if I don't stay in my car while in the arrival zone.  She opened the trunk and was greeted by the mass of plastic bags I had gathered.  She actually thought it was funny but made me load them into my luggage so they could be reused at home.  It took about a solid year to go through every plastic bag I had obtained. 

I admire your dedication to ruining the Earth.

[LilianaUwU]

When I was dating Jessica, I found out she was really big on recycling.  That being the case she had voted "yes" for California Prop 67 in November 2016.  None of it was any particular big deal until I started cleaning her backyard up and renovating the landscape.  As described above I used plastic bags to clean up after her two dogs (which are now two of my four) so I could clear the grounds to build on. 

Jessica took exception to me using single use plastic bags for trash purposes.  She ended up buying a bunch of reusable bags and stuffing them into my then daily driver Chevy Sonic.  Sometime in early 2018 I was out in Florida visiting my sister in the Tampa area and Jessica was going fly in later in the week.  I went to Publix about six times during the week and asked for triple plastic bags.  Being in Florida nobody really questioned why I would need so many plastic bags and the cashiers obliged my requests. 

I took all the plastic bags I had obtained and put them in the truck of my rental car.  When the day came to pick up Jessica up at the airport in Tampa, I popped the truck and told her to load up her luggage.  She was a little confused about why I wasn't loading her luggage, but I told her the airport police might ticket me if I don't stay in my car while in the arrival zone.  She opened the trunk and was greeted by the mass of plastic bags I had gathered.  She actually thought it was funny but made me load them into my luggage so they could be reused at home.  It took about a solid year to go through every plastic bag I had obtained. 

I admire your dedication to ruining the Earth.

That's where I think this is nonsense. The corporations' factories pollute so much that a plastic bag or two won't make a difference.

[Scott5114]

I realized at one point my opposition to plastic bags isn't even environmental. I just hate the sons of bitches.

[LilianaUwU]

I realized at one point my opposition to plastic bags isn't even environmental. I just hate the sons of bitches.

Can't say I disagree with you. It was always a gamble bringing Dr Pepper home, even with doubled bags.