• gigaqps@lemmy.world
    2 days

    If you forget the bag, go home and fetch it.

    This gives you a while to be annoyed and frustrated, which helps you remember next time.

    If you just buy a new bag, it’s such a non-issue that you never learn.

    I used this technique and it fixed a year of bad habits in two trips.

    • HeHoXa@lemmy.zip
      2 days

      It isn’t the case any more but there was a phase where my trunk was literally full, bottom to top not an inch to spare, of reusable bags, and they’d be forgotten.

      It worked out nicely once though when I finally remembered and just grabbed a whole bag full of bags, and there was some Karen going off on the poor self checkout cashier girl about having to pay for her bags, and I was just like “here take whatever I got a trunk full”, and everyone was happy.

      And then Albert Einstein clapped.

    • cRazi_man@europe.pub
      2 days

      Gotta remember to put them back in the car after bringing groceries into the house though. Also what about second car?

      • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
        2 days

        Just need to have enough bags to support a slow “when you get to it” rotation. Bags stay in trunk (you might need to double the number of bags you have to support a second vehicle), then grab a bag of bags when going shopping, fill bags at store, empty and full ones go in trunk when leaving store, full bags go inside to wherever is most convenient, then when they are empty, place them near the door. Then, on some trip to the car, remember to grab the bags by the door and stick them into the trunk and you’ve completed one cycle for those bags.

        If they get dirty, put them near the laundry instead of the door and either mix them in with another load of laundry or do them separately if you’re getting that many bags dirty often enough to justify a load of bags. If they aren’t specifically dirty, they should be fine. They aren’t like clothes where you’re slowly sweating and getting skin oils into them so need to wash them on the regular. Just turn them inside out to make sure the bits of onion skin all get washed out.

  • chrisashtear@lemmy.zip
    2 days

    You gptta just be stubborn as hell. Refuse the bag, take your cart to the car, and chuck it all in

  • ThotDragon@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    2 days

    I have these nylon ones that scrunch into these tiny little bundles that I keep in my bag all the time. Can’t leave them behind without also leaving my wallet behind.