I was excited Monday. At the end of my grocery shopping excursion at Giant Eagle I ran into some canvas shopping bags.
"That's it!!" I thought to myself.
Canvas shopping bags...it's the item I am going to add to my life for Lent. (See blog from February.) I know...sounds silly and trivial. But, although I do little to actually reuse, reduce, or recycle, I am interested in environmental issues. I felt canvas shopping bags were something I could successfully add into my life routine while doing my part to reduce the number of plastic bags I use. I think I will be successful with adding this habit into my life...it just isn't going to happen today.
I was visiting the doctor (story for a later blog) today and then headed in the grocery store. I had my mantra..."Don't forget the canvas bags...Don't forget the canvas bags." Of course, you know what I do...I forget the canvas bags in my trunk. Somewhere between picking up the jar of mushrooms and the bottle of Windex, I remember the bags. For a moment, a brief moment, I envision myself leaving my very full grocery cart in the aisle so that I can quickly snatch the bags from the back of my car. Alas, my desire to do my part for the earth was overcome by the fear that my grocery cart and everything in it would be captured and put away before I could return. So I will save practicing my new habit for a later date. It will happen. Fly Lady, author of Sink Reflections and my personal home organizing hero, told me it will take 27 days to develop a habit. I guess the 27 days starts to tomorrow.
6 comments:
This is great Anna. And it cracks me up that you forgot them. I'll be interested to hear if it's something you want to keep up:)
-S
I am laughing out loud.
I think this post is awesome.
There's always next time. A. Always next time.
Wifey, you never cease to amaze me. Good luck with the canvas bags and hopefully I can help you remember them next time!
And all you folks that follow A's blog would be fascinated to hear that she has made crock pot dinners three times this week. Three! Which makes five for her life, now, I think.
- T
Ha. Good to see you on the blog, T.
Anna, great effort. Let me know what you think of the canvas bags (when you remember to use them). I've thought about them and then remembered when I worked at Dave's in B. Town during college how much we hated people bringing them in. Ah well.
We reuse paper bags, especially when we shop at Aldi's.
Dri - I'm totall with you. When I was a bagger in high school, we'd always be like, "UGH. Those suck," when people brought them in.
They never stood up straight.
Lol.
T- nice to see you on the blog!
I meant *totally*
And when I referred to, "those" I meant canvas bags. It's only 10:30 a.m. here, I'm clearly not on the top of my game...
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