We try to bring totes but we only grocery shop once a month so honestly we usually don't have enough.  We usually only shop at Whole Foods though so you can only get paper, they don't have plastic bags.

aurorabunny Aug. 25, 2009 at 4:09 PM

plastic, i have multiple uses for them. i use them for cat poop, bathroom trash liners, they also make great padding for moving breakables in boxes! when I get an overflow we recycle them. paper has broken on me many times and frankly its annoying. i mean to get the resusable ones, but never have the means too.

navyma23 Aug. 25, 2009 at 4:51 PM

I bring my own:)

girl_in_the_D Aug. 25, 2009 at 5:12 PM

I use plastic if I need them and paper if I have enough plastic stocked up. We use plastic bags as trash can liners and also for pooper scooping and I send my hubby's lunch in them.

toriandgrace Aug. 25, 2009 at 6:01 PM

I have my own... I bought 15 of them at Walmart about a year ago, they have all held up really well, and then I keep 7 or so in the car, and whatever ones we have hanging out in the house I bring back in.

the only annoying thing is they try to charge me for them all the time when I put them on the belt!!

LuminousMom Aug. 25, 2009 at 6:56 PM

I bring my own, made with my old t-shirts or denim jeans.

curlymonkey Aug. 25, 2009 at 8:20 PM

I tell them whatever works.  I do reuse both the paper and plastic for different things.  Like bathroom trash for plastic and to put my cans and glass in paper.  Crafts w/ the kids.  Some stores u can bring in bags for recycling(plastic).  I need to buy those reusable bag again.  Last time DH took them(over and over again) and used them for his nasty gym clothes and shoes, grr.  I don't want to put food in them after that

Lynette Aug. 25, 2009 at 10:22 PM

when i remember i bring my own, if i forget which is often, under the sink as well, the only bags they have around is plastic but when i see i have many of then i recycle them =-)

sodapple Aug. 25, 2009 at 10:29 PM

bring a few of my own and then if we are low on plastic i get plastic, paper i get paper. use plastic for trash bags and stuff and the paper bags are great for the kids to color on or make paper bag monsters.

trelimon Aug. 26, 2009 at 3:53 AM

I don't think any of the stores around here have paper bags.  We mostly shop at Costco so we don't get bags of any kind.  The only other place I really shop for food is our local grocery store and I walk there so I bring my canvas bags that I bought for $1 (mostly from Walgreens which is right next door to the market).  We get all our plastic bags from Target now because I never think to bring the canvas bags with us when we go there.

We used to have hundreds of plastic bags around the house to the point that I would just throw them away after shopping.  But now that I have the canvas bags we only have maybe a dozen plastic bags in the whole house and have actually run out of them, lol.

justanotherjen Aug. 26, 2009 at 10:25 AM