Poplar Hill Happenings

1. Keep them with your purse/keys/cell phone and make sure they go out the door with you every time you think you might shop. OR put them back in the car right after they are emptied.
2. Store them folded into 1/4's on top of one another. They are easy to carry that way.
3. Stick them right in the "baby seat" of the grocery cart so you'll see them at check out. Mom says there is nothing worse than piling all your groceries on top of the bags in the basket then you get up to the check out and they start using those plastic things before you can say "I've got my own bags." Make them take them out and use yours.
4. Put your bags on the check out counter first before you put any food up there. You will also probably have to say "those are my bags, please use them for the groceries."
5. Offer to help bag. After all because they don't have your bags on those little holders they do have to open them up and there might not be space their for them to easily work with them.
6. Tell them to stuff as much as they can into to bags from
7. If you run out of bags see if you and the clerk can rearrange your food stuff so that boxes of cereal and other large items are just free in your cart. That will make more room and those things you can just put easy in the car with them not being lost when you drive around and then unload. Milk shouldn't go in. It goes easy in the car loose.

This has been cross-posted at www.homesteadingtoday.com

Keep taking those baby steps.  Christine