I only have 5 bags in my collection, and none of them match:

• 2 free reusable shopping bags that Safeway sent me.
• 1 free reusable shopping bag that Walmart sent me.
• 1 free reusable shopping bag that Febreze sent me.
• and 1 personalized shopping bag that I can’t use yet because it’s my Mother’s Day present! (I’ll open it tomorrow!)

Do you see a trend here?  All my bags are free (except the Mother’s Day one- I admit, I bought that one).  It’s not that I don’t want to use all reusable shopping bags instead of plastic, but I figure as long as companies are passing them out for free, it’s time to amass a free collection!  Ah, I love being frugal.

While we’re on the subject of reusable shopping bags, I found this funny animated video about plastic shopping bags at Go Green Tube (it’s like YouTube, only it has all green, recycling and reusing videos).  The video below is too cute about animated animals shopping without bags – you just have to watch!  (Subscribers will need to click through to this article to see the video by clicking here.)

Photo by homard.net.

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