Hi everyone. I'm feeling a little down. My temp this morning was still 101.5. This can't be good for me. I'm going to call the doctor later today to see what I should do.

Sorry to mope and run.

{{{Kristin}}} Calling the doctor is probably a good idea. Make sure you're drinking plenty of liquids.

The baggus look nice. I like the shape of them, but I think I need something a little smaller. I don't think I could lift that bag if it was full.

I have a couple of Chico bags (I got one at your Co-op, Sparky) that are similar to the baggus, it sounds like. They're only drawback is that they are currently full of the last things I bought with them. I need self-emptying bags that will fold themselves up and tuck themselves into my purse or jacket pocket.

Piano movers have already come, woo!

there are also these from Paper Studios :http://www.paperstudio.com/catalog2.php?category=Envirosax

feel better Kristin! Hope you find the crepe myrtle Sparky.

It's not shoplifting until you try to exit the store without paying, right?

Yes, I believe you have to be leaving the store to be stopped for shoplifting.

I usually bag myself (except in TJ's where they know how to bag properly), since it's generally faster and then I get to decide what goes where, weight distribution, etc. Although, since now stores here have to use paper bags, that's not as much of an issue and you don't have the 2-items-per-bag syndrome anymore.

I hate when I forget my own bags though.

My local Raley's is pretty good about bagging, though of late I have been doing the self-service checkout whenever possible and thus doing my own bagging. In the great last-minute search for matzoh I bought a few things at a Safeway one town over and got everything individually bagged in plastic bags. I hadn't seen that since coming to California.

I think there's already a law on the books banning plastic bags in Los Angeles (or possibly all of California, but at least in Los Angeles). This makes me happy from a green perspective, but we do use those plastic bags as trash liners (we have really small trash cans) and as kitty poop disposal containers.

It will be annoying when we have to change our habits in those areas.

This makes me happy from a green perspective, but we do use those plastic bags as trash liners (we have really small trash cans) and as kitty poop disposal containers.

Exactly. I guess we'll be buying small trash bags to use for litter box cleaning, which puts the same amount of plastic back into play, right? We usually bring a couple of our own bags and get a couple of plastic to use for the cats.

Big chain stores are banned from using plastic bags in SF. I'm fine with that after looking at the 1 billion pound swirl of plastic trash spinning around in the middle of the ocean.

JZ's good about taking our bags to the store. I tend to just get paper bags because I need something to take the recycling down in.

Exactly. I guess we'll be buying small trash bags to use for litter box cleaning, which puts the same amount of plastic back into play, right?

Well, for you maybe, but what about all the people who don't recycle? Overall, I'd rather have them out of circulation.