AIBU students don’t have bags?

Thank goodness you were there to tell Mumsnet about it 🙄

I would think most people own one of the endless tote bags we all have by the age of 18. It's probably that they've not got into a shopping routine yet. Although I'd hope they had some experience of shopping for food at the parental home and taking bags by 18!

The first time I went to a supermarket as a student (long before the days of bags for life) I cheerfully filled my trolly, and packed my shopping into about 8 carrier bags before realising there wasn't a car waiting in the car park and it was a 25 minute walk home. It wasn't a mistake I made twice.

Thank god this is all you have to worry about op 😂

What is your favourite spirits being on offer contributing to the story here? Did you forget a bit?

Given they are paying anything from £500 to £1200 a month for accommodation I don't think paying 10p for a carrier bag is a huge consideration.

Plus I'm 51 years old, have an entire cupboard full of "bags for life" at home and still pay for plastic carrier bags sometimes. Such is life.

Wonder if the one spirit on offer may have contributed to the forgetting part. 🤔

Did you drink the spirits before posting this? Though I must thank you for the vision of a mad woman running up and down the checkouts demanding to know if people are students and if they've brought a bag with them.

HA! I agree with you entirely. It took me the last 12 years or whatever to persuade DH though.... we dropped DS2 off at uni yesterday and went to the supermarket on campus with him and the car was stuck in the multi storey carpark so had no bags handy, so we had to get 2 reusable bags. The young student running checkout in there was giving them to everyone free in fairness as apparently 'the QR codes weren't scanning'. I said to DS2 right you must bring these with you every time you go to the supermarket. He looked at me like I was insane. I did leave them in the student hall kitchen though so hopefully someone will use them.

Reminds me of the joke, "I've got enough 'bags for life' to last me a lifetime" 😉

I'm 47 and sometimes need to buy an additional bag.

The students will work it out after a few more grocery trips.

I have loads of bags for life but still had to buy a reusable carrier bag in Sainsbury’s the other day as there was something on offer I use regularly so stocked up. I’d only taken one small bag in with me as I thought I’d only pick up a couple of bits.

I’m 59.

They will accumulate a few reuseable shopping bags during freshers week I should think so they’ll be ok for the rest of term!

No pen?! 😱
Organising my stationery for uni was one of the things I did commit fully to.

It was before the years of bag charges and the bags usually became bin liners after the groceries were carried home.

Indeed. Also the plastic kind can be reused (I'd suggest, for a wider range of things than a bag for life) so all good either way.

What a weird thing to notice let alone be bothered enough to make a thread about how ‘students need to realise’

I think some people just like to find fault or comment for the sake of it about young people. Or are rather ignorant.

When I was a brand new fresher and went to pay with my recently acquired debit card, a woman behind me in the queue said loudly and pointedly "Ugh! Why do students get credit cards?"

The bag tax was bought in so society would cut down on bag usage.
Unfortunately it was discovered that no gave a toss and were happy to pay for bags.
The tax price went up and up... people still happily paid for more bags.
Many shops now have ones with cute/seasonal designs on them which cost £1 or £1.50 but people still buy them because they want to collect them.
These students may have grown up with having to pay for bags but they don't care. They don't even think about it.
They just pay and count it as an everyday expense like bus fares or launderette costs.

Nobody was complaining.

why do you care about how easy it is for someone to tie a bloody bag up anyway?

I still forget to bring a bag far too often, Im sure the students will figure it out OP

I think you find we use 2% of the single use plastic bags that we used to

you may keep shelling out but most people are not

Well OP I’m sure your saintly self brought your own bags to cart your hard liquor home. I’m glad you managed to find them on offer, so you didn’t skint yourself

Then why do so many shops keep literally running out of bags?
I re-use probably 80% of the time. If I do need to pay for a new bag quite frequently retailers have run out (except for the £1.50 bags).
Also very few people use bags as "single use".
That phrase makes me laugh.

Because they don’t get that many in in the first place ?

because you live in an outlier area where people take far more bags than is normal for a store so they never have enough ?

But no one is complaining about anything except you.

And everyone has to buy one before they can reuse it