I’m looking to replace my old bags for life with something a tad more....

[mckenzie]

... stylish, user friendly, cool, funky.
I’m not sure what but I know that when I borrowed my friends Fortnum and Mason ones the other week (because I’d forgotten that I had taken mine out of the car), they somehow made my weekly food shop just the tiniest bit less tedious.

The F&M ones aren’t really me though. Is there something style wise similar perhaps but less

TIA

I have about 6 of the Tesco Orla Keily ones.
I was bereft when they stopped doing a different one every few months

They look great Bruce but sadly only now on EBay at a premium yes?

I quite like these

www.waitrose.com/ecom/products/waitrose-bacon-eggs-bag/877462-688011-688012

Sainsbury's new habitat range is really great.

www.lakeland.co.uk/25306/2-in-1+Trolley+Tote+Set

I have these and love them.

I use the hessian Seasalt bags.

I really like Envirosax bags - this one, for instance: Envirosax . They come in lots of designs and fold up very small for carrying around in a handbag.

Oh thank you all
I’m loving the Waitrose one and also like the Lakeland idea although the reviewers mark them down for not collapsing easily and inside one another.
I can’t find the Habitat ones on the Sainsbury’s website. Are they just in store perhaps?

I have some hessian 60s design bags that I got from Dunelm

I have some 'I was a sari' ones.Thet are so compact they store in the smallest handbag are are beautiful colours.
For pure practicality at the supermarket I prefer Aldis bags,a decent size and strong and shamelessly use them from the back of the car in other supermarkets.
If I but a big item I pay the 20p,I don't have bags big enough for coats and these always come in handy somewhere.

Hessian are the best. I got some from Tesco over 10 years ago and they're still going strong. They stand rigid in the trolley so are brilliant for sweeping everything in at the till in Aldi & Lidl. They fold down flat-ish, enough so that 4 bags can fit inside one bag.

I purchased a 6 pack of black bags from Morrison's for £12. The bags are all different sizes and collapse well, are made of great material and very durable, also have pockets and one of the bags is a freezer/cooler bag.

I find them far more "chic" then bags with big designs or slogans. The entire set is worth every penny and I never shop without it! I can't find any picture online, but if you would like to see, let me know I will upload pictures of mine.

The Booths logo ones are great. Really spacious, durable and puntastic. I always get a lot of compliments on mine.

ThomasShelbysBunnet Just looked at those. They look really useful, ta!

I might be tempted to get some and then write puns or something on them, or stick some flowers on, just to brighten my shopping day, but as a concept they're grand.

Surely the whole point of bags for life is you use them til the arse falls out of them and then go to the supermarket and get them replaced?

was just about to say similar unicorn- keep using them till they fall apart ,that's the whole point of them. Fashion accessories and buying more stuff when its not needed is a major part of the problem that is fucking up the world

But if you can get bags that just keep going then isn't that better?

@ Mckenzie they are really stiff when you first get them, but after a few uses they are much easier to fold down. I've had mine for about a year and a half now and they're still in great condition.

Yes the more expensive hessian bags last way longer than the 10p bags for life that you get replaced all the time.

www.rexlondon.com/astrid-flower-shopping-bag?ll=catprod&ctid=5242&pos=4

Other styles available too.

Can I ask what you’re going to do with your old bags for life? Just wondering because I always forget to take mine so sometimes buy one at the shop and they’re cluttering up the house 😄 obviously don’t want to send them to landfill but they don’t seem very recyclable???

I’m talking about to 10p thick carrier bags. I have plenty of fabric ones i’ll Keep!

I’ll ask my Tesco delivery man if he’ll take them actually too I guess?

I got some very strong, double stitched, unbleached cotton bags from a website called “thecleverbaggers”, about 18 years ago and they’re still perfect, despite lugging my heavy supermarket shopping home every week. They go through the washing machine and come up pristine.

I fully expect them to last the rest of my lifetime - surely the point of a bag, to avoid waste and/or plastic?

I picked up an Orla Keily one in Tesco for about £4 and it's great. Large but tall and stuff fits in it well. Including long bread!

Surely the whole point of bags for life is you use them til the arse falls out of them and then go to the supermarket and get them replaced?

This, sorry. Unless your current bags are actually falling apart, replacing them defeats the point of a bag for life. Google how many times you have to use a fabric bag for life to cancel out the resources and energy used in its production. They take a lot more resources to manufacture than plastic bags so you have to keep using them for ages. Still preferable to disposable bags, of course, but not if you dispose of them before they disintegrate.

You can take any broken bags to Sainsbury's, they have a recycling bin behind the tills. I guess most supermarkets will have the same. They accept any bags, not just Sainsbury's.

I wouldn't buy new bags until the old ones have died a death. It's pointless and wasteful.