To think blue carrier bags look "naff"

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Can't think of a better word..
Theyre a bit hard to avoid when you're going to the market or local shop, and I really hate carrying them. I never reuse blue carrier bags for anything apart from a bin liner.

When I see someone carrying a blue carrier bag down the road I feel bleugh...I just have this irrational dislike for blue carrier bags. after the blue ones I hate the stripy white and blue or white and red ones. They're flimsy and ugly.

Love the way the blue carrier bag has become a sort of signifier for existential despair, especially Prelude's with the vodka.

I tend to carry canvas ones so I can feel smug and ethical. Sometimes I forget and I furtively squirrel the blue ones amongst the ocado ones for recycling. Stripey ones make me think of going to the butchers with my mum in the 80s.

But wait. Lambrini IS posh! And tastes lovely with Wotsits. You, you Lambrini-ists you.

I just wrote out a long message and lost it.

Yes, have seen people with Stella packs in blue bags on the main road.

mackerel, those green (slimy bogey) coloured one are horrible too. The black ones aren't that bad, but they look pretty shifty like they're filled with stock off the black market.

No need to turn curtain blue bags back into curtains. Maybe dye them another colour.

Well hopefully they'll die out wth the carrier bags charge coming in.

I hate them. Mostly because they are so often seen decorating the shrubbery by the sides of dual carriageways.

But OP surely you have a naice selection of jute bags with rolled handles, no?

"Yes, have seen people with Stella packs in blue bags on the main road."

Since a previous poster associates blue bags with alcohol abuse, do you also think Stella in a blue bag = alcoholic? Is anyone who buys Stella an alcoholic, or only if it's in a blue bag? Only Stella? How about a can of Fosters? I hate to realise how people are judged by such things. My husband barely drinks any alcohol at all, but once in a blue moon, (especially if it's a hot day and he's been working in the garden), he'll have a cold can of Fosters. If you saw him after he'd bought some cans from a place that uses blue carrier bags, you'd assume alcoholism would you? You'd be wrong.

I agree. All carrier bags should be red.

I don't assume that someone carrying said blue bag is an alcoholic, rather that alcohol dependent people tend to buy alcohol from a corner shop (for various reasons) and it reminds me of them when I see one, and that makes me sad.

All carrier bags look naff.

Why don't we just all sit in silence and watch blank screens because apparently we're not allowed to start threads about things that matter to us anymore.

This actually matters to you Op??

It's a carrier bag - its of no importance. It's a corner shop staple FFS. If you are going down the 'how common' route (are you my mother?), I grew up in an 'old money' rural town, the seriously rich there usually wander around, with holes in their knackered jeans, ancient M&S jumpers also full of holes and (dun,dun, dun...) a grotty old carrier bag. Who honestly gives a monkeys?

Yes it matters to me. Of course it does. It doesn't take priority over my life, children, house etc but it matters enough to post about it. There are others here who hate them too, so it's not just me.

Also, no I don't think all blue bag carriers are alcoholic.

I have 2 massive jute lidl bags, and jute tesco one, massive toys r us one and one big massive waitrose one. I used to have a nice m&s one but sil never returned it ( whole other thread).

Sorry lidl ones aren't jute.

If carrier bags 'matter' to you I find that rather sad really. To me, child poverty, people trafficking, racism, hypocrisy, cruelty, DV, mental health, addiction, the poor way we look after our elderly - they all 'matter'. Not carrier bags.

You are my mother aren't you? I knew she'd hunt me down eventually.
My instant thought when i see jute bags is as per other poster said, smug and ethical with a capital E, avoid, avoid, avoid. And before you get on the recycyling thing, i use the same plastic ones over and over. Its very new money/nouveau riche to judge someone by appearance/what bag they carry/what car they drive/house they live in.

When did I say I don't care about child poverty, racism, human trafficking etc?!! Of course these things matter to me. They obviously matter more to me than the colour of a carrier bag. But why can't I write down I dislike blue carrier bags? Yes, it's not up there with my dislike of racist people or Justin beiber, but I still dislike them. I made a thread about it as a thought. Some of the responses I've got are so arsey like I shouldn't be discussing anything but people dying and social unrest.

Oh yes, market bags.
I won't carry them, if I ever go to get fabric I take a canvas bag.
Just too poor/alchy looking to me.

My dm was abundantly scathing about All Things Common. Her list of qualifying items was so lengthy and her campaign so endlessly fought over her lifetime that I have almost lost count of the individual abominations she fought against. Yet even her, The Queen of Uncommonness, had nothing at all to say about blue carrier bags. Therefore I can only dismiss your claim as sheer bunkum.

I have had a mishap with a blue carrier bag once. Lovely bottle of wine. All over the pavement.

Did she ever carry a blue carrier bag though? I bet she didn't.

Yes OP how dare you discuss such mundane things when there is human trafficking to worry about.

I only ever see blue carrier bags in trees so my only thought on them is usually "oh there's a bag in a tree"

I feel the need to defend why I was buying vodka in a blue bag now

As it happened, my flatmate and I were both young professionals in our twenties and the shop was on the way home from work. It would generally last both of us the whole weekend and also offer hospitality to whichever men we pulled friends happened to drop in after a night out.

You only have to read a few of the sober threads / blogs to see that supermarkets are the preferred option for middle class alcoholics what with the anonymity of a different check-out person every day and the financial wherewithal to chuck a few random bits and pieces along with a couple of bottles of red into the naice bag for life. That doesn't mean I judge ever person I see doing it though.

Did my mother carry a blue carrier bag? Of course she did. Ideal for dog poo.

Thank you summerisle, looks like your mother only saw them fit for dog po, like I do for bin liners. Didn't another poster mention they only used them for potty liners? that's all they're good for.

Prelude I liked the vodka story! Wasn't judging you, or your blue bag.

If that had happened to my friend and I in our early twenties we may well have cried.