to think using FRENCH bags for life is poncery?

[SCargot]

in the Uk natch.

Oh yes imported Abercrombie bag from California was the number 1 carrier bag in this house pre UK having Abercombie.

Yes, my PE bag was a River Island one with pre-raphaelite paiting on it. I loved my carrier bag.

Abetadad - jack Wills is for aspirational teens. All the Cheltenham College pupils have Jack Wills clothes and Diana Vickers hair. My dd would be aghast at the fact a 47 year old man would wear jack Wills (sorry).

We still need Anna's view of carrier bags de Paris.

my money is on string bags to be filled with authentic artisanal produce from local markets and bijou delis, not branded plastic hypermarché sacs-pour-vie

French supermarkets don't have any carrier bags so you have to buy bags for life there if you've forgotten to take one. Do you expect people to throw them away when they come back?
Life's too short to examine each bag I pull out for 'ponceyness'.
Just off to the Co-op with my turtle bag... I read somewhere on the thread that you approve so that's ok

How come everyone seems to have French carrier bags, and I don't?

And I live in France.

Is there a French mumsnet? Are my Tesco & Asda bags being discussed?

Oh, and loads of locals around here use snazzy coloured modern granny shopper bags with wheels...

Yeah, but the minute you put something heavy in a string bag (some spuds, for example) the bugger stretches to such an extent that it is practically dragging on the ground, and also makes like a cat and tries to wrap around your ankles. No - I'll stick with my poncy LeClerc placcy bags, thank you very much.

GetOrfMoiLand - frighteningly I did buy them in Cheltenham.

Tell your daughter they are the sort of clothes a 47 yr old bloke buys (with his 45 yr old DW's encouragement) because he thinks they make him look cool. That should put her off!

Abetadad - I could kiss you. Hopefully that will work and then I can avoid the whole cajoleing 'please buy me these £100 jeans and £15 knickers mummy' and i can kit her out in Top Shop gear instead

i do this, french bags for life are so much nicer. i do cancel it out with my aldi bag.

Poncey as all hell, but I did it anyway! We got 2 of them from Carrefour, quite deliberately, cos they look much more interesting. It makes a change from deliberately using the Tesco ones in Sainsburys and the Sainsburys ones in Tesco which I used to do to make sure they didn't start feeling they owned my soul...

They're probably all made in China anyway and shipped here at vast cost to our carbon footprints.

I wonder if there is a french equivalent where 'snail' is busy berating her fellow mesdames for their poncy use of a tesco cath kidston bfl.

Oh bloody hell, I do this. I also have a collection of Asda, Tesco and Waitrose bags that go to France with us on holiday, because you can never have too many of the bloody things!

I do like the french bags though...

Our leclerc bag works really well for the big shop so YABU and judgey since we do our big shop at Aldi.

CheapAndProudOfItTiggaxx

The French Leclerc bags for life are fantastic. Why don't any British supermarkets do similarly good ones? The best bit is whatever it is they make them out of so one little hole doesn't mean the whole thing comes to bits. We've been using ours for the past three or four years in happy poncery. Also the loops inside for standing wine bottles up are really useful.

Ooh - we have a few French bags that go to Asda each week. They are twice as strong as the UK ones so last longer

I like using any bag other than Asda bags in Asda (theirs are the flimsiest)

get orf
was it your dd haveing school issues or was it mascaraohara?

tws someoen in "midlands " (arf)

I got some in the US... I suspect that not poncy at all especially as one is from K-mart

my mother gave me a couple of french bag for lifes and I used them. Didn't even think I looked poncey Too late now, they've broken and I won't be replacing them!

I use ones I got in NYC.
I'm not a ponce, just well travelled [flicks hair]

I have lots of French bags for life. And Swiss ones, are they extra poncy? Globus and Manor ones are coveted in our house.

I have also just bought the ultimate ponce shopping accessory a reisenthel carrycruiser

My future SIL carries about a 'little brown bag' as well as her handbag, but then she does think she is a WAG - my DB has made a bad choice I fear!

I love bags for life - I have a hessian Waitrose one which I bought at their food festival in the summer. It has special pockets inside to put eggs and things in so that they don't get squashed. If that makes me a ponce then I don't care!

I would like to defend my Big Brown Bag. Tis no where near chavvy - thankyou!

LOL at DD's school all the children in maternelle have drawn a picture of themselves with their name underneath and polypropylene bags for life have been printed with all the picture and the name of the school (French name followed by Paris) as a Christmas gift (funds raised are for a school in Africa).

Given the population of this school the bags are currently winging their way through the postal systems of the world shortly to be opened by Grannies, Aunties and Cousins across the globe and paraded on the shopping streets of dozens of countries...

I think this probably outponces ponciness...

I've got a german one my sister chucked out and I nicked. Sadly it's less sturdy than the English ones but I still prefer it as the design is much more tasteful than some crappy hearts or ladybirds.

The monsoon ones are nice though.