to think using FRENCH bags for life is poncery?

[SCargot]

in the Uk natch.

My local baker makes their own which declare: FOLLOW YOUR NOSE TO BARRY THE BAKER'S

they are Brown with a Beige trim which sums up my life TBH

yes, it's not a map, is it ?

OMG this thread!

It is poncey if: you use it on purpose and bought it specially to use in the UK.

It is NOT poncey if: you went on a SC holiday to France and so as not to waste them you use them over here. I fit in to this camp so opener YABVVVU!

notwaving
I was wondering about le cartes. Thought my French was so bad. Le (la?)sac is a bag, not sure if the bag for life have a different name.

Ahem.

How come the OP made a clear reference to "drinky nibbles" along the way, and yet still no one has mentioned pots and kettles? How? How?

Horton ours doesn't have loops for wine bottles

FeelingCheatedTiggaxx

Oh Justa please don't consider yourself a failure on that account. Hell, I put one IN THE BIN today. Just like that.

Justa
I will send you a poncy French one if you would like to redeem yourself

I am just over the border in Switzerland but shop over in France and always forget to take bags with me. I have DOZENS of the buggers.

Am going to the post office tomorrow to post loads of other stuff so if you want one CAT me

My sister sent me a bag by one of her artists..

It has "I Shoplift... therefore I Am" on the side of it...

I use it for DS library books.. too scared to use it in real shops...

Oh lol at Anna - I knew your would trump us all on carrier bag chic

Yes OP I distinclty remember a reference to drinks and nibbles at Waitrose Studio so I certainly think you commit poncedom crimes yourself!

i was in john lewis yesterday - they were selling those light-weight cloth bags that fold up and keep in your hand bag (which I think are brilliant - I have two of them) - but the ones in JL were by some poncey hand-bag deisgner and they were £20 . I despair. a bit like the paper-weight I saw advertised made from "sustainable" wood. wouldn't it be much more sustainable just to not bother with the paper-weight at all. which is, after all, completely pointless

This is an odd thread. Since I was little I have loved having shopping bags from the countries I've visited it reminds me of my hols and I have never thought that anyone would think very scruffy me as poncy. I had a paper bag in 1983 from Japan I just loved it and used it until it fell apart. I now think I was ahead of my time reusing old bags. At the mo I love my Corte Ingles bag how common is that.

Anya Hindmarch did a reusable shopping bag for Sainsburys a couple of years ago, and there was blood on the floor as people fought over them, I seem to remember; and they were appearing on ebay for riciculous amounts of money.

I do love my Casino bags though; they are huge, very tough and have nice woven handles.

Don't you think Anya Hindmarch for Sainsbury's is a bit obvious though?

There is something delightfully discreet about the showing off of foreign supermarket bags . It could almost pass off as unconscious .

However Anna I really don't think you would consioder it chic to use foreign carrier bags in Paris (i.e. Morrisons or Somerfield).

Common consensu is there is a league table of supermarkets in the UK:

Waitrose
Sainsbos
Tesco
Morrisons
Asda
Somerfield

What's the French equiv? Where would Casino bbe for instance?

I remember that madness re Anya Hindmarch machine. nearly as mad as the stampede and injuirys when Primark opened on Oxford Street.

What's an Anya Hindmarch machine fgs? I meant bag obv.

No of course not - because there is nothing to show off about when you live in the nicer parts of Paris about having visited a town in England with a Somerfield's or a Morrison's, is there?

All these things are dependent on where you live, where you have been and what is acceptable (like I said, supermarket carrier bags are not chic, wherever they hail from, where I live - but shopping trolleys are). I'm quite partial to a few Waitrose branded packets in my kitchen cupboards .

I've no idea who would find a Casino bag chic, but doubtless someone somewhere would!

Oh, I missed your point.

Supermarkets/hypermarkets are not nearly as socially segmented here in France as they are in the UK.

Monoprix is the chicest supermarket (town centres) but it is nothing like Waitrose - the range of quality and price points is much broader.

Don't care how chic Casino is, I've had their bags 3 years now, and they're still going strong.

I even gave birth to DS in one in't middle o't motorway.

I made up that last bit.

Lol - you must have thought I asked you which were the chicest supermarket carrier bags!

Love the fact (and also exasperated by tbh) the fact that the UK has such an entrenched class system that it also applies to supermarkets.

I am considered a hideous snob in my household because I ignore the Morrisons and Asda a mile away from my house, and go to a Sainsbos and Waitrise miles away.