I started reading this late last night and got as far as Neeko saying that she was in town looking for RJ and PJday carrying porn bears, thought 'Hmm, a new MN/Christmas thread thing, curious...' and didn't twig for a couple of minutes that it's MN, it would be pombears not pornbears and thus it was probably time to go to sleep and catch up on the thread in the morning...
Slithy I was the one that posted up about the reusable shopping bags.
They're cheapest on ebay.com - if you search on reusable bag, or reusable tote loads will come up. Set the results to display in order of 'lowest price: item+postage' and you'll see them, cheapest first. There are some that are often crazy cheap (1 or 2 cents) that you have to bid on but the times are usually for a few days away so not so good if you want to buy them and be done with. (You can hide these by clicking on the 'Buy it Now' button near the top of the list).
There are quite a few that come in at 75 cents (50p-ish) including plain ones, and ones that fold up to be strawberries, clown fish or roses. If you go up to a dollar, there are loads. I've ordered several and some have come - all have been fine quality-wise - similar to the sort of thing you buy for a couple of pounds in the shops, rather than something you'd pay a tenner for but fine to pad out presents or to stick a handful in your handbag or the car for shopping at the supermarket.
If you do the same search on ebay.co.uk then the same items come up but the cheapest ones tend to be about a pound - so about double the price for the identical thing. Definitely worth going through ebay.com!