I just realised I have a hierarchy of plastic/carrier bags...

[SpringComeHereYouFabulousSeaso]

...there's no hope for me is there.

Of course I have had one for years, I just didn't realise:

Crap bags (standard Tesco etc)
Slightly less crap (ocado)
Nice (marks and spencers ones you pay for, also home sense bags)
Best (joules, monsoon, anything made of thick paper)

Dh today took a meal round to a friend, I suggested he took it in a plastic bag in case of leaks and he put it in a nice one . I should probably LTB but in reality I managed to bite my tongue in the face of the hierarchy of bags revelation.

I do this though I now have a small bag folded in its own wallet that stays in my handbag irs from primark fir a quid my bag I use for work for my bottle of water and lunch box is a cotton one with slush puppy on it

Oh, and I love IKEA bags for everything. :)

I remember a particularly unpleasant friend-of-a-friend at Jin, who always carried his stuff round in the same Prada-branded paper carrier bag. I'd have sworn he ironed the thing. Clearly a knob.

My favourite bag is a reusable one from M&S with pictures of fig rolls on it.

DH used to take things to work in Netto bags. Mainly so that a snobby lady he worked with would have to walk around with it to deliver whatever was needed.

I have a Radley fold up nylon bag in my handbag.....

If I had to use a carrier, a nice M&S one.

I definitely have a hierarchy, but I also have limited spacd and a practical nature so size and weight has equal value with looks and snob appeal. GAP bags have a special function as the place where I collect tatty/stained/ripped clothes for fabric recycling. Paper bags with rope handles and posh brands go to the poncy hospice shop which collects them to use for their overpriced second hand frocks - now they have really got the hierarchy thing nailed. Good quality plastic bags go to the hippy bakers for reuse. Large John Lewis bags live in the laundry bin for colour sorting.

It reminds me of when I was about 14, so 1993-ish - a girl came into a German lesson and said she couldn't find a decent bag (i.e. from River Island) to bring her stuff in so she had had to resort to a Sainsbury's bag. Or something like that...

We try to avoid plastic bags but still get them when we do shopping online, even if it's supposedly bag-less.

At the moment they are all in a bag on top of the freezer; yes, there are the 'good' bags from Marks, the rubbish Coop bags and the mid-range Ocado bags.

Yes!!
If I have a particularly nice one, I tend to hide it so that dh cant use it for rubbish!!

I put DSs packed lunch in a poncey bag once (one of several I crammed in our suitcase and bought back from Disneyworld, in a planned stealth-boast bag stylee). To my surprise he bought it back, apparently he had told the teacher he needed to take it back as 'my Mum likes that bag it came from America'. Oh the shame.

I learned my lesson. Now I don't overdo it, use John Lewis or similar doesn't mention the house of commons bag used for school play costume

I'm showing this to dh, bless you all.

DH and I had our honeymoon in Egypt. Lots of the market traders used to display western carrier bags on their stalls; it was almost a status symbol!

There we're asda, tesco and morrisons bags proudly pinned up! So I've started collecting high end shop bags like Harrods, Hamley's and Selfridges bags in case we ever go back to use as currency/bargaining power!

My DH once sent DD to school with a Spar bag. Bottom of the bag hierarchy. The shame.

Yes yes and yes to all of the above.

I have a similar hierarchy for boxes.

iPhone/fancy chocolate style hard boxes

Interesting indies.

Shoeboxes - hard

Shoeboxes usual weight

Cereal etc boxes.

Oh, goody, not just me then! Have been known to empty out King Bag in an attempt to find a lower hierarchy Tesco/Sains carrier for the collection and disposal of dog poop! Seemed terribly wrong to use a naice bag!

Oh lord yes I'm with you. I've always done it without thinking. It's just instinctive.

Dd1 has her PE kit in an Apple store bag

I have a hierarchy of bags too.

But here's a funny thing. I'm in NI so for the past year we've had to pay 5p per bag, so unless it's a dire emergency I don't get new bags each time I shop. But I still have one of those IKEA plastic bag holders packed full of plastic bags. I don't have more of them or less of them than I did a year ago. Just about the same. I wonder if there is some sort of plastic bag breeding programme going on in my kitchen?

I have an inverse hierarchy I think. It feels too contrived to send anything out the house in a deliberately thought about carrier bag so everything ends up in Asda's.

that is, to clarify, obviously I am reusing them, but then I was doing that anyway.

I have another category: big strong bags to take stuff to charity shops in.

Ooh yes I do this too.

I was really pleased when I came across a long forgotten stash of the M&S bags printed with lilies
It's so much harder to give the delivery driver back the useful Ocado bags than the flimsy Sainsburys bags.

Teenagers really understand bag status, the look of horror on a teen's face when complaining about having to use a low grade bag and being told to just turn it inside out!

Best of all are forrin bags.
Out shopping with the Man:
Him "You could have bought that back at the village."
Me "Yes, but then it wouldn't have come in a Galeries Lafayette bag."
He is the Ex now.

I get stupidly excited when I'm given a super shiny STRONG Lakeland carrier bag! I stand in the checkout queue trying to guess which size my purchase has 'earned' :)

I have had a hierarchy since Chelsea a Girl bags were the requirement. Three colours in three broad stripes, I think?

I love the person up thread who uses the appropriate bag for returns to the appropriate shop. As though it's a proof of purchase. I used to do the same, "Can I please return this? I've got the bag".

And aged relatives who used to give the bag with the present in case you needed to exchange it. Ha ha! Have you ever seen a shop person care?!

As an aside, I have a friend who will bring things round in designer paper bags and point them out. Surely that's wrong and there should be a degree of nonchalance.

It was Beneton bags when I was at school. Very much in demand.

I use supermarket carriers as bin liners.
We save small M&s or Esprit bags for packed lunch on school trips.
bag with folds and handles is acceptable for transporting things.
bag with drawstring good for PE.
Paper bag with fabric handles good for gifts.

Oh yes, I def do this!

The other week DH found my stash of 'posh' bags under the bed, which I save for special purposes/posterity - nice thick paper Hobbs Jigsaw etc ones.

He said 'you do realise you're not 15 any more and you don't need to take cool carrier bags to school?'