My local recycling office hands out free bags made from plastic bottles. They’re strong and I can carry lots of groceries in them on my walk from the checkout to my car. It also makes me look macho for carrying bags of groceries rather than wheeling them across a parking lot with a shopping cart.

You must be new here ;)

I get basically the same ones from HEB in Texas. 99 cents a bag and they get probably 100-200 uses before they wear through or break. And that’s with lots of fairly rough wear and tear (heavy items, etc). Plus you can get them for free quite often—they give out at lot on Earth Day and Arbor Day. They’re good bags and…

Honestly, what are you doing to them that you have to clean them so much? I grocery shop with mine, everything from produce to laundry detergent and I can’t recall ever having to really clean one. Maybe once if some ice cream got a little melty or something, but flip it inside out and wipe down was more than adequate.…

If they’re nice things, the bag doesn’t matter. What sucks is when the clothing has stains, tears, etc., even if it is 90% good. Poor and struggling people don’t want big ass ketchup stains on our shirts and moth-eaten sweaters, either.

We have some of these as well and have been using them regularly for years. I like the bit of extra structure for packing and unpacking, and I’m less likely to forget a stray lime at the bottom. Then we just fold them up into a neat little stack that we hide against a cabinet.

Holy cow, I think all the suburbanites with cars in this thread are skimming past the other points here. No one’s hating on your trunk, guys. You do you. HOWEVER, the freebie bags and otherwise giant structured ones from TJ’s or whatever? Almost IMPOSSIBLE to clean. The cloth ones are way easier to just toss in the…

Yeah that’s all I thought as I read this...it’s just for people who live in the city, even though that’s never explicitly stated. Not every Lifehacker article has to be for everybody. And even though this is a very low-stakes problem that doesn’t really matter, it’s funny how tone deaf it sounds to the vast majority…

True story, this annoys every rookie rapper. Its hilarious after I do a recording session with someone “hungry” and its “that’s what I sound like?”. Where things get real weird though, most people don’t like the sound of their own voice, so when I get told I have a good voice, I give them the “what you talkin bout…

I have twin sons, and one day, one of them heard a recording of himself and was so surprised at how different he sounds. We then explained that each person sounds different from how we think we sound. He then wondered aloud why his brother sounded the same in the recording as he does normally, and NumbersGal and I…

My voice is always shockingly deep. It throws me off to hear feedback while I’m online in a voicechat sort of thing.

Well, I think he’s GRRREAT!

My voice as I hear it:

You’re a mean one, Mr SimuLord

Whenever I get asked “what’s one thing you’d change about yourself”, I always say “I want a voice like the late Thurl Ravenscroft.” Because I think I sound like the pimply-faced teenager from The Simpsons.

People say my voice is really attractive and I’m just like “... you’re into some messed up stuff then.”

I did this....Before:

me in the mirror: You’re an ok lookin dude

Amazing. Ordinarily, I think I sound like Mr Peterson from The Bob Newhart Show. When I do this, however, I sound exactly like Gregory Peck in The Guns of Navarone. Well...from now on, I’m walking around with magazines pressed to the side of my head All The Time. :)

when i hear my own voice in a recording