totes implosion: how many tote bags do you own in this age of consumerist bag-awareness?

more than six.

i had more than six, but i lost one or two along the way, so now i just have five, but maybe more are hiding out in the closets?? some of them were freebies with conferences or with products. a couple of them were purchased, like my arty high-colour silhouettes Strand bookstore bag and the teal one i got at target in long island once because it has a neat photo of a bike on an nyc street on it. right now my fave tote is the academy records one :)

i think like half of ours are fairway/trader joes bags

i have a great one from the 2005 Cdn federati0n for the humanities and s0cial sciences congress that perfectly fits a box of arm&hammer cat litter and then still fits over my shoulder. i also love my tofino co-op bag bc it is from my mom and bc it's just black with white letters.

more than six, conference swag

I don't have any tote bags.

oh i forgot 'zero'! i'm sorry

you should probably go find a tote bag so you can vote in this poll

B-b-but then this poll would be encouraging consumerism!

I think on the contrary. We only own bags so that we don't waste plastic when we go to the supermarket

Actually I just realised that I have a couple of those 'free supermarket bag for life' things.

xp If you never bought anything, you'd never need a bag

i had 3 but i threw out 2 because they were getting old and gross. i need more totes

totes POLLair

if i never bought anything i'd die of starvation

I have a special place in my heart for muslin tote bags and have finally trained myself to use them for lugging my shopping back home. Amongst them, I've got:

Gucci pop-up store tote, YSL tote, black tote from MODERN ART gallery given out at Frieze Art Fair, Frieze Art Fair tote, Hackney recycling tote, 50% Normal/50% Designer tote, hot pink support-local-shops Lamb's Conduit Street tote...

Since I fucking LOATHE the cult of the handbag, I love to take them out to openings and parties instead of a massive fucking ladypurse. Bonus: apart from the local bag, all were lovely freebies and they beat the hell out of promo t-shirts.

have a couple from the chicago library, one from stanley's (produce store in town), one from IGA that was a leftover from another roommate, and another I don't know where from.

totes! i was a band/promo t-shirt girl in my 20s but now i'm a tote girl with more refined fashion sense (lolll)
oh i forgot about the rad day-glo orange promo one from the canadian centre for architecture!
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Does one that I knit 90% of and then got bored with count?

I did finish the one I made as a gift tho

http://images4.ravelrycache.com/uploads/Abbigail/9838544/IMG_0256_medium.JPG

lol knitted gifts

aw totes cute

I think it was from TJ Maxx.

ah haaa, I was just thinking about starting a "what does your reusable grocery bag look like" thread

9

my current favorite bag is "Salem County Improvement Authority Solid Waste Division: We're More Than Just A Landfill!" Jersey Pride!

Amazing!!

9?? ian i think you own more totes than me even

i have SO. MANY. TOTES. omg.

way more than 10.

Let's see, a cool one from Drawn Quarterly, a Food Bank bag, one of those standard green eco totes, two from trader joes and two from this synagogue where my wife briefly worked so I guess that'd be more than six.

we have a lot but this is my favourite

http://secure.giantrobot.com/images/images/products/2006-10-02/05.jpg

it is called 'bunny eater'

I have like 1000 tote bags because
1) I am a teacher/professor/instructor of people
2) I like to have a bag for every occasion (big grocery run, small grocery run, coupla folders, books/folders, records, records and folders, records/snacks/folders, etc)
3) Not only am I a teacher, I have different bags for office days and teaching days, so
4) I am the sort of person who likes to have all things on hand at all times, so I always have a stapler AND extra staples...in my tote bag

Lots and lots of tote bags

My favorite is my Boxcar Children grocery bag or my orange Poetry Month bag with the unicorn on it

6+ I am totes crazy

My favorite is my "Whats The Time Mr Wolf" tote I save for special toting missions

http://www.entertainmentearth.com/images/%5CAUTOIMAGES%5CAU11995lg.jpg

I forgot that I also have this tote of an "evil cupcake" that I won in a trivia contest. I keep my current knitting projects in it.

Boxcar Children grocery bag

boxcar children as in the poor orphans who lived in a boxcar and scavenged at the dump for tin cups to drink out of and kept their milk refrigerated behind a rock down by the creek? because if so i want one.

I have a London 2012 tote bag I keep meaning to sell on eBay.

Loads. My wife hoards them.

I used to have loads, but now I just go the giant handbag route, with some of those sturdy jute bags from Tesco for actual grocery shopping.

I have at least five even though I hardly ever use them, which is a bit stupid really. They're mostly quite small - maybe I'd use them more if they were bigger and could hold the excessive amounts of shopping I tend to buy. (Then again, one is a giant sturdy sack-like thing which just slides off my shoulders, so something in between would be nicer.)

Most of them were free or free with purchases over a certain amount, but there were also the times I was at Oxfam buying an armful of books and then realised they don't do plastic bags any more but I could buy a tote, or when I saw Nisennenmondai and bought CDs from the merch desk and was drunk enough to think their shitty overpriced printed tote was a better way to carry them home than using my hands, etc.

I have more than six, but never remember to take them to the grocery store with me (That's going to change this morning, I swear). I've been using one that I got at a conference as a temporary briefcase/lunch bag and it's pretty embarrassing.

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abbott! your tote reminds me of http://www.muffinfilms.com/

I have. So many. Totes.

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Have a bunch, but don't use them. I need the plastic bags to put cat poop in.