Green Valley Bags, Cloth Shopping Bag: Review

There is a global movement for civilization to become "greener". The world is concerned with pollution and resource consumption, as well we should be. Unfortunately, it's not always easy to become "greener", especially when you can't afford the price of the more environmentally-friendly products on the market. Luckily, there is one "greener" choice that you can make for a relatively low price... cloth shopping bags!

Cloth shopping bags aren't a new invention. There have always been cloth shopping bags and there have always been people using cloth shopping bags. But, have you ever found a cloth shopping bag that would stand up, on its own, like a paper bag, hold more than three to five of those awful little plastic grocery store bags, and yet cost you only $1.25 per bag? Well, I have!

One day I came home from my weekly, grocery, shopping trip and just couldn't believe how many plastic bags were littering my kitchen floor. I'm sure many of you have been there. You bring all the bags in and deposit them into the kitchen so that you can unload everything and put it all away. Well, have you ever noticed how one bag will have three items in it and another will have one, and so on and so forth? What's up with that?

When I pulled a lonely jar of of peanut butter out of its very own personal, plastic bag, I realized that I hated plastic grocery bags with a passion that could rival my annoyance with a toddler's temper tantrum any day. I mean, come on, you can only re-use so many of those plastic bags before you're overrun with them and they are flowing out of your house like termites. I like to use them for the bathroom trash cans, but I only have two bathrooms...

At that moment, I decided it was time to look into cloth shopping bags. But, I didn't want anything huge and bulky. I scoured the internet for just the right bag, at the right price. Unfortunately, I couldn't find anything that I liked well enough to use all the time and something that would fit the budget of a stay-at-home mom. Then I saw them, sitting there on the screen, looking all perfect and oh, so use-able... Green Valley Bags!