Hi Nancy,

Indeed. :) We mostly use the reuseable bags now for grocery
shopping, but our stockpile of paper ones does get good use,
too... :)

We don't, except at Whole Foods and the farmer's market.

Probably RH>> should use them more, other places as we've a good collection.

We have our collection (of reusables and some paper bags) in
one of those reusable bags, and just grab that when we leave to
go shopping....

We keep an insulated bag in the truck, plus one that's double
sided--one side is insulated, the other isn't.

I've seen that latter one... :) I do also have an insulated bag in
the trunk of my car... I've used that mostly when doing shopping on trips... or to keep frozen foods on a hot day when up at the Pond,
since that's a half hour trip... It folds up so it doesn't take up too much space... :)

Ours do as well--found the double bag at Aldi and keep hoping they'll
have it again. We got 2 but the buckle on one needs replacing, not as
easy a job as it sounds because of how the bag is constructed.

the way out the door. Got a cheap, almost disposable, bag at W-M today
as part of a Nabisco promo. Hey, it's a bag and if NC does away with plastic, all reuseable bags will be on call.

We've got some bags I've gotten from promos... plus I've been known to
buy one more Wegmans bag if I forgot to grab one or did some unplanned shopping.... One genealogy conference I went to handed out materials
in a (purple) Wegmans bag, which was added to the collection... :)

I've got a red and a 100th anniversary Wegman's bags, wouldn't mind
adding to the collection, eventually. (G)

There's been legislation here in NYS to ban the plastic bags, I
don't think it's gone into effect yet, though... not a total
ban, but supposedly charging the consumers for using them
instead... we rarely get those...

They're making noises about it here in NC too. Guess Wal-Mart,
Target and other places will have to figure out an alternative
to the plastic.

More and more I see the storebrand-blazoned reusable bags
available for a nominal cost... it does make a reasonable
solution to the problem... And there's nothing that says that
you have to use their bag, either... Our supply of Wegmans
ones would work just fine... ;)

As does our supply of this and that. For the farmer's market, I
usually grab my Wegman's bag for the goodies and a canvas bag for the produce.

That works... :)

I've grabbed my Trader Joe's bag in place of the Wegman's from time to
time. Also seen another Wegman's bag from other shoppers occaisionally.

at least one more major move, but that never did happen...

It's NB>>> becoming less and less likely that we'll make a major move now,

too... :)

Remember, never say never again--you may make a surprise move at
some point.

True... which is why I only said "less and less likely"... ;)

Settled in pretty good in Rochester now?

Yup... and now have sufficient medical issues and relationships with
good doctors and need of good hospitals that that becomes a factor on
how feasible a move would be... We'd for years thought about retiring
to the North Country, near Boyd Pond... but the medical care just
isn't as good there....

That's one reason we're staying here for now; we've both got good
medical care. Got several major hospitals in the area, including the VA
one in Durham.

I think Mommy must have relied on me for a lot... the spacing
was not that different than in your family... 2 years younger,

Helping as much as a 3 year old can--fetching diapers and such
like. I didn't help raise younger siblings as they were too

close RH>> in age for me.

I was doing a lot more than just fetching diapers and such... at
2, that might have been the case, though....

I suspect I did a lot of diaper fetching with at least the 2 directly under me. The last one was born about 3 weeks before I started kindergarten (she was also a premie) so I suspect I didn't do as much.

I can see that... Different family dynamics...

We all did/do what fit the family the best.

Quite so. The new owners put in a deli section which was quite
the innovation for the area. There had been a deli in town but
it closed a good number of years before the store put theirs
in.

So the store was filling in an empty niche... :)

A well appreciated one, especially for those that didn't want

to RH>>> cook. (G)

Or who needed the extra help... :)

As probably a number of folks in that town did. I suspect the
rotisserie chickens were big sellers.

Probably... :)

Easy for those that couldn't do (or didn't want to do) much real
cooking, especially if they were single. Cooking for one is hard but a
pre roasted whole chicken will last for several meals.

And can provide a variety of meals from it, potentially... or just be something to pick meat off of each time... :) I grabbed a rotisserie chicken to take with me for the Elder family camping... made a chicken salad from it one day, pulled parts off it for two other meals, and brought back a container of meat off the carcase when I went home...
It did make cooking simpler.... :)

We'll probably grab one as part of the meal for the family with the new
baby next week. Told Steve we'll probably get one for ourselves too.

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Ruth
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