Shopping Green
What is it, about a year now that grocery stores have been selling “cloth” bags for groceries? I quickly jumped on board because I hate the plastic bags. Environmental concerns aside (and there are plenty of those!), I hate how they cut into my hands as I carry them if they are heavily loaded, or how they spontaneously rip and spill their contents, and how they seem to multiply like bunnies around my house.
Recently I noticed that one of my preferred grocery stores has come out with some designer bags, and they had me drooling. But I haven’t purchased any because, well, I already have enough bags for even my $300 grocery trips.
But one of my on-line friends recently has had the opportunity to design a bag for her local grocery store…and if she wins the contest, her family gets $1000 in free groceries. And I’ve got to say…if she does win, I’m going to ask her to buy some bags for me and ship them to me. Because they are really cute.
Isn’t it cute? If you want to read about the symbolism that is used in it, please go read Jamin’s post about the contest. Well if it is going to win, you need to vote for it!
Now, just in case cuteness alone isn’t enough to get you to vote for this bag, let me tell you a bit about “Jamin.” Jamin is the mom of 3 children, and she homeschools. She had lived in Las Vegas, which she hated because of the gambling, prostitution, and smoking EVERYWHERE. So when her husband got a job in another state half way across the country, she was SO happy.
That is…until they tried to sell their house. Her husband moved for the job, and she stayed behind with the kids to sell the house. But the real estate market in Las Vegas is terrible. When I was last selling a house in 2004-2005 we had well over 100 showings, and I was going nuts trying to keep the house clean. Well Jamin had enough showings on her house in a YEAR that she could count them on one hand–maybe two. Yikes! All that time, her hubby was in Texas, and she and the kids hardly got to see him.
They finally decided to rent out the house, and she moved with her husband. And 3 months later, their renter lost his job and backed out of the one year lease agreement. So now her family is paying to maintain 2 houses without any rental income.
So you can see that having $1000 in grocery money would be REALLY helpful for them. So please…VOTE. You can vote once a day until May.
Thank you!
Tags: environmentalism, Home school