There are four main circumstances where I end up with a new reusable bag:
1. I've used all the ones I had in my car and brought them inside with groceries, and forgot to bring them back out to the car, so I either have none or not enough when I go grocery shopping.
2. I have reusable bags in my car, but it's cold and I forgot to bring them in to the store with me, so I go "F it" and get a new one.
3. I am shopping without my car (e.g. at work), or just randomly stopped in somewhere, and have no reusable bags with me, and end up getting more stuff than I can carry without a bag.
4. I have ordered groceries etc by delivery, and they have delivered my order in a bunch of reusable bags (this can also happen on food delivery or pickup orders where the restaurant uses reusable bags for their orders which happens occasionally).
Just those four scenarios alone would account for an accretion of reusable bags at a rate of 1+ per week, I would think.
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