Ecofriendly Shopping Bag Giveaway
I have a confession to make. While I LOVE my reusable shopping bags (including my new one), I tend to be a bit forgetful when it comes to actually taking them shopping. I USE them for all kinds of things. Like transporting my knitting, taking stuff to the gym, packing travel snacks in. And I use them at the supermarket. Most of the time.
The good thing is when I forget to take them to the supermarket, I am able to make use of those bags for rubbish and other things. So I don’t feel too bad, as long as I don’t collect too many plastic bags.
Where I feel like I’m letting the side down environmentally is department store shopping. Small boutique style stores (which I don’t actually shop in that often anyway) still provide some wonderfully sturdy plastic bags that can be used over and over again. But stores like Kmart and Target (etc of course) tend to provide really flimsy bags that tear easily and don’t have handles that make them very convenient for rubbish disposal. So they really DO end up as useless landfill.
I keep thinking it would make sense for me to take my own sturdy bags. I know I *should* keep them in the car. 
Part of my problem at the moment is that most of my “shopping” bags are in use!!!!
Anyway, I’ve been thinking it would be handy to have a reusable bag that I could easily carry around in my handbag. Then it would always be with me. Now, if you’ve seen my handbag (and what mother doesn’t have an overflowing handbag????), you’ll understand that fitting something into my handbag is no easy feat!!!!
So I was pretty excited when I saw these an article on these Ecosilk bags on Australian Women Online recently. They have a range but the ones that caught my eye were the rosette bags that come in my FAVOURITE colour!!!!
I took one for a spin while we were away and it was FABULOUS!!!! I used it 3 times (so saved 3 plastic bags so far) and felt quite glam walking down the mall/shopping centre with my bag. And no horrible plastic cutting into my fingers either. 
It certainly made me smile!!!!
I’m thinking these might make some nice Christmas gifts for hard to buy for people this year.
Shall I get to the GIVEAWAY part now?
Well, I do happen to have one of these bags in my favourite colour to giveaway:
Isn’t it beautiful?
All you need to do to enter is fill in the form below answering the question about what other colours the rosette ecobags come in. They have some fabulous names for some of their colours too! Why the question? Well, ecosilk bags were kind enough to donate this bag for me to giveaway (no, they are not paying me to write any of this and I contacted them because I LOVED their bags so much).
Entries for this giveaway will close Wednesday 7th May and I’ll announce the winner as part of my Smiley Saturday post on Saturday 10th May. And yes, you can enter no matter where in the world you live (as long as Australia Post will allow me to send there). They will also ship overseas (if I understand their site correctly) so if you don’t win, you don’t HAVE to miss out. 
Let me know what you think. Do you like the look of them? Is this the kind of thing you would find useful?
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Very funny and true.
Edited by Lightening to remove answers…. that’s all I can remember.
They look really nice. So much more appealing than the green bags that everyone has from the supermarket.
These are great. Like you, I often don’t have a bag when I need one. These are ideal to pop into your handbag (or one in all your handbags
) and have with you all the time. Great find!
These bags look absolutely gorgeous, I will have to check out the site properly and book mark it to order a few when I get my job (which will hopefully be soon)
I almost forgot to add, they look as useful as they are lovely to look at!
They’re so pretty! And perfect for spring!
I do the same thing - I always have my reusable bags in the wrong place. But these are gorgeous.
They look superb and also a bag to be proud of! A bag to match each outfit and shoes too if one is so inclined!!!! Its also good that at the end of their life they can be sent to Melbourne to be recycled again into building materials! Just a tad pity they are not completely made in Oz!
Another great find by Lightening!
Those bags look lovely. I’m sure I’ve seen a similar fabric in Spotlight, I’ll check next time I’m in town. Maybe I could make a couple for stuffing into my handbag for when I’m not shopping but suddenly remember there’s no milk or bread at home, I could do french seams to be sure they wouldn’t unravel suddenly halfway home. (Just thinking out loud here…)
I have a couple of bags I bought at Howard Storage World - similar style and fold up in a little bag - I always keep 2 or 3 in my handbag and often people are amazed when I pull them out. However, now that I’ve seen these new bags, in those yummy colours, I might just have to “accidently” lose my other bags :-).
Libby
those are sweet.
These are gorgeous - what a great find. I’m the same as you - my green shopping bags are always being used for other things and I don’t always remember to take them with me. I will have to get one (or a few) to keep in my handbag.
I’m really glad you all like them.
Thanks for your comments so far.
sweet. I really like the colours, tasty!
Gorgeous bags!! I need to get my 1st reusable bag soon!!
they look great - I love the colours too.
Aren’t they beautiful? I love the names of the colours, too!
just catching up on blogs and what a great idea, have save the link for when there is some available $$$$ and im going to get myself some of these.
nicole
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