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CommonShore posted:The thing is when the sales tax on your groceries is more than the cost of those bags, you never really give a gently caress. The UK, home of 20% VAT, brought in a 5 pence plastic bag tax. It cut plastic bag usage by 80% in the first month, and 83% over the first 6 months.. Nudge theory works.
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And in stores that give you a discount for reusable bags(more and more places have started taking off 5 or 10 cents, either for the entire transaction or per bag), you're effectively paying to use plastic.Stoatbringer posted:Why would you have glue sticks and not a glue gun? WHY? 
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Oct 23, 2016 19:28
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Pasco posted:The UK, home of 20% VAT, brought in a 5 pence plastic bag tax. It cut plastic bag usage by 80% in the first month, and 83% over the first 6 months.. I find for my usage what cuts it more is having to decide how many bags I'll need, not the cost itself. I go "Uh... 3?" and if that's not enough it's less hassle to just carry something without a bag than it is to go buy another one (because I probably don't have change).
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Oct 23, 2016 20:14
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FrozenVent posted:Waaaaallllaaaaaaa Just like a piece-of-poo poo animal on the floor.
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Oct 23, 2016 20:15
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PubicMice posted:Where in the hell do you live and/or shop where you have to pay for plastic bags? Most stores literally give those things away! Welcome to California, Comrade.
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Oct 23, 2016 20:17
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Iron Crowned posted:Xactos are the best way, easily cuts through that first layer of plastic like it was butter, and if you hurt yourself opening it that way you deserve to bleed out.  Lies. Tin snips are better.
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Oct 23, 2016 22:59
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gently caress y'all need to argue angle grinders or bandsaws or I don't know diy laser cutters or something. This scrub level scissors exacto bullshit y'all are into just doesn't cut it for me I'm sorry.
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Oct 23, 2016 23:08
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When I get a product in a clamshell package, I take a blowtorch to it until it melts, then once I'm high off the burning plastic fumes I pull the product out of the molten puddle using bread clips Walla
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Oct 23, 2016 23:11
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all of the grocery stores here that used to have an incentive to use reusable bags got rid of it  it was something like taking 5 cents off for every bag you brought.
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Oct 24, 2016 00:32
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My county (in WA state) banned plastic bags altogether, and you have to pay 5 cents per paper bag. We like the environment.
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Oct 24, 2016 01:54
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Pasco posted:The UK, home of 20% VAT, brought in a 5 pence plastic bag tax. It cut plastic bag usage by 80% in the first month, and 83% over the first 6 months.. I use paper and use them at least 2 to 3 times before sending them to recycling. I hate re-usable bags. One always misplaces them and I typically need 6 or so bags of groceries per week. If I don't have paper, I'll have to buy bags for recycling. Those clear bags are nonsense. I think plain old paper works best. Paper makes me happy.
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Oct 24, 2016 02:05
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Haifisch posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCsdflRCoXk "Dave, honey? I'm home! While you were fussing with that beer can and paperclip and lighter and poo poo I ran out to Dollarama and got a glue gun for two bucks"
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Oct 24, 2016 02:46
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Pasco posted:The UK, home of 20% VAT, brought in a 5 pence plastic bag tax. It cut plastic bag usage by 80% in the first month, and 83% over the first 6 months.. It helps that in the UK we never actually know the pre-sales-tax prices of stuff.
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Oct 24, 2016 20:10
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Fart.Bleed.Repeat. posted:Look for Postmaster General's Seal Yeah, but they can get a real mailbox and put it inside the microwave shell and that is I think technically fine. LAW HACKED
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Oct 24, 2016 21:06
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I hope you can set it up so it goes ding when you have mail.
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Oct 25, 2016 13:40
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ChickenOfTomorrow posted:Welcome to California, Comrade. Seriously. I didn't realize that other states didn't do this. It's $.10 here per plastic bag, and loving 7/11 charges $.25 (in Los Angeles at least). A crock of bullshit.
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Oct 25, 2016 13:56
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Lifehack: be an adult and pay for things you actually use. It might not improve your life per se but will make you look less like a pissbaby.
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Jerry Cotton posted:Lifehack: be an adult and pay for things you actually use. It might not improve your life per se but will make you look less like a pissbaby.
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zedprime posted:That's the opposite of a lifehack. A lifehack is when you pay for something you don't use and you keep it in a cupboard until a few years later when the internet tells you all you need is one of those, some scissors, and some super glue, and you can make your own air filter. I am my own air filter   
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Oct 25, 2016 15:58
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E: Lifehack: don't use a Nokia.
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Oct 25, 2016 15:58
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For a little perspective, in Texas I'm viewed as a shoeless hippie loser for bringing my own bags to the grocery. A thing I do for convenience and not the environment cause I hate plastic bags. Bonus is people working bagboy have no idea what to do with my reusable bags so I get to put my own groceries in them. No crushed chips AND I can find my shampoo. Walla. Lifehacked.
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Oct 25, 2016 18:02
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fizzymercy posted:For a little perspective, in Texas I'm viewed as a shoeless hippie loser for bringing my own bags to the grocery. A thing I do for convenience and not the environment cause I hate plastic bags. Bonus is people working bagboy have no idea what to do with my reusable bags so I get to put my own groceries in them. No crushed chips AND I can find my shampoo. Walla. Lifehacked. I definitely can't see why the clerks would find you insufferable when you complain about chip bags and where they put the shampoo
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Oct 25, 2016 20:46
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People in America have special Enriques to put their shopping into bags?
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Oct 25, 2016 20:51
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corn in the bible posted:I definitely can't see why the clerks would find you insufferable when you complain about chip bags and where they put the shampoo I doubt he actively complains about it to the clerk but I definitely notice a difference between a bagger who has to load things in as fast as possible to move the line along, and the huge grocery store where I have to bag things myself but can do it with more care
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Paladinus posted:People in America have special Enriques to put their shopping into bags? Public Enriques are one of the few remaining bastions of socialism in that hellhole.
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Oct 25, 2016 21:03
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du -hast posted:Seriously. I didn't realize that other states didn't do this. It's $.10 here per plastic bag, and loving 7/11 charges $.25 (in Los Angeles at least). Hahaha, I can't think of a single food mart in my area that even gives the option of paper bags. Don't think I've seen anyone with reusable ones, either. Wal-Mart essentially owns this state, though, so it's not surprising.
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Oct 25, 2016 21:20
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someone awful. posted:I doubt he actively complains about it to the clerk but I definitely notice a difference between a bagger who has to load things in as fast as possible to move the line along, and the huge grocery store where I have to bag things myself but can do it with more care really it just comes down to how good/lovely the bagger is. back when i did it at 17 i could load those bags better (less poo poo like crushed chips) than 90% of people at 3x the speed. but one of my coworkers bagged at roughly the same speed with the "fuckit just throw it in there" mentality. Lifehack: work a lovely job in a service industry and learn to do a simple skill way better than 90+% of the population!
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Rysithusiku posted:really it just comes down to how good/lovely the bagger is. back when i did it at 17 i could load those bags better (less poo poo like crushed chips) than 90% of people at 3x the speed. but one of my coworkers bagged at roughly the same speed with the "fuckit just throw it in there" mentality. Look everyone, it's a Public Enrique!
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Oct 26, 2016 00:33
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Meanwhile, in Iowa, I see stores that have "NO BAGS" signs on the door that will kick you out for trying to use your own bag because they assume you're just using it to shoplift things.
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Oct 26, 2016 01:35
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I wish more grocery stores gave out paper bags, I heat my house with a woodstove and paper bags are like free loving tinder.
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Oct 26, 2016 04:38
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bongwizzard posted:I wish more grocery stores gave out paper bags, I heat my house with a woodstove and paper bags are like free loving tinder. I have two paper bags and they're both filled with plastic bags that I haven't done anything with. That's my lifehack.
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Oct 26, 2016 04:56
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bongwizzard posted:I wish more grocery stores gave out paper bags, I heat my house with a woodstove and paper bags are like free loving tinder. Call your local stores and see if any will let you have some empty freight boxes. A lot stores are willing, you don't have to buy anything, just pick them up and corrugated cardboard makes great tinder. One shopping cart full of flattened boxes is a hell of a lot of tinder.
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Oct 26, 2016 07:07
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My dad has become infected with lifehacks, there's a pan on the counter with a dryer sheet in it help
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Olive Garden tonight! posted:My dad has become infected with lifehacks, there's a pan on the counter with a dryer sheet in it Nothing to do for it now Cut his head off with a folded piece of aluminium foil, stuff the wound with bread tags and shove a StykTM (a stick, but it costs 24.99 and syncs up with an app) through his heart after locating it using a complex sequence of measurements involving his nipples and a compass, then burn the body inside your own home in a hastily-assembled viking funeral. Start the fire by using a full bottle of water to focus the sun's light onto a pack of matches then escape by jimmying open the window next to the front door with a shoe and two halves of a tennis ball.
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Oct 26, 2016 08:00
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Somfin posted:Nothing to do for it now I only carry one-half of a tennis ball in my EDC, from when I cut a tennis ball in half to open a car door. Any idea where I can get a second half?
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Oct 26, 2016 09:38
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experienceBeej posted:I only carry one-half of a tennis ball in my EDC, from when I cut a tennis ball in half to open a car door. Any idea where I can get a second half? pull the one holding your dads keys off of the wall
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Oct 26, 2016 09:40
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Does your dad have a skeleton?
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A FUCKIN CANARY!! posted:Meanwhile, in Iowa, I see stores that have "NO BAGS" signs on the door that will kick you out for trying to use your own bag because they assume you're just using it to shoplift things.  Your state/country is weird.
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Karate Bastard posted:Does your dad have a skeleton? Used to until he drank the HF.
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