Jaileen, DH and I carried our then one year old DS across the hot sand of a beach in one of the LLBean canvas bags. (We didn't want him to burn his tender baby feet!) That's how I remember how old they are! As old as DS +1 year!

i opened a cabinet at my mother's house and was deluged with plastic grocery bags, each one tied in a neat knot and shoved into an overstuffed kitchen cabinet.

bj, I recall that for years, my mom had a drawer in the kitchen that was nothing but paper grocery bags, neatly folded and placed in the drawer standing up. It was like that my whole childhood and beyond--I did not understand what a luxury it was to have room for that in the kitchen!