December 5, 2008 UPDATE: It’s official — our two lucky winners are Ronda G. and Joanne S. Thanks to all for participating. Everyone can be a winner at Blue Avocado when you use their special discount code: blogluv5 to receive a 5% discount on orders over $60.
The Blue Avocado Giveaway is Closed, but be sure to check out our current Great Green Giveaways listed in the middle column of this page. original post follows:
Make your move to eco chic reusable bags, or give them as wonderful holiday gifts. Compliments of Blue Avocado, two lucky readers will each receive a unique and innovative shopping bag kit, made from beautiful recycled materials. Available in three stylish colors; winners get to pick their favorite shade.
- First Prize: the Cool Kit replaces 13 plastic shopping bags, ($44.99, pic above).
- Second Prize: the Ready Kit replaces 9 plastic shopping bags, ($24.99, pic above).
Each prize includes free shipping to anywhere in the U.S.
TO ENTER: STEP 1 & 2 – first, visit Blue Avocado and check out their eco chic shopping kits. Then enter a comment on this post telling us why you’d like to win this Great Green Giveaway.
STEP 3 – Prize notification – is via email so be sure to add the following address to your email address book: m at AlternativeConsumer.com.
Entries must be received by 12n (ET), Fri, December 5.
Random Drawing takes place on Friday, December 5, 2008. Two lucky winners will be notified by email. (Don’t forget to add: m at AlternativeConsumer.com to your address book.) Winners need to reply to notification within 24 hours in order to claim their individual prize, otherwise their offer is null and void. The 2 winners’ names will also be included on this post.
Thanks for reading The Alternative Consumer — start clicking, and good luck! (One entry per person.) AltCon runs contests and giveaways all time so subscribe to our RSS feed to stay updated.
Related: previously on altCon (11.13.08)
blue avocado’s coordinated collection of reusable shopping bags
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Wow!! What a great idea. Who’d a thunk it? I currently have 3 bags I take with me but unfortunately I still have to use a lot of plastic bags to get my groceries home. This would make me feel bunches better about not taking so many plastic bags home.
We have reusable shopping bags, but I am always forgetting them in my car. These would be compact enough to fit in my purse and I wouldn’t forget since my purse goes with me. I also love the produce bags. I don’t have anything like that and it bothers me to have to use the plastic!
These bags are so pretty, especially the pods in green – these would be great to keep in my trunk for all shopping expeditions!
What a nice way to go green!
I’d like to win either one of these sets because I’ve put off buying reusable bags partly because the ones I see are so ugly! These are really cute and look like they’d be easy to remember to take along with me. Thanks for the contest!
I’m doing a pretty good job of remembering my reusable bags when I go shopping, but I’d love to have some that don’t have grocery store ads on them. The products from Blue Avocado are great looking and they seem to be a company that’s walking the walk with their concerns about carbon footprints and world impact.
These bags are so colorful and I love how they are interchangeable. I need to get the double kit so I won’t forget my bags in my trunk. I could always tote some in my purse. Down with plastic—yay green!
Thanks for the giveaway!
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We ALWAYS use our own bags to shop. Right now, we have a mish mash of canvas bags that are unsightly and difficult to tote around, which makes the whole thing an ordeal. Those Blue Avocado Bags are adorable and seem very user friendly. I would love to have them.
We have one very tired bag that we use, These are great sets to add too our eco-shopping. I like how compact they are!
How awesome are these bags!! They are sure to set a trend and for all of the right reasons! I purchased reusable bags at my local grocery store and they are black and basic:( I will be the envy of all the moms at the local grocery market here in Hershey, Pa!!!!
What a great site. I’ve been trying to go green but even my reusable bags have seen better days.
I go the grocery store at least 5 times a week and I have so many plastic bags,(I do recycle them once a month)not having so many bags under my kitchen sink would be awesome.
These are great, i won’t feel like everyone else carrying these into the store! Hope i win! :D
I would love this,one more way for me to go green.
i;ve heard about these and i’d like to try them out
I love that they are a compact (fit-together) system. I currently use canvas bags for all sorts of errands and would love to have some bags dedicated to food-shopping only. I also would love some produce bags! (I have been reusing the typical grocery store plastic produce bags over and over until they are inevitably un-reusable (torn or very dirty).) My canvas bag supply is dwindling as I have given some away to friends who are hopefully using them! ;) This package is a great prize! Thanks!
If everyone of us just cut down on one plastic bag what a wonderful world this would be. Of course, doing away with ALL plastic would be our ultimate goal.
These are so great! I’d love to add them to my arsenal of green tools! Thanks.
Very nice designs. I’d love to win so I could keep a couple and give some as Christmas presents. The whole family is trying to be greener all the time.
I’d like to win this Great Green Giveaway to make my small difference in reducing the use of plastic. I love the vegetable and cold pack bags most of all — I don’t have anything like this yet. Thanks for a great contest!
I’m always taking my own bags to grocery stores but they are big and bulky. It would be so nice to have compact ones that would fit in my purse!
I am impressed with the ingenuity of the Blue Avocado designs. My background is in journalism, and over the past two decades have written articles focusing on being more ecology-minded, including preserving and using wisely our water and petroleum resources. I would love to be blessed with the compact Blue Avocado products. Please enter me in the giveaway.
Look like cool bags. Would be a great way to cut down on throwing out bags.
I really believe that there is to much plastic sitting in landfills and I worry about what that will mean for the future. I have started using cloth bags for much of my shopping to cut down on the amount of plastic I use. Winning these would go a long way to helping me achive my goal and possibly share it with some of my friends.
these would be an awesome win because they encourage the use of reusable bags instead of using plastic bags that will just sit in landfills and cause damage to the environment
Very practical, and collapsible makes it even easier for me to be green.
I’d LOVE to win this Great Green Giveaway because not only are these bags ADORABLE, but I only have 2 cloth canvas bags for food shopping right now. These look large enough that it would complete my collection, making me no longer reliant on plastic bags for good! Thanks so much for the great contest!
I live in a part of the country where recycling has not been a big part. There is not mandatory recycling so we subscribe to a service. I would love to go to the store and not get those plastic bags!
I so, so very badly need to win this set. I seem to always be forgetting to put the “green” sacks back in the car. These are cute and clever and who could forget them? As a UT grad, I love to support Austin businesses. Fabulous Idea!
I drive a Prius but I haven’t greened my shopping bags yet.
Ive heard of them and want to try them!!
I would love to have cuter reusable shopping bags – The ones I have right now are functional but ugly. I love the attention that my reusable bags get. People admire them or ask questions and I can tell it makes them think “hmmm, maybe I should try bringing my own bags.” Not only is it environmentally friendly, but I find them easier to carry, I have less trash around the house, and I get 5 cents back on my groceries for every bag I bring (thanks, Stop & Shop!) I’d love to have bags that are more chic.
I have always hated those cheapo grocery store plastic bags because they tear easily and I live in a fifth floor walkup apartment, by the time I’d get upstairs bags always break and my groceries end up rolling down the stairs! These are sturdier, most certainly prettier and I can take more stuff up the stairs in less trips! Happy Holidays everyone.
Those bags are really great! I have some very awkward to use canvas bags, and usually I forget to bring them with me. These would be good, because they can be left in the car until needed.
though we reuse plastic bags, i would love to win this kit because it looks fun (and economical and environmentally friendly)
WOW I love the double kit — that way there is always one in the car. I always take my two cloth bags to the store but forget to put them back in the car after and then the next time I go I search around to find they are not in the car. The double kit would help with that.
I have been recycling for over 38 years. I always carry reusable canvass tote bags to bag my own groceries. Not only does it keep my groceries from rolling around in my trunk it keeps the usage of plastic and paper down. I also, like the fact that I wash them in the washing machine and hang them out to dry. They smell fresh when dry and ready to reuse.
Those are really nice. I have a couple of stuff bags, but they are beginning to fray at the bottom seam. Plus, if I have a large shopping, it’s back to plastic. Looks like these have functionally useful handles.
I’d like to win because my canvas bags but they are ugly black ones, these are so stylish, I love the colors.
I have a hodgepodge of different bags that I use when shopping. The only reason I have so many bags is because I don’t have a way to keep them in one place. This is a great visually rich solution to my forgetful nature.
Would be great to have to take grocery and supply shopping.
I would love to give this to my daughter in college. She rides her bike with her roommate to the grocery store, and these would be so very easy and convenient for them to carry!
I love the compact reusable shopping bags. It would help someone to use them because they are all in one place and you can keep them in the car so you will have them at your disposal for the “while I am Out” stops. And even use them for other shopping besides grocery.
Absolutely brilliant idea. Permanent bags are fine, but lugging them around is too much sometimes. These guys stow away until we need them at the checkout! No fuss! Great!
I love shopping bags. Living in NYC, we are always dragging stuff around, so we wear out even the most durable shopping bag. Shopping bags are like shoes, you can never have too many.
I already use reusable bags, but I need a stylish set like this to induce my mom to join me!
I would like to be kind to Mother Earth by always having a reusable bag and forgoing the plastic ones. This set would be all I need, I’d keep it in the car.
I have been using reusable shopping bags and baskets for years. Many of them are now beginning to wear out. THese new ones would be great!
I have tote bags in the car and truck-so they are handy when i shop
I love using reusable bags to lessen my carbon footprint. In addition to using the bags for groceries, Blue Avacado bags are great for trekking around the city running errands. What I love most about Blue Avacado (besides being super fabulous), is that it allows me support a local Austin business! :o)