I love the first picture, with your kitty staring at us, trying to convince us, "totes aren't that bad!"

The last one cool and the photographer tote is great!

Yes, some stores we religiously take just some of our (massive) tote collection. But in other stores, where there is not a surcharge, I ask for the brown paper bag.
Upon unloading the stuff at home, the paper bags go straight to my compost pile!

Maybe tote bags are the answer, in my opinion. But I agree. It's very easy for a good idea to kind of lose sight of itself, get warped, and change into something bad.

Like with the transition from combustion to electric: I certainly don't think that if all cars are replaced by Teslas we'd simply be better off...

I have just a few personal totes that I collected from travels as well and I think they are pretty cool! (I got one in Korea!) But in total, yes we probably have way too many for the household..

I loved the idea for this article. It's something I never really gave much thought.