Yay!! Thanks for doing this Laurie :)

yay! I love contests!

Love the idea of non-logo'ed eco-friendly bags!

Gosh, CAP, thanks for this opportunity! And thanks to Envirosacs, too!

yay contests are fun!

Are you prepared for people to start sending you zucchini recipes again?

Um...can you extoll the virtues of Hewlett-Packard next?

Mama needs a new printer.

Way cool!I'm in!
Ever see the movie with Adam Sandler where he keeps saying "you can put your weed in that"? For some reason your blog title made me think of that, I can't remember the name of the movie right now, I'm still giggling over the line.

I love the look of these bags! When you posted them I went and looked at the web-site... but was at work, so didn't buy them. Think I need to go back there tonight and get some! I will look oh so chic when going to Trader Joe's!

Those bags are very, very awesome! I'll bet they hold TONS of zucchini.

Cool!
I'm in!

I ordered the black and white envirosax when you posted about them on Earth Day. I got them two weeks ago, and they are great! I think I'm going to enter the contest, so that I can give a set to my sister if I win.

So great! I have knitting in my Trader Joe bag, so can't carry groceries in it right now. Thanks!

Cool! Thanks for the great contest :o)

Yay! The bags look awesome!
You rock!

... you realize that now you will be bombarded with e-mails saying, "I CAN'T BELIEVE PEOPLE WHO LIVE ON MARS AREN'T ELIGIBLE TO ENTER THIS CONTEST YOU BIG CORPORATE SELLOUT!!!!11!!!"

(I personally ADORE your product-recommending posts and think it's beyond cool that the Envirosax people contacted you like that. If I rec'ed anything on my blog, the company would probably contact me and be like, Look, we're glad you enjoy your shampoo, but could you not mention us by name? Especially not in the same breath with your Michael Caine fixation? You're making us look bad.)

Michael Caine is really underrated.

So cool thanks!

Done! I so adore contests.

This is a great giveaway! I feel like your post on the collective state of insanity was quite a gift (at least to those of us who were also noticing the same phenomenon that day and were grouchy about it)!

whoo hoo free greenstuff!

Yay! I pointed out to the bag people, when they were out of a bag I wanted, that you'd recommended them. Wheeeee. :)

well I dont usually win anything but maybe this time?

after I saw these on your blog I immediately ordered some for Mother's Day. Now I want some!

I'm not sure what it says about my life that I love that you're spacing it out over 5 days so I'll have something to look forward to every morning :)

Also, I just finished finals, and reading from your archives was my favorite study break. Thank you for sharing.

Fun! (As if it's ever not fun when Crazy Aunt Purl is around!)

Reassure me: when you announce the winners, you'll just announce first name and last initial, right? Because I still have a bit of Innernet Paranoia, after all these years. Not that I think I'm going to win, or anything. I'm totally not. But that didn't stop me from entering, because those bags are cool, and I'm a sucker for a tote bag.

And don't worry about the carrycaselessness... the winner can knit him/herself a carrycase! :)

YAY! Great contest with awesome prizes! It's hard to live in ohsoenvironmentallyconscious Seattle without proper shopping bags! IhopeIwin-IhopeIwin-IhopeIwin!!! Thanks! :)

*fingers crossed*

Those bags look great, my fingers are crossed!

Oh damnation! Here I was secretly cyber-stalking you and then you have to go and offer a prize and I have to come out of the stalking closet to enter. I have been trying to fiscally manipulate those bags, and then you throw in a signed copy of your bible er...book! *swoon* My copy is essentially destroyed from reading and knitting everything in it! I must win...you must draw my name! **you are getting very, very sleepy...you must draw Julie's name...just relax...draw Julie's name**

Hope this works!

Well, back to closet stalking...keep the blogs-a-rolling sister...I need them!

Julie

Oh contest fun! Entry submitted and fingers crossed!

With Michael Caine it's the mid-career stuff that was bad, the eighties was not a good time for our Michael. However his early stuff is pretty decent, and he seems to have returned to form recently.

Very cool. I suspect the company has done well from your first post about them, when I also bought them. I'm planning to give sets as Christmas presents this year!

I am willing to take some zucchini as a consolation prize should I not win the sacks.

Really.
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Hmm, a little later in the summer and you could have given away zucchini with the bags!

Darn toootin' i signed up! Yay for contests...now if i can just win one....

Yes, I too ordered a set to try and I freaking love them. Whatever did I do before these fabulous bags? I carried the kids' stuff in my poor arms, that's what! I got three more sets to give as gifts (Mom yesterday) and I'm looking forward to the recipients loving them too. The folks at TJ's and Target were very impressed! Oh no no, I have my own bags.

I'm glad they're recognizing you for the recommendation. Good luck to all!

If I win a set I'm totally getting the hot pink ones. Do you think my husband will need some convincing to carry them home??

Thanks for the contest, Laurie. I hope you are having an easier time this week. HUGS.

I'm cranky and combative. Winning an Envirosac might soothe me to the point of just plain ol' disgruntled-ness.

Got to love contests!
I'm hosting one over on my blog right now, too.

http://trekcelt.blogspot.com/2008/05/box-topapalooza.html

BTW, our local grocery store credits you 2¢ for each bag you re-use. They've been doing this for quite some time. I hooked a couple of string bags and keep them in the car.

Over the weekend, I noticed that they changed their sign: if you re-use a disposable plastic bag, you get a 2¢ credit per bag; if you use a non-disposable bag (like the Envirosacs or my string bags), you get a 5¢ per bag!

Pick my name: help me save up for gas money, 5¢ at a time!

ohh..would love to win them..can't afford to buy them on SS so a real prize to me

Thanks for this Laurie! I "ran" right over to the website after you recommended them and ordered a set for me and some for friends and their kids. I looooove the Envirosax. It's amazing how much groceries you can stuff in there! Heck, I bet I could even stuff my cat in there! Hmmmmm, fun for the weekend?? Maybe.....

Hey, if I won those I could stop carrying my Trader Joe's bags into Whole Foods just to be contentious. ;)

Thanks Laurie!:)

Golly... if I say something now, I would have to give up my lurker status.

I would have to pass the signed book off to someone else, as I already treasure mine. But that's the kind of gift I can handle giving. Noble ambassador = me.

Wow... I love my single Envirosax (hmm... what's the singular...) - the thought of it no longer being lonely is wonderfully tempting...

I hope I win! These are so pretty and handy and nice I will never forget to bring them to the grocery store.

I'm in.

Just a question: Do you have another book in the works?

Ahhhh.... Michael Caine. I've loved him from "Educating Rita" until today! Even "Noises Off"!

Thanks for the contest!

Thanks for the opportunity to win! and tell the envirosax people, thank you as well!

You better believe I ran right over and registered. I only used one of my four email addresses too - gotta keep honest...

And I would love to win - especially your book - because I gave my copy to my surrogate daughter (37, divorced, coping bravely outside but I think bawling her eyes out within). Bless your heart, Laurie.

Now I'm off to Envirosack because I never win anything :)

hugs to the kitties from Perry Penelope and me.

'All you had to do was blow the bloody doors off!' One of the greatest lines in moviedom. I love Michael Caine.

P.S. Am off to enter your triffic competition now.

What a great opportunity!

Bossy loves her a Giveaway. The gettin' part, especially.

Yay! I've been wanting some of these! Pick me! Pick me! Thanks for doing this Laurie!

I hope I win - I work in recycling, so except for trash, I'm not supposed to ever use a non-recyclable bag!

Hmmm, can't tell if I've REALLY been submitted or not.... so the three million duplicate entries of me aren't an *intentional* cheating scheme, I really, really promise!! I mean, I would LOVE to win, and I think it's totally w00t-worthy that they got ahold of you... in fact, it just made my day better!

Kewl contest-y-ness.

Now about those Zucchini's - you know you can pick 'em when they're witty-bitty, don't ya? Great flavor and less bitterness and hassle. No more than five to seven inches long are optimal. Bigger isn't better if it's bitter. ;)

Have a Great Day!
TB

You are SO fun! Thanks for the contest - BTW, I ordered one after your post and graciously allowed my children to give it to ME for Mother's Day. LOVE THEM, but NEED MORE!!

Glad to hear that there are now plain bags. I like the prints but they were just too "look-ey at me and my enviro self!" for me to buy.

Woo - Hoo ! - Trying to restrain myself and only enter under 1 email name (not even the one I log on with here - too hard to access mail).

Anyway, win or lose, that was one of the EASIEST contest entries ever! Because it's a real live, honest-to-god giveaway, instead of somebody offering a "prize" to get a bunch of info from me, or making me spend money on a bunch of other useless crap in order to qualify.

HOORAY FOR CAP, ENVIROSAX, AND **REAL** PRIZES!!

Wow!! How cool is this? Thank you Laurie.

Hey--not only are those bags good for the environment, cats LOVE to "hide" in them. Mine do--or at least as well as a 10 lb cat can hide anywhere. It sets up a really neat game of "no human, you do not see my well endowed rump hanging out of your grocery bag..." Sad, I know. My name is Rhonda and I have 5 cats...I will sit down now...

I know, I'm way late to the party today, but I hope you see this, Laurie. Occasionally I cruise I Can Haz Cheezburger, and one of their recent posts just has to be shared: http://icanhascheezburger.com/2008/05/12/funny-pictures-jazz-hams/#comments

Oh, thank you, Laurie!

Yay! This is a great giveaway....thanks!

I can has signed book? Bags are just a bonus! From another divorced crazy cat lady who knits (and also has a dog, but who's counting?)

Yay for companies like Envirosax who appreciate compliments, and are willing to share the joy.

well, isn't this special?

thanks for being open to creating a fun blog that has vendor magnetism and readership hoopla. yeah, you rock.

mck.

That is so cool! I think those bags are too cool. you are very generous.

Thank you for a fanatastic giveaway.... here in the Middle East they are slowly catching up with the rest of the world when it comes to recycling and these bags are perfect.

The website is confusing because if you not a resident of USA/Australia/New Zealand it keeps sending you from site to site!

Hummm... I already bought the Envirosax bags (on your advice)!!... they are great and I love the colors I got!!.... however, I entered a couple friends so hopefully they will win!!... but now I am sorry I didn't get your book!... okay, maybe I will just buy it!!...

I have a quandary - I want to enter the sweepstake, I want to win the bag - but I live in London so:

1. I don't think it's fair that you should have to pay that much postage and

2. The air miles involved in sending it out of the US - well, I think of the carbon footprint and immediately feel guilty for wanting the bag.

So I won't enter the sweepstake, but I will go buy the bag. Good luck to all those that do enter though!

OMG - I LOVE THESE BAGS!!

I won't enter the contest because I just bought some a few weeks back, and I got the fuchsia, green, and blue ones and they are pretty and very useful. I bought mine (along with a SIGG, because I'm now really striving to be green in many ways) with free shipping and at a 3-fer good deal at

http://www.brightandbold.com/engrba.html

and it was a really good investment. I may go back and get the 10-fer deal for friends' bday gifts and help them get "greener", too!

I have a couple of cats I can contribute to the giveaway

Laurie, I almost bought the "Costco" bag the other day, but it's not nearly as nice as these! Thanks for the contest!!!

I did buy a few after you told me I HAD to - lol. I just love them. I also have the local stores' bags - I've started collecting everyone's. I still have to get used to ACTUALLY REMEMBERING bring them into the stores though.

Anyway, I'm glad that, in addition to being sooo GREEN-aware, that you did get something out of it. More cheers for Envirosax there!

Regards ...

Please enter me in your contest. I would love to win a bag.

Darn it! I ordered two packs! One for me, one for a gift! And I talked them up at my local Whole Foods in Illinois, where they were mighty impressed. Behold the power of marketing on the almightly knitting blog.

Sign me up! Better late than never!

I may go back and get the 10-fer deal for friends' bday gifts and help them get "greener", too!

The website is confusing because if you not a resident of USA/Australia/New Zealand it keeps sending you from site to site!