They also gave the Obamas a reusable grocery bag emblazoned with a dandelion, and his-and-hers Dior bathrobes.

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"Right now I'm walking and I'm carrying a reusable grocery bag -- I've just been to the grocery store, " she tells CNN by cell phone from New York.

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And, at least to me, this constant cleaning and changing of said pants seems far more gross and burdensome than occasionally stepping outside with a Kroger grocery bag firmly wrapped around my hand.

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It was only interesting long enough to get me through the line to swipe my Visa card, pack my reusable grocery bag and move on to the next errand of the day.

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The show appeals to children with "these brightly colored people with grocery-bag-shaped heads, " he says, and then it will throw in a Schopenhauer joke, he observes.

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Usually when you buy a product, say a bag of apples at the grocery store, you know what you are getting and your grocer does not really care who you are.

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"My husband teases me that I'm too vigilant when I buy turkey and put it in a plastic bag and put it on the bottom shelf of the grocery cart, away from everything else, " Undurraga said.

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Taking home a bag of groceries (as opposed to a basket or cart) may become the norm if grocery prices and the economy maintain its ugly tenure.

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Wondering what to do, ferreting in his bag, he found a copy of the Declaration of Independence he had been given at the grocery store, and a light-bulb pinged on in his head.

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