Whew.  Saturday marked the last day of summer school I will ever attend.  One more quarter and I’m done with college.  I’ve started cleaning out my bookmarks, and I have SO MANY.  One of the websites I bookmarked was Baggu.  They are sturdy reusable bags to replace grocery plastic and paper bags.  They are perfect for the supermaket or holding your randoms.  I’ll be ordering a couple, but I still need to select a color.

PLASTIC BAGS & THE PLANET The average family brings home 1,000 bags every year. Most of those bags end up in land fills. That really adds up - 100 billion plastic bags are sent to landfill in the US each year.

In landfills, it can take up to 1000 years for a bag to decompose. Plastics don’t biodegrade, they photo-degrade, breaking down into tiny toxic pieces that contaminate soil and water or harm wildlife.

Every time you use your Baggu bag instead of plastic or paper you are doing something Good.

-Baggu

Pictures from Baggu

Oddly enough, I’ve been on a bag kick lately.  Here are the latest round of bags that caught my eye.

Pictures from Orciani

I could gush about Phillip Lim for days.  He’s developed quite a little niche for himself.  He has consistent pieces and cuts which he releases each season, yet somehow each collection has it’s own voice and can be separated out.

Check out these bags.  The blue one is calling to me, but there is so much I want this season.  Ouch.  I need to update my fall 2008 wishlist before reckless spending ensues.

The bags are available at Eluxury. You can click the pictures to access the direct links.

Don’t forget to check out the cool little Q&A with Phillip Lim, also from Eluxury.

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What do you bag aficionados think about the latest bags by Marc Jacobs?

To be perfectly honest, I like the shaggy bag featured in the first picture, because it is so ridiculous.  Sometimes, things are so ridiculous/hideous that they prove to be quite the opposite.  That is why, I must own that bag.

Pictures from Marc Jacobs