How many of you are mindful of the paper and plastic bags that are used for your groceries?

Do you know how easy it is to have BASKET BAGS in your trunk for the DUTY?

I have been doing this for YEARS!

The cashiers even know not to ask me “PLASTIC or PAPER” as they see the baskets in the cart.

I am sometimes called THE BASKET LADY!

I find them easier to handle and carry into the house from the garage as well.

When we lived outside of FLORENCE in ITALY in the early 1990’s EVERYONE saved their plastic yellow ESSELUNGA plastic bags.They would be folded and kept inside one another for the following trip to the market.At that time in 1991 they cost 10 cents each.They were sturdy and bigger than ours here in CALIFORNIA.They lasted for YEARS!

Italy’s been recycling for YEARS……………we need to keep up!

We certainly use more plastic stuff and from what I notice we WASTE A LOT MORE TOO.

I thought I might have started a TREND back in the day………..but I have yet to SEE ONE PERSON EVER USE A BASKET for GROCERIES!I have small tote cloth bags I carry inside the basket for PRODUCE or MEATS.

Those work well too.

Just thought I would show you because it makes grocery shopping MORE FUN IF YOU ASK ME!

I am there every other day as I make THE ITALIAN’s lunch and he has to have FRESH BREAD.

Once he RETIRES NO MORE PACKED LUNCHES!

MY LIFE WILL CHANGE!!

SHALL WE START THE COUNT DOWN?

184 more days……………..!!!

I pulled out an old DAUGHTERS OF INDIA dress to cover the new exercise leggings.

AS I stood in line to pay………..at LULULEMON (they seem to be the only store with lines to pay in the shopping center these days)I noticed sandals hanging on the wall.They looked small to me but once I paid I walked back through the line to see UP CLOSE!

OH MY GOSH………….They are sandals of my DREAMS!

I am an 8.5 shoe but the 7 fits me well in this sandal.

I can recall years ago at NEIMAN MARCUS the shoe man told me to go down at least a size if not two on sandals!That way you do not slip out of the sandal when walking!I cannot wear the sandals with the toe bump and cross bar like in a BIRKENSTOCK they give me CRAMPS!

I tried the LIGHT BLUE ONES ON!

I walked around the store!

I bought BEIGE and BLACK too as the sizes were dwindling and I shop like that!

If I like something I buy MULTIPLES.I wear one pair for a few days to make CERTAIN IT FITS and feels comfortable then I break out the others…………by ripping off their tags!

Or I return if it’s a NO GO!

The last time I bought sandals I was in ROME!

THAT WAS YEARS AGO!

MORE OF MY TOES!!

SORRY ABOUT THAT but I THOUGHT YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEE THE SANDALS!

Speaking of TOES I had a lot of comments regarding the TOE FUNGUS from the last Blog Post!

So, Interesting some of the helpful hints you all have tried are VICKS VAPOR RUB and LISTERINE NATURAL MOUTHWASH!

I APPRECIATE ALL YOUR FEEDBACK!

I think it’s a GREAT way to LEARN and SHARE what works for others and may work for ME and YOU too!

CHECK BACK TO SCAN THE COMMENTS AS IT MAY BENEFIT YOU!

SPEAKING of “WHAT WORKS”………….

As you know I was shot-up with BOTOX in my head and skull and my back about a month ago.

NOT FOR BEAUTY, but for what they now BELIEVE is MIGRAINES!

I might add in the beginning of all this DISCOVERY NINE YEARS AGO.

THEY HAD THE SAME THOUGHTS.

That my issue was MIGRAINES.

WE HAVE COME FULL CIRCLE and just maybe the BOTOX IS WORKING!

IT’s been over two weeks now NO EYE EPISODES!

THAT IS BIG NEWS……….however I am having headaches DAILY but I can deal with them.

JUST MAYBE I CAN HAVE MY LIFE BACK.

NO JUMPING UP AND DOWN FOR JOY YET!

I DONOT WANT TO JINX IT!

WHY WAS I THE LAST TO KNOW ABOUT BOTOX?THEN AGAIN I NEVER THOUGHT I HAD MIGRAINES.

I STILL DON’T THINK THATS WHAT IT IS, BUT IF THIS WORKS WONDERFUL………!

I WILL BE SILENT AND KEEP ON GIVING YOU CAFTANS,MY GARDEN and MY TIPS OF SUPER FINDS AND FINDING PEOPLE OF INTEREST!!

COMING SOON WILL BE A WOMAN WHO MAKES HER OWN SKINCARE!

FOR HER OWN USE!

I made a WONDERFUL RICE SALAD RECENTLY.

Is that something you would want the recipe for?

I put CASHEWS and TUNA in it with loads of vegetables.Lots of Balsamic vinegar and olive oil.

It makes a GOOD DINNER all on it’s OWN!

The PLASTIC BAGS I spoke of above are non-existent in ITALY NOW and they sell these for groceries.You can see from the lines how my sister-in-law folds it up to put into another bag………I would guess she has about SIX or EIGHT of these at ALL TIMES!

If any of YOU WORLDLY READERS WANT TO CHIME IN PLEASE DO in the comments BELOW!

HOW DO YOU CART YOUR GROCERIES HOME?

DO YOU FEEL GOOD ABOUT IT…………

Of course we are TWO PEOPLE and a CAT THEODORE that I shop for on a regular basis, so TWO BASKETS seems to do the trick and mine stack inside each other.If you are a BIG FAMILY carting multiple baskets inside may not BEHOOVE YOU!

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YOUR CONTESSA

I have an IRONING PILE to TACKLE this week!I really do ENJOY IT once I get it all SET-UP!

Do you think the YOUNGER people even know what an IRON DOES?

I can see that TOOL disappearing in OUR LIFETIME!

KEEP ON SCROLLING DOWN TO READ AND OR COMMENT!

HAPPY SUMMER EVERYONE or WINTER if you live FAR FAR AWAY!!!