Next time someone says the Mini is too small, let them know you can fit about $270 worth of groceries in the back. We didn't take our 4 year old this week, but we usually fit this much with only one of the back seats down, his carseat on the other side. Plenty of room this week for our grocery run.

 

And you made your point by downloading the pic 'actual size'.

 

WOW!! SHOKK that is quite a bit...I think it will definitely MUM the pessamists.

 

Just in case you need to see what size cat litter we bought. LOL

 

5 grown adults in the MINI. Top that

 

Oh no! I don't see beer.

 

Pics or it didn't happen!
Seriously, we're talking about safe seatbelted drivers.
Otherwise you could just count someone pulling an Indiana Jones off the back bumper.

 

indecisive? Paper AND Plastic

 

That IS a lot of bags. Personally, I HATE tons of bags- only because the PILE up in my kitchen so quickly. I swear they are reproducing...

 

Okay. How about 4 CASES of paper towels? That's 192 rolls, if you're counting. It was a real riot--opened the hatch and a bunch fell out!

They were purchased for Houston MINI Motoring Society's annual paper roll drive for Ronald McDonald House in Houston. And no, I didn't drive it very far. I unloaded about 30 or 40 rolls or so to another member so I could drive the 60 miles to my home. Still had a whole bunch, but at least I could see my mirrors!

P.S. Our Ronald McD House says they need paper towels more than anything else--maybe yours does, too? Might be a good cause.

 

Don't you use them for garbage? We have, for decades...

 

very nice

Just a word of caution: Anything you put inside the car that isn't strapped down will become a projectile in an accident. I've dropped 35 pounds of kitty litter on my foot and I'd hate to see the result if it came flying at my head after a crash.

The only thing more impressive then groceries in a MINI is a trip to Ikea. Packing Ikea in a MINI should be an Olympic sport.

 

Around here $270 would nearly fit without folding the seats down.

My Mini doesn't go to stores. That's where shopping carts live!

 

Paper and plastic is kinda like belts and suspenders. Anyhow, if you did that here in Germany you would have to bring your own bags. Fortunately for me I hit up a drug rep for about 20 of the sturdy canvas bags before coming to the land of beer and brats. Hopefully, it makes up for the **** poor gas milage of my RS4.

Now this is a grocery getter

 

Nah. Tall kitchen garbage bags for garbage... Shopping bags are too small for me. I use them for "walking the dog" just to get rid of them.

For some reason bags are my pet peeve- when a checkout person puts ONE small thing in a bag- or the best- I buy a duffle bag, and they put it in a bag! LOL A single chapstick. In a bag! Aiee! Just gimme the chapstick!

 

My pet peeve is plastic bags of any kind. I hate it when you go to a supermarket and they give you 4 or 5 plastic bags that flop aroun in place of one biodegradable paper bag. If I was king, plastic containers or bags of any kind and incadescent light bulbs would be banished.

 

Man you got a lot of groceries.

 

Did you make the bagger do that ridiculous paper/plastic shenanigan, or did you bag it yourself?

That's pretty impressive though. If you only fold down one seat, how do you keep from burying the kid under a falling mound of bags when you turn?

 

LOL...I came out there other day from the grocery store and some heathen had left a cart a little too close to Ambrosia! The bf said the carts have already started hunting down and stalking my new mini

ah the paranoia and anxiety of owning a brand new car without any door dings.....

 

The great thing is that you can take all your plastic bags to certain grocery stores for recycling. I know Whole Foods and most Giants have big bins outside where you can dump them.

I have already started my plastic-bags-to-be-recycled collection in the back of the Mini, I just need to remember to get them out!

And I also absolutely hate the excessive/wasteful bagging at most stores....I usually have to tell them "please, don't bag that" and they either don't really listen or give me a weird look

 

Boy, you've got that right. Around here they use a plastic bag for a plastic jug of milk! Trade a flimsy bag for the jug's molded-in handle? Not for me, thanks. Too d*mned much plastic in our world. I'm sure archeologists will be thrilled 1000 years from now. Assuming we make it as a species that long...

P.S. My MA told me, during my delivery indoctrination, to use the side nets for milk jugs. He was right. Too bad he's selling Saturns now--he knew his stuff.

 

They "offer" that here, too, but I've never seen anyone use a recycled bag. Personally, I use them at the kitchen sink for peels, egg shells, etc. Compost isn't an option for me, but they come in handy for stuff like that. About every 5th trip I get paper, as a liner for the kitchen wastebasket.

Works for me!

 

Let's not turn this into another attack the OP thread... Use whatever bag combination that floats your boat.

 

(I'm kinda placing my bets on the fact that we don't make it that long..lest we end up like Idiocracy! ....)

 

I usually take the MINI grocery shopping. Everything fits fine.

I once fit 3 AVID Xpress Studios in the back of my MINI... It was fun toting around a bunch of video equipment that was worth WAY more than the car!

Oh, and then there's this...