Like all manly men, when I go shopping (and have buttered scones for tea) I come back with a lot of bags, and these bags must be brought into the house in one trip if humanly possible. That means that I might carry any number of bags weighing any amount. Because regardless of the bulk and weight, to make multiple trips is a sign of weakness.
Well, my wife has leaped in to help me out! Or maybe she's just tired of crushed loaves and broken eggs. Because she got me the Click & Carry.
What is this strange device?
The Click & Carry is nothing more than a heavy plastic handle made for heaving bags around. The top twists open, the handles of the bags are inserted, and when it clicks shut the bags are, as it were, reduced to being a single bag as they are hefted by a single handle. Clever!
You can hoist it by hand; you can sling it over your shoulder (it has a comfort gel strip where it meets your shoulder to keep it from digging in and keep it in place).
A few of these and you can easily get a week's worth of groceries for a family of six on your person. You may not be able to move, but you can do it!
There are, of course, a couple of caveats for the purchaser.
1) It only works with strapped or handled bags -- no paper bags. I know some paper bags have handles, but I never trust them. It will work with cans of paint, as seen on the label.
2) The Click & Carry is thick and strong, but that means it itself adds to the weight. Probably less than a can of beans, though.
3) Because you have bags slung together and hanging on your person like humungous Christmas ornaments, your groceries might still get crushed. But your rep with the other dads will not. No guy wants the shame of being a mere "two-bagger."
4) The product was seen on Shark Tank, so it has a label to that effect. But also...
5) Once again we see tribalism in the Certified Women Owned label on the packaging. Nothing against women in business, but who cares? It tells you nothing except they may have gotten SBA loans and other preferences men couldn't get, and so the company could be propped up despite the product being crap because a 51% stake is owned by someone with two X chromosomes. I believe Jeremy Boreing of Jeremy's Razors should have Certified Man Owned label on his product packaging.
6) Caveman that I am, I'd say that it just figures that a woman would invent a product that helps one go shopping, but I maintain that this product is more helpful for men. Men have the upper-body strength to really put it to its maximum usefulness.
So the bottom line -- Click & Carry is clever and it works. Get a few and bring in so many shopping bags from the car in one trip that you look like a monster from The Dark Crystal. The other men may actually applaud.
As the oldest male child in a family with seven kids, it was my job to bring in the groceries (and there were a lot of them). This was of course before plastic bags, and yet I would strive mightily to bring in as many bags in one trip as humanly possible.
ReplyDeleteMy dad would chide me for carrying "a lazy man's load" but that only inspired me to go for even more on the next trip.
Another device for manly men to do manly things in a manly kind of way!
ReplyDeleteExcept I also have to take my parents to Costco. sometimes I luck out and there's just enough purchases and the right sized box to make that a one trip trip.
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