Things I need recommendations on:

[conuly]

1. Reusable shopping bags of decent quality - no stretching at the seams after a reasonable load of groceries. Quality tends to decline in bag companies after the first few years, so brands that were excellent five years ago are probably crap now. They need to be able to go over the shoulder and fold up into a pouch so I can go into stores with overzealous security guards.

2. Card holders for playing cards. My mother's dexterity is not as bad as right after chemo or the stroke, but she's getting older. It would be useful to get something now so we can all continue to play Rummy 500 together.

3. Dice trays. Eva is sure to get less enthusiastically clumsy with her dice, but as I recall it took me a while so.... She's game to using the lid, but not if the lid is pretty small.

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[movingfinger]

Late 2016 or early 2017. I've washed it, it comes out odorless and clean.

Local shop has a bunch, I can have a look at them if you like (might take a few days).

I think they have various grades of fabric, the one I have is a ripstop nylon of the kind used for light backpacks and sometimes windbreakers. It's big. They make a few sizes.

Japanese grocery stores can be a good place to look for these, but they tend not to have over-shoulder size ones, using a stitched-in handle instead (that said, one of my best and most durable nylon bags has big enough self-fabric handles for over-shoulder carrying and came from Daiso).

[conuly]

Okay! (I've been burned before by bags that were awesome the first time turning into cheap crap the second time I bought them after, say, I lost one or, in one notable instance, my mother filled it with dirt. I'm still really pissed at her over that.)