Editor,

It’s that time of year again for making New Year’s resolutions.

Here’s one that’s easy to do, and saves you money besides. Remember to take your grocery bags with you to the store. Hey, you even get a nickel back for each bag of yours they use.

But here’s a better idea. Let’s persuade all the grocery stores on the South End to start charging each one of us a nickel for each bag they provide for our use. We are far more likely to remember our bags if we know it’s going to cost us if we don’t. And hopefully less bags mean less trees cut down and fewer barrels of oil pumped.

Happy New Year.

GEOFF HORNSBY

Freeland