Pork Lovers Rejoice!

Attention all pork lovers! Finally a lunch bag worthy of carrying your porcine goodies to work.

Pay homage to the delicious pig with our first lunch bag designed for the serious food lover. Made to fit your largest homemade BLT sandwich,  snacks and a tall beverage.

Hero Bags’ original pig butchery artwork and ‘Lunch’ silk screened on the front. Simple shape inspired by origami and a cotton napkin. Made in the USA in a fair labor factory out of organic cotton grown in Texas.

Back-To-School Lunch Bag SALE

Back-To-School SALE on all Lunch Bags!

Pick up a new lunch bag for the kids, and maybe one for yourself. Hero Bags entire line of super cute organic cotton, zipper top, machine washable lunch bags are currently 15% off right now.
HEROBAGS.com online sale ends 8/31/09

Freebie Friday. Win A ‘One Bottle Bag’ Wine Tote!

Hero Bags: One Bottle Bag

That’s right folks. Freebie Friday = Free Stuff here at Hero Bags.

We’ve just released our newest addition to the Hero Bags line, The ‘One Bottle Bag’ and we are so excited that we are giving one of our fabulous new wine totes away (FREE) on our blog to ONE lucky winner.

Our Hero Bags ‘One Bottle Bag’ canvas wine tote is pretty nifty thing,  it’s the it’s perfect tote to bring along wine to a friends house, picnic, BYOB restaurant or to give as a hostess gift. The clever illustration of a wine bottle on the front means that it also looks great on the shelf  just storing that next bottle of wine you’re going to gift.

How to win? Just make a comment below on this blog posting as to which beverage of choice you would tote in your brand new Hero Bags ‘One Bottle Bag’. Get creative, have fun because everyone is reading and the winner is picked at random. The contest runs one week so spread the word.

BONUS to Freebie Friday is Sale Saturday!

If you don’t win and want to purchase a bag  – we’ve got a deal for you, Sale Saturday! Immediately following the end of Freebie Friday is Sale Saturday (July 4th) where our ‘One Bottle Bag’ will go on sale (the percentage of discount is yet to be announced) for 48 hours on our website so you can snap up one (or two) of our Hero Bags “One Bottle Bags’ at a discount - Score a great bag for a great deal. Sale Saturday Starts 7/4.

The RULES:

1. The rules are simple, between Friday 6/26 -  Friday 7/3  (5PM pacific standard time) enter your comment on our Hero Bags blog. We reserve the right to remove any spam or inappropriate comments.

2. One winner per giveaway unless otherwise noted. We draw a random number using the website http://random.org/ and use that number to correspond with the comment number on the giveaway page.

3. Entrants must have a U.S. mailing address and be 21 or older to enter.

4. One entry per person, please.

5. We will contact the winner and ask for a mailing address. If winner does not respond within one week of being contacted, we will redraw and reassign a new winner.

6. Privacy. We do not collect any of your personal data off of this blog. Your emails are not stored, sold or solicited unless you win and then you get an email from us asking for your address to send you free stuff.

Spring Sale ~ 25% off all Hero Bags

Our annual Hero Bags Earth Day Sales event is underway! Visit our website for 25% off all bags & totes. Use coupon code ‘earthday’ at checkout. Sale ends May 17th.

Hero Bags now on Facebook!

Come join the fun! We’ve just launched a Hero Bags FB group and we want you!

Get the  latest on new products, post your fav bag pics and connect with Hero Bags fans.

wine gift bags linked to criminal activity?!

Agreed. Glitzy paper gift bags are ugly and environmentally un-friendly but… outlawed?!

NY State has fined a Rochester wine merchant $10,000 for selling wine gift bags! NY state won’t explain the ridiculous law but they do say it exists. WTF?! Read the story here.

The good news is that it’s 100% legal to sell our reusable Hero Bags ‘two bottle bag’ canvas wine totes online to anyone in NY!

The perfect holiday gift for the wine lover!

Hero Bags 'Two Bottle Bag'

Introducing the Hero Bags ‘Two Bottle Bag’!

Just in time for the holidays! The new Hero Bags  ‘Two Bottle Bag’ is designed especially to carry two wine or water bottles safely and snugly standing upright and without clinking.

Exclusive Hero Bags cotton canvas tote design with a whimsical print of two glass bottles on the front.  Makes a great gift to give to your  food & wine loving friends or yourself! Made in USA and on sale now for $12.95 each and available through the holiday only at HeroBags.com

New York City’s Bloomberg proposes plastic bag fee.

New York City’s Mayor Bloomberg proposes charging shoppers 6 cents for every plastic bag needed at the register. I’m glad to hear that New York city is fed up with plastic bags but I’m not crazy about a tax to get shoppers to use reusable bags.  To read more on the mayor’s proposal check out the New York Times story on this topic.

Hero Bags Lunch Bag Featured in San Francisco’s 7X7 Magazine

Hey we’re a role model! The Ecofabulous Zem Joaquin added our Hero Bags organic cotton lunch bag to her collection of eco-friendly back to school must haves in this month’s issue of 7X7 Magazine. Thanks Zem!

To see the entire writeup click here.

Hero Bags Lunch Bag Featured in San Francisco’s Chronicle as A Green Favorite.

Greening your lunch bag, that’s what it’s all about for back to school. Our very own San Francisco Chronicle features our Hero Bag organic cotton lunch bag as a favorite green lunch bag: Thanks for noticing us!

Click this link to check out SF Chronicle’s Food Section article; What’s New Greening the lunch box.