Grocery bag carrier/holder

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I was out and about and saw one of these for sale and thought it would be fun to design one in Fusion360, so I did, and this is it. Gone are the days of struggling to carry 20 bags of groceries in at one time: now you can do it one handed! Print 2 and carry 40 bags! Or something like that... Anyway, I tested this out with some weights of known quantity and got one side of the carrier to hold 45lbs (theoretically meaning this design *could* hold 90lbs when using both sides of the carrier, maybe more). Asymmetrically loading this carrier **will** bend it and make it more likely to break, so always load symmetrically. The easiest way to do that is to always carry each bag placing one handle of the bag on each side of the carrier, that way the load is distributed evenly over both sides of the carrier. While it may not look like much, the image of the carrier holding a bag is actually a bag containing 50lbs of weights, which the carrier handled with no problems even when walking around. I would say 50lbs is probably the working maximum load you want to place on one carrier since walking around with the load places additional stresses on the carrier as you step. The grip can be shrunk/stretched in the lengthwise direction to fit your hand more comfortably.