Clorox or Lysol Wipes Container to Store Plastic Shopping Bags

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In the past couple of months I’ve found my house swarmed with plastic shopping bags.  Although I use cloth bags when I do my grocery shopping, those plastic bags still sneak into my home somehow.  I keep plastic shopping bags around because we use them to line trash cans.  In the past I’ve stored the plastic shopping bags in a larger bag hanging in my laundry room.

Although my laundry room has been pretty well organized, I’ve been working on better organizing my laundry room.  It’s tiny and …. well, I’m just going to say it, ugly.  If it was my house,  I’d do something (a lot of something) to this room. But since I’m a tenant, I’ve been trying to grin and bear it. There are too many things about the room that I can’t change, so I’ve been doing small, non-permanent improvements to make it more bearable.

Make an Embellished Grocery Bag Container!! at Tater Tots and Jello

I stumbled upon this projects at Tater Tots and Jello {here} to store plastic shopping bags.  Since it involved repurposing an item I already had at home,  I jumped right in.  The directions were super easy on how to fold and wrap the shopping bags so they’ll “dispense” from the container.

In place of decorative paper I used a card front from a Christmas card that I liked .  If I’m going to repurposed the wipes container and the plastic shopping bags, it just seemed appropriate to repurpose the decoration, too.

I also liked the picture because it reminds me why my family reuses plastic shopping bags. 

I’m really pleased with the way it turned out.  And even better,  it works well; the plastic bags are easy to pull out.

Susan

I’m a mom of 3, a veteran and military spouse. I’ve moved into 20+ homes all around the world. My passion is helping busy people make the space and time for what’s really important to them.