I’ve been slightly obsessed (just ask my family) with controlling the plastic shopping bags that find their way into our house. We use cloth bags when we do a lot of our shopping, but still end up with quite a few plastic shopping bags. No problem, we use them to line the smaller trash cans in our house. The problem comes with neatly containing those unruly plastic bags.
Last summer I repurposed a clorox container to hold the plastic bags.
I made 2 containers, one for the linen closet upstairs and 1 for the laundry room downstairs.
Lay the plastic bag out flat on a table.
Fold it in half lengthwise and then in thirds.
And fold the final third over. Smooth the air out of the bag.
Starting at the non-handles end, make a triangle. If you’ve been in Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts or an honor guard and have flag folding experience, you’ll know exactly how to do this.
Flip the triangle over and then up and then over again until you reach the top of the handles.
Tuck the ends of the bag into the opening on the triangle.
Here’s where the tucked in handles went.
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Organized Island says
Oh this so reminds me of folding the flag in girl scouts! I roll mine up in a ball but will have to try this method. They are so handy to reuse!
Jacqueline Driggers says
I have a much simpler method than that. Take the bag, and hold it in the middle at the bottom. Just run your other hand down it where it is a small column. While holding it at the bottom, just wrap it around your finger till you only have a small ball. Then, using empty garbage bag boxes, store them until needed. Using a self-adhesive wall hook, and an empty bag, you can create a storage place that hangs on the wall. Simple and quick.
susan says
Jacqueline, definitely sounds easy. I like that you recycle the trash bag box to hold the plastic shopping bags.