Did you ever make paper napkin footballs when you were a kid? Well that childhood activity has a fabulous adulthood use too. Folding your plastic grocery bags using the football fold will reduce the space you need to store them. Plus it also makes them small enough to have a few on hand in your purse or diaper bag.
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I had plastic grocery bags jammed so tightly in a plastic bag holder that I had made. I couldn't fit another one into the holder if I wanted to. My husband and I tried your suggestion and folded all our bags. Voila! I couldn't believe it. Now we can store many more bags. Thanks for sharing your suggestion.
Keep in mind that when you're storing more bags than you can actually use, at that point they can be brought to Walmart and be recycled in the bin that's in the entranceway.
Lifes too short to spend time folding trash bags!
I agree! I would rather spend the time reading a good book! Just stuff them in a wastebasket that you store under a table. Or you can stuff them into the "wet umbrella" bags that some hospital clinics have at their front doors in rainy weather.
Thanks for posting what an easy, exciting idea!
I put plastic bags to use many ways. I have done 'crochet' with 'plarn'(plastic yarn). I have rolled them in a way to pull one at a time out of a former wipe's container. And I have folded many into the little footballs. The advantage of folding into 'footballs' is that it is the smallest way to store them. This makes it easy to keep them in the desk drawer at work, my purse, the car, and anywhere you may need a bag in the spur of the moment.
After folding the bags 4 times, you can cut off the bottom, throw it away. Cut the rest is strips, cut each circle open and use the strips to crochet toys, placemats, a mat for the trunk of our car, etc. Why store them, when you can reuse them in a positive way.
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