Wrangling Plastic Grocery Bags

malindagibson1964

A messy pile of plastic grocery bags. I consistently use plastic grocery bags for two things: my husband's lunch and poop patrol for my 3 large dogs. After putting the groceries away I would have a bag of bags. I tried rolling them up to put in a plastic container but it took FOREVER to it, although I did like the idea of having them neat and orderly and ready for use.

Basically, this tip is to efficiently set up your supplies the way you use them and place them in a convenient spot!

Steps:

This takes just minutes and saves me time and aggravation.

For Lunch Bags:

Lay out a bag, smoothing it out.

Repeat for all bags until you have a stack of them.

Stacking doubled flat plastic bags together.

Fold in half lengthwise

Then fold in half again.

A plastic bag folded in half lengthwise and then in half the other direction.

Stack them.
Put them in a lone bag and hang in a convenient spot.

Folded bags placed inside another bag for storage.

For Poop Patrol:

Folded double plastic bags, placed in a green cube for storage.

I use two bags for this job. Place one bag inside another

Placing one bag inside another for collecting dog poop.

Repeat until you're out of bags
I put them in a cube in my cube holder with the gloves I use.

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Alicia
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January 29, 20191 found this helpful

There are better ways. Look for something called a sack sock- its a fabric tube with elastic and both ends, and a fabric or ribbon loop for hanging. Very easy to make for just a couple dollars. Holds quite a few bags.

Crumble and push in top, and pull them out the bottom as needed. Or you can fold them like on this video: youtu.be/mOtFO50f2FY then just put into a container or an empty tissue box.

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Lilac
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January 29, 20191 found this helpful

Soon these plastic bags will be outlawed in every state. They are a major factor in pollution. For under ten dollars you can order over one thousand waste basket liners that are strong enough for your purpose and come on a roll. I realize the grocery ones are free but they wont be around forever

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Bullfrog Corner

January 30, 20190 found this helpful

Thank you. Please point me to the waste basket liners where I can buy 1,000 for under $10.00.

I'm taking care of an incontinent parent. These would be very useful I would think.

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Molly

January 30, 20190 found this helpful

I took a mesh grapefruit bag, and stuff the bags into it. It holds a good many bags and have a Command Hook on my pantry door to hold the "bag holder".

I place the bags in one at a time so that I can get them out easily enough.

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Grandma J
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February 2, 20190 found this helpful

As a whole I use of my own reusable insulated bags, but 15-20 yrs back, I took a pair of my sons/husband's blue jeans, cut off the ratty legs, ran sewing machine across the bottom, made a handle from some welting pieces and with a few cents, had a couple bags to hang on hooks in basement landing. By me mentioning to others, they purchased theirs from my sewing skills. Also what works, take a pair of child leggings...garage sale $.25.. flip one leg inside the other (doubles), sew at ankle, do a handle of any fabric/welting at the waist band, and it also gives you reusable bag..for bags or what ever. Can be cute pair or sturdy jean fabric. Anyway, in a split of a second, you got them all put away.

Our newspaper comes in a bag each morning as it is tossed to the deck. Our dog has now passed, but the newspaper bag was awesome for poop. Newspaper won't take back the bags, so I offered them up to the Doggie Park in our town. People donate in a metal box on site. The caregivers said the these smaller bags are less landfill. One trick, cut newspaper bag in half, knot one of the ends, and you still have appropriate size for sliding hand in, poop grab and still twist shut, flip to trash. We have to sort the poop to compost and the bag to non-process, easy to get done, not be fined for plastic where it does not belong.

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Jodi Murray H.

February 3, 20190 found this helpful

I recycle most of the plastic bags that come in. I use reusable cloth ones for groceries, but my husband forgets to take them, and I can't always catch him before he goes to the store.

I include the newspaper bags, but I've kept a few for shoes when we travel. When I was pregnant and throwing up all the time, I doubled a newspaper bag and kept it in my car, in case I started getting sick while driving. Thankfully, I never did.

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Anonymous

February 11, 20190 found this helpful

Great Idea!

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Anonymous

February 1, 20210 found this helpful

I save all the produce bags from the grocery store. They are great for Poop bags.

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tazfan

January 30, 20220 found this helpful

I use a brown paper bag to hold the plastic bags. You simply hold the bottom of each plastic bag and make a "stick" out of it. You need a few to get started. Grab the bottoms of about 5 or 10 plastic bags and and stand them up in the paper bag. I usually lay the paper bag on its side to get started. The brown paper bag will stand up on its own and when you need a bag you simply grab one handle of a plastic bag and you're ready to go. When you bring home more plastic bags you just slide them in. My first paper bag,using this method, easily took three stuffed plastic bags full of plastic bags.

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