WFMW- An easy way to corral plastic bags

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In Georgia, we still have plastic bags available at the grocery stores.  They haven't started charging us for them yet, although the legislature is kicking around the idea.  I try to use the cloth bags, but sometimes I forget or I have more things than my regular bags can hold.   I hate to throw them away, so I try to reuse them around my household. That means a lot of plastic bags gather under my sink.

Enter the lowly tissue box.  I don't know about you, but I go through a lot of these every winter.  It dawned on me a few weeks ago that the box would make a great way to contain and dispense the bags as I needed them.

The box stashes neatly under my sink. The small box holds about a dozen bags easily, which is just enough to keep me in free trash bags.  Anything more than that just gets messy to me.

A recycled plastic bag holder works for me.

I'll be sharing this post over at Kristin's We are THAT Family and with Jennifer over at Hope Studios.


Comments

Anonymous said…
That's a GREAT idea!! I mostly use cloth, but will use the plastic when I need them to line the bathroom trash cans in my boys bathroom. They make GREAT liners! Kim B.
March 18, 2011 at 8:30 PM
'Becca said…
Good tip! My family uses cloth bags almost all the time, yet somehow we are always overrun with plastic bags anyway--where do they all come from??

Another thing you can do with an empty tissue box is fill it with squares cut from old cotton knit clothing such as T-shirts. Use them instead of tissues, wash, and put back in the box. They are better than tissues in so many ways!
March 22, 2011 at 12:46 PM
krafting kelly said…
Great idea! Thanks for the tip.
March 29, 2011 at 11:21 AM
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