How to store plastic bags: ideas and life hacks

Where to store packages in the apartment

Before arranging the storage area, sort the packages. It is most convenient to organize polyethylene containers according to their intended purpose.

Packaging	Useful for shopping, sorting things for storage or packing them for a trip. To keep the bags always at hand, store them in a kitchen drawer.
With ties	They work well as a garbage bag, so it’s better to keep them close to the trash can.
Mikey	Suitable for going to the market or to the store. They can be folded in the hallway or in the kitchen.
Paper (left over from shopping)	Can be used to store small accessories or clothes in the bedroom, dressing room or nursery.
Gift	Useful for packaging handmade crafts or as blanks for children's appliques. It is better to keep them in a dry place, inaccessible to small children, so that they do not spoil them.

Pouch with elastic at the bottom

Handicraft lovers will appreciate the fabric bag decorated with appliqué. Thanks to the elastic band, the bags will be securely fixed inside. This product will fit perfectly into the interior of a rustic kitchen.

When choosing or creating a bag, you should use colors that match kitchen textiles - curtains, potholders or tablecloth.

How to fold T-shirt shopping bags

To ensure that packages take up minimal space, you should not store them scattered. It is much more convenient to carefully fold them and place them in a small box, drawer or organizer.

How to fold a bag into a triangle

The method is quite scrupulous, however, very effective. Each bag needs to be folded separately, and then can be placed in one container.

Action plan:

Unfold the bag and place it on the table or floor.
Fold the bag in half lengthwise.
Repeat to create a narrow strip.
Fold the corner at the bottom to form a triangle.
Fold the triangles in the same way up to the top edge with the handles.
Bend the handles into the hole made from the last triangle.

Now the T-shirt bags will take up minimal space.

How to fold with a tube

Folding the bags a little faster this way. For this:

Straighten the plastic and place the bag on the table.
Bend the bag lengthwise several times to create a narrow strip.
Roll the strip around your fingers.
Wrap the resulting tube with handles to secure it.

How to fold an envelope

An envelope is convenient for folding bulky and dense packages.

Procedure:

Flatten the bag.
Fold the bag first horizontally and then vertically.
You should end up with a square or small rectangle.

It is convenient to put such blanks in a drawer or box.

One in the other

The method is suitable for storing bags in a container or tissue box.

Lay the bag flat on the table.
Fold the bag along a vertical line.
Start twisting the plastic from the bottom edge.
Stop where the handle begins.
Place the second bag folded in half here.
Continue twisting, adding one bag at a time.
Place the finished package in a container, pulling the handles of the last package out.

Textile tube

Neat and compact product made of thick fabric. Hang on a hook anywhere in the kitchen. The bags are inside, so the device looks very neat. You can sew it yourself.

How to store bags in the kitchen: DIY ideas

To organize the storage of packages in the kitchen, you can make original storage units yourself. To do this, you will need any available materials that you have at home. According to their modification, organizers can be open or closed, of different sizes and types of attachment to the surface.

Package with packages

The simplest and fastest method. Choose the most beautiful and even bag and put the rest of the bags into it, having previously folded them in a convenient way.

Bottle

Any 3-6 liter plastic bottle will be suitable as a future organizer.

To work, you will need a stationery knife or scissors, glue or a self-tapping screw for mounting on the wall, and materials for decoration.

Action plan:

Cut off the bottom of the bottle.
Attach the bottle, neck down, in a convenient place in the kitchen.
Place pre-folded bags in the organizer.
Decorate the fixture to your liking, such as painting it or wrapping it in crepe paper.

This organizer has 2 options for use:

Unscrew the lid and remove the bags from the neck.
Do not touch the bottom, cutting off only the top of the bottle. Hang the container upside down. Place and remove bags from one opening.

Cardboard

A variety of cardboard boxes will help diversify your kitchen interior. You can use milk bags, shoe boxes, or other boxes. For convenience, make a small hole in the side to carefully remove the bags without opening the box. You can beautifully decorate an organizer with bags and place it in a convenient place or attach it to a cabinet door.

Container

To store simple T-shirt bags folded into a triangle, tube or envelope, a regular plastic food container is suitable. Its volume will be enough to fit a large number of packages, and a hinged lid or latch will add convenience to using the organizer.

Dolls for packages

Method 2 in 1: storage of bags and original room decor. The peculiarity of the craft is the fluffy skirt, under which the bag for the bags is hidden. You can either sew or knit a doll yourself, or buy a finished product in a store. If the purchased doll has a small skirt, attach new, fuller clothes. Hang the doll in a visible place in the kitchen or living room, after placing bags in it.

Pouches

If the storage doll does not fit into your interior, you can simply hang a decorative bag with drawstrings. To make it you will need a rectangular piece of fabric, thread, scissors, a needle and a lace or elastic band.

Sewing options:

Sew the sides of a rectangular piece of fabric and sew the top edge to create a tunnel for the lace. Insert the lace and pull it off. Also, on the front side, sew a loop on which the bag will hang.
You can make a cylinder storage bag from narrower fabric. Cut the fabric into two long pieces and stitch them along the sides. Do not sew the top of the workpiece, just finish the edges and sew a loop for hanging. Insert a small elastic band into the bottom edge and tighten it so that the bags are easy to remove and do not fall out.

Hang the finished product in a convenient place in the kitchen and fold the pre-folded bags.

Knitted bags

If you have knitting skills, try knitting a bag for bags. For this you can use both knitting needles and a crochet hook. Come up with the size and design of the product. Cast on the required number of loops and knit enough rows for the desired length. The modification of the bag can be either with packing from the bottom or from the top.

Tissue packaging

An empty tissue package will be a convenient and practical organizer for bags. Fold the bags using the “one inside the other” method and place them in a container with the tail sticking out through a special hole. When you take out one bag, it will drag the second one with it, the handles of which will stick out from the hole. This will continue until all the bags in the container are gone.

Tin can container

From a tin can you will make a stylish and convenient organizer, similar in function to a napkin package. Fold the bags one inside the other and place them in a jar. Make an X-shaped cut on the lid for easy removal of the bag from the container.

Fabric bag on hangers

The basis for such a device will be coat hangers. You will also need several pieces of fabric, thread and needle, and scissors.

Operating procedure:

Sew a cone-shaped cover for the hanger from a small piece of fabric.
From most of the fabric, sew a bag equal to the width of the cover.
In a convenient place in the bag, make a hole for the bags and grind the edges.
Sew both parts.

The hangers will serve as the frame of the bag. With the hook on top you can hang the bag in a convenient place.

Bottle container for liquid detergent

If you use liquid laundry detergent, a great organizer can be made from an empty bottle of it. Show a little imagination and make not just an organizer from the container by cutting off a bottle, but a real decorative detail, for example, an elephant. You will need 2 identical bottles, as well as glue, scissors and decorative paints as tools.

Procedure:

Make ears from the wide side parts of 1 container, cutting them along the contour.
In the second bottle from the handle side, just below the middle, make 2 round holes.
Cut off the bottom.
Paint all pieces separately.
Insert cotton pads into the holes near the handle and form tusks.
Glue the ears to the side parts.
Draw the elephant's eyes and skin wrinkles.
Attach the organizer to the wall with the neck facing down.
Unscrew the lid, place the bags in the container and use as needed.

Useful tips

An organizer made from a plastic bottle can be turned into a kitchen decoration. This can be done using paints or fabric: apply a pattern with acrylic paints using a brush or sponge.

A fabric case can be decorated with braid, appliqués, embroidery, and using braid and decorative cord you can make handles for the bottle.

For the hallway you can make a convenient organizer for storing large bags:

Take the box.
Make 3-4 transverse partitions from cardboard.
Roll the bags into neat squares and place them in the compartments.

Storage options

For ease of use, bags of different purposes, sizes and densities are best stored using certain methods.

Gift bags

To avoid spoiling the beauty of the gift bag, choose a safe storage location. Make an original organizer for them from a container or large box. You can also keep gift bags suspended by hanging them by the handles on a hook or hanger.

Packaging bags

Small food bags are convenient to store in the kitchen. For storage you can use: a small bottle, a tin can or a tissue box. You can also make your own bag or bag from scrap materials.

Bags are an indispensable thing for any housewife. Sorting and keeping bags in a certain place is very convenient and practical. You can use many options and ideas to organize their storage. It is enough to show a little creativity and imagination.

Bag dolls

This method of storing various small items is ideal for those housewives who love handicrafts and unusual, original and creative products for the home. There are several options for fakes:

Knitting. Very beautiful dolls or animal toys can be knitted from threads using knitting needles or a crochet hook. Examples of organizers for storing small items in the kitchen are shown in the photo below for convenience. You can also try to make them yourself, coming up with your own versions of the toy.

Here you can use your imagination to the fullest and come up with something that will complement the interior of your home. It is important that the product is capacious and has a special hole for folding bags.

The organizer can be made so that in the future the toy will be useful for a puppet theater, and not just for kitchen needs.

Sewing. For such organizers, any fabric that is available at home is used. It can be plush, satin, fur, cotton or a combination of these materials. Also, to give the toy a more beautiful look, buttons for the eyes and other materials for decoration are used.

This animal doll will give you a good mood and hide the bags inside. It will look very nice if you make several of these crafts, but different ones.

A sewn regular fabric bag will be no less impressive.

Types of sachets

There are a huge variety of bags on sale, ranging from garbage bags to the smallest sandwich bags. As a rule, several types of packages are used on the farm:

Disposable small ones. Used for packing children's lunches for school and for storing food in the refrigerator.
Household portable ones. We use them when we go shopping at the grocery store. Often, forgetting to take another bag with us, we buy a plastic bag again at the supermarket. In total, a great many of them gather at home.

It’s a shame to throw it away, and it’s not recommended. Because polyethylene is harmful to the environment. It is better to save them and use them later on the farm.

Garbage. The biggest ones. They often come on a roll and are used as needed. They do not take up much space if stored in their original presentation.

For storage, different types are divided into small ones separately and large ones separately. The same applies to the material, since plastic specimens are much thicker than polyethylene ones. And paper ones cannot be rolled up at all. During sorting, it is worth getting rid of old, torn or dirty items.

Throw it away or keep it

Many people prefer not to look for a place to store packages, but simply throw them away. However, according to Novate.ru, this is a big mistake. Now we are not even talking about the fact that this is uneconomical, because for economic purposes you will have to buy new copies. The main problem is the pollution of the planet, because polyethylene bags take hundreds of years to decompose. During this time, they pollute the environment and release toxic compounds that harm the soil, flora and fauna. In addition, packages can threaten human life. For example, in the state of Bangladesh, which is located in South Asia, polyethylene products ended up in sewers and caused floods. As a result of this natural disaster, thousands of people suffered. That is why storing packages is not so much a matter of saving as a matter of wanting to save your planet.

Packaging for bulk products

If you buy cereals, pasta and other bulk products by weight, then using the neck of a plastic bottle can greatly facilitate their storage and use.

Cut off the top of the bottle.
We unscrew the plug and let the upper part of the bag inside.
We wrap the bag outward and tighten the cap.

Now it will be much more convenient for you to measure out the required amount of powder, and there will be no possibility of scattering it all over the kitchen. More visual instructions can be found in the following video.