Happy Thanksgiving to my fellow Canadians! I have so much to be grateful for, and today I'm especially thankful for all of you, who follow my blog and share your organizing ideas, tips, and questions here :)
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Think you have to spend a lot of money on costly organizing tools to get your house in order? Nope! Getting organized doesn't have to be expensive!
Throughout this series I'm sharing ideas to help you organize your home by either
- making simple organizers with things that don't cost very much OR
- using items you already have in a different way.
If cost has been holding you back from getting organized, now you've got no more excuses!
Do you have plastic grocery bags cluttering up your drawers, cabinets, closets or floors? Even if you try to bring re-usable bags to the store, there are still times when you end up with a collection of plastic bags in your home. They're great for small garbage cans or doggie mess, but it's important to have a place to store them so they don't clutter up your home.
Today I'm sharing a few cheap and easy ways you can keep those bags contained and organized!
We keep some bags in a small drawer in our basement so they can be used for cat litter and and other garbage in the basement and laundry room.
We also have a cheap plastic garbage bag holder (similar to this one) that I bought years ago at Walmart I think. It's on the wall in our kitchen for bags we use in our kitchen garbage can. You can kind of see it in this picture on the wall beside the window.
Hmmm... just typing this makes me realize I really should find a better spot for it, since it's messy-looking, awkward to reach, and not very close to the garbage can where we need the bags. Our eating area was arranged differently before, and this bag holder was hidden beside the pantry. Funny how you don't think about moving things sometimes because you're so used to where they've always been! But I digress...
Here are some
- If you have a baby or toddler, you probably have lots of empty baby wipes containers in your home. Use them to contain your plastic grocery bags!
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- Here's another option if you don't have baby wipes containers. Use an empty tissue box to store your plastic bags where you need them. You can have a few of these in different places in your home even. And if you wanted to you could decorate the box to match your decor.
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- You could do a similar thing with a cleaning wipes container, only it wouldn't hold as many bags as a baby wipes container or a tissue box. It's perfect for places like your car though where you only need a few bags.
- If you can do some basic sewing, you can sew a bag holder. Here's a tutorial I found online.
Grocery Bag Holder (you could even make it with scrap material!)
How do you organize your grocery bags? Have you DIY'd a solution? Please share your ideas so we can all be inspired!
Happy {Cheap & Easy DIY} organizing!
Here are all the posts in the series.
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