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Storing Grocery Bags in Dispensers
By Karen
Porter,
Editor
EasyHomeOrganizing.com
Will that be paper or plastic? (A few supermarkets still ask
that.) Whichever choice of grocery
bag (if you're given one) you make at the store will be what you have to work
with when you get home. Nobody likes to throw away grocery bags. It seems
wasteful. Some people take those plastic grocery bags back to the store, once
empty, and put them in the store's recycle bin for just that.
But if you're like me, then you often reuse those plastic
bags at home in various ways. For instance, my spouse will throw work snacks in
them when he doesn't want to tote a lunch box. In fact, the small plastic
grocery bags come in handy for toting or packing all kind of items from books
that your giving to a friend to something to carry those goodies in that you
made for your co-workers. I keep my plastic grocery bags in a white plastic
dispenser that takes up just a tiny space on my kitchen wall. When you unpack
groceries, you want to have the dispenser somewhere convenient. Mine hangs on
the wall by just two screws and has been there for many years. It looks similar
to the
Grocery Bag Storage
 from Organize.com pictured on the
left.
While my grocery bag storage dispenser is totally
enclosed except for the dispenser portion on the bottom and the opening on the
top, which is where you put your grocery bags in it, I like this one pictured here
equally. The reason is that you can pull from the middle of the stack from this
one, which has the open front, if you want a certain color bag or one that you
know is a larger or smaller size for your needs. The white plastic material
easily wipes clean.
While I keep my grocery bag storage dispenser on a kitchen wall, you
also could attach the grocery bag dispenser to the inside of a cabinet door as
pictured here. Again, just crumple the bags and push them through the top
opening. You can fit probably 10 to 30 bags depending on their size and how
compactly you squeeze them into the dispenser. Do discard any bags that have
prominent holes or tears in them since these are not useful to you.
If you have brown paper grocery bags, consider doing what
some people do--store them in the slim crevice between the side of your
refrigerator and your kitchen cabinets. (Brown paper bags also make great hiding
places and an inexpensive amusing toy for your cat to dodge in and out of.)
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