20 Life Hacks With Plastic Bags That Can Come In Handy

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You might be among those people who do not like to shop but have to visit a store for something or the other. The biggest side effect of shopping is probably the accumulation of plastic bags in your house. Though these are useful, at times you really get frustrated with so many plastic bags overflowing from the drawers, closets and everywhere else. However, there are ample number of things that you can do with these plastic bags and put them to a number of productive uses. Let us take a look at them:

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1. You can sew quite a few of them together and make a colorful purse with them

2. You can also use them as liners for small trash cans

3. If you have babies at home, you can use plasic bags to store soiled diapers

4. They can also be used as containers for retrieving dog poop from the yard as well. Turn the bag inside out and put your hand inside it. Make it into a makeshift glove and use that to grab the poop. After grabbing the poop, turn the bag again and the poop would automatically get inside. Make sure that the bag has no holes.

5. You can use these bags for mattress stuffing and for pillow stuffing as well.

6. You can tear a piece of the bag and use that piece to screw a cap of a bottle tightly that has chances of leaking.

7. If you have large plastic bags, you can use them to cover your lawn furniture.

8. You can use these bags to keep your wet beach towels.

9. These bags can be also used to cover cook books to prevent staining.

10. You can also use them to carry luggage when you are traveling. You can also use them to bring back your dirty clothes when coming back from a trip. You can use them to carry sandals and slippers as well.

11. You can also use them as your rubber gloves when you do not have one handy.

12. You can use them as freezer bags as well.

13. You can also use plastic bags as trash cans.

14. Big plastic bags can be used as raincoats and the smaller ones can be used in place of a rain bonnet.

15. These can be used to cover the windshield, mirrors and wipers of your car to save them from snow and ice

16. You can also use them to store clothespins so that you have these handy while you are hanging your clothes

17. They are a form of inexpensive insulation

18. You can use them for draining the bath toys. Take a plastic bag that has been punctured quite a few times and keep the bath toys there to drain the water out.

19. You can use a large sized plastic bag to keep your kid’s mattress dry. Line the mattresses with plastic bags and to reduce the effects of bed-wetting.

20. Apply petroleum jelly on your hands and place your hands inside the bag for 15-20 minutes to have soft and supple hands. This is a great way to treat chapped hands.

Plastic bags have numerous uses in varied ways. From storing stuffs to protecting them and these life hacks with plastic bags can be really useful. Also it prolongs the usefulness of plastic bags which otherwise would go waste after first use. After all, reuse comes before recycle.

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Mark Dawson

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