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I am so excited about this! I don't know why it's never occured to me before, but this method of folding bags is going to save me so much space. Yay AT! And Europe!

So awesome. I may have to spend my evening folding plastic bags so that they don't explode from my plastic-bag-cabinet every time I open the door.

I have been using this bag storage to reuse system for a long time and it's great. Bags use little space and the place where you store them looks neat too.

This seems way too time consuming for something most people only save to scoop kitty litter or line trashcans (or as weekend travel luggage if you're ghetto like me).

I just made an adorable fabric tube that pinches in at either end with ribbon to hold my bags. I color coordinated with my kitchen and I hang it on a peg. When that fills up I know that my bag retention rate is far exceeding my use of them....so I recylce the rest or I'd become overrun with them. Walmart lets you recycle bags right inside the door. Or, I try to step up my rate of remembering to bring canvas bags to the store with me. I decorate my bags with funky clipart on iron-on transfers so they are fun to carry.

I like this idea. The hubby insists that he save all our plastic bags for when he takes out the trash, but he has no sense of regulation. I hope he thinks it as ingenious as I do when he opens the Email I've just sent him.

I use a plastic bag sleeve that I bought at Bed Bath & Beyond. I've affixed it to the inside of one of my kitchen cabinet doors. It's durable, convenient, and out of the way.

http://www.bedbathandbeyond.com/product.asp?order_num=-1&SKU=13955239

My husband *already* thinks I'm obsessive-compulsive when it comes to all matters domestic, I can just imagine him coming home to me in the middle of the living room floor doing origami with our storehouse of plastic bags. I guess it's cute if you only have the need for the occasional bag...? [shrugs]

I finally bought a little nylon bag that stuffs into a little pouch for my purse. I remember to use canvas bags at the grocery store, but it's those little errands like to the drugstore, etc. that I'd end up using plastic.

I'm trying to avoid getting these bags altogether, but need them for trash (perfect size for small bin). Has anyone used any of the BioBags? I'm considering buying the grocery bag size and bringing my own bags to the store (this folding tip would be perfect for that) and also use them for trash. As I would have to place a fairly large order, my concern is that bags made from corn (no matter how far removed from its natural state) will attract pests.

I just got home from work, and of course I had to try it. Too bad that I only had two bags!

Once, someone who stayed at my house twisted them into little "bagels." I've had to try to reproduce by trial and error. But I've hated these plastic bags since I saw that film American Beauty, where the bag at the end is floating and beautiful, but basically TRASH littering the street.