It all starts out fine. You've got a couple spare plastic trash bags from the store you want to use as receptacle in your waste bin, so you put it in and wrap it around the edges, nice and neat. But by week's end when you need to empty it out, the plastic bag's edges have disappeared, somewhere under those crumpled pages of your first draft of the great American novel, a used tissue from your allergy attack, and a half eaten Kit-Kat bar (halfway through, you remembered your New Year's resolution). Yuck, indeed. Evan Gurgui's BagFix concept takes care of that issue with a simple but awfully smart "anchor point for the handles" which secures the bag into place and preventing it from falling into the deep recesses of your garbage bin. A simple tip of how to make your own below...
Look: Evan Gurgui's BagFix
...And How to Make Your Own
Yeah, we know, "this is a concept and we can't buy it!" We hear you and we have a very simple and affordable solution. So simple, we're doing it ourselves with our kitchen trash bin where bag slippage happens the most often and with the worst results.
The solution are these super affordable stick-on plastic hooks that are available online for $1.99 each; just install them on opposite ends, with hooks facing down and latch on the bags. We're almost sure we've seen for even cheaper at our local 99 Cents Only Store, so we're going to head on over as soon as the rain let's up and make our own "BagFix" and set our garbage bin straight.
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Thanks for this post. Totally a DUH moment. I'm adding it to my list for the next time I'm out running errands.
view racheloncegentry's profile
I have one of these! I bought it at Home Depot 4 or 5 years ago. I dump out the trash and keep the same bag for as long as possible. Love it.
view sjj40's profile
Duh moment is right! How did I not think of this already??
view Ina's profile
Or you could just buy this and your trashcan won't look like a trashcan with two sticky hooks on the sides:
http://www.simplehuman.com/products/trash-cans/bathroom/grocery-bag-can.html
view Allsunday's profile
I've used this one from the Container Store for three years and it's $5.99.
http://www.containerstore.com/browse/Product.jhtml?CATID=77808&PRODID=64996
view phoneill's profile
thats so smart and i never would have thought about it! the bag always falls inside and it drives me nuts!
view eribear12's profile
rubbermaid makes a version of this that I got at Walmart... I do like the DIY idea though.
view wendy-rae's profile
don't plastic grocery bags leak. They have small perforations in the bottom. yuk. I never use them for garbage.
view peachpie's profile
Yet another money wasting idea. Surely adults can solve this problem for themselves.
view silversurfer's profile
is this seriously a problem that needed solving? I've used grocery bags as liners in every room of my house since I was born and have NEVER once had the bag fall into the "deep recesses of (my) garbage bin". And honestly, how deep could it be if you're using a grocery bag? I could see this being useful for large outdoor bins but not small ones.
view Enamorada's profile
Well, I for one am going to try this all you Negative Nancies!
view Zhahira's profile
How about a solution for those of us with no space for even little garbage cans? Unfortunately I am currently doing the "hang the bag off a knob" thing, which is not the most civilized thing to do...
view hejiranyc's profile
The problem with the one above and some of the others folks linked to is that none have lids. I use shopping bags for my kitchen garbage, and I don't want that to be open top all the time.
And, yes Enamorada, at least for me and a half-dozen friends I had a conversation with at a dinner party last week, it is absolutely a problem. The bag slips a little and then you are just throwing sticky trash down the sides into the bin itself.
view amt230's profile
Zhahira, that's offensive to Nancies.
view silversurfer's profile
Brilliant!
view rockypondgirl's profile
Isn't there a bag tax coming soon? I hope so. I am already using reusable totes when shopping. That is whenever I don't to carry them - which is not often.
view Schniffy's profile
You talk about this at dinner parties........deep.
view peachpie's profile
Bag Tax? At Aldi, they charge a nominal fee for grocery bags. Something like fifteen cents each. I notice a lot of people bring their own reusable bags to Aldi. So it seems a small fee would encourage people to reuse bags (and in theory, it should save those customers money too).
view StudioStarter's profile
Instead of the plastic hooks, you can use a big rubber band to hold the bag in place. Just put it around the outside and near the top of the can, with the bag underneath. Staples has a 24-pack for $3.29. I've also seen them at Bed Bath & Beyond.
http://www.staples.com/office/supplies/p1_Oversized-Rubber-Bands_202553_Business_Supplies_10051_SEARCH
view lilspicy's profile
Turn away, because I'm about to drag out a soapbox, a little one, but a soapbox. If your negative comment contributes to a solution, fine. If you make it just to be negative, please keep it to yourself. Not nice, not helpful, self-serving. I think such pointless nastiness has reached epidemic proportions in this country. Maybe others, too, but I couldn't say that from experience.
view 39520expat's profile
I reuse or recycle grocery bags, so I see nothing wrong with accepting them in stores. (I have totes, that I usually forget to take them along shopping, but I really NEED some disposable smallish bags for cleaning out the kitty litter and so on. Any extra I can either take to the recycling centers at the supermarkets or take to work for library patrons to use on rainy days.) If they charge a bag tax, I suppose I will have to pay it...
view SherryBinNH's profile
I love all these products that are coming out that are cashing in on our guilty conscious to make us buy "green". The amount material and time and energy put into producing and shipping these products for retail totally negates any "help" you might feel you're doing by reusing your frigging Safeway bags. Well done.
view broccoli's profile