How the heck do you store bags?

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I'm talking about, handbags, shoulder bags, tote bags, backpacks, shoppers...

They are forever hanging from our wardrobe door handles, taking-up space and looking messy. I put some command hooks on the inside of the wardrobe doors, but they get overfull and the doors won't shut.

For context we have:

A fitted double wardrobe (four doors). All hanging space is taken.

A built in cupboard with shelves...again... full.

If you live in an average sized house, with no space for a dressing room. WTAF are you doing with bags?

Is the only answer to Marie Kondo the heck out of our bedroom?

I realise this is dull, but I'm currently sat on my bed surrounded by bags at nearly bedtime.

Vacuum bags for the ones I rarely use. I keep travel bags in a pretty storage box on top of my wardrobe. But I don't have too many so that might not help you! 🤔😂

In a basket on top of the wardrobe.

I have a small ish fancy bag and a nice canvas bag constantly on the go so they hang in our coat cupboard. I have a ton of fabric/ canvas bags that I store in upstairs linen cupboard and my fancy party bags are in boxes in wardrobe. But if I don't use it fairly often I sell or donate.

All my backpacks etc are shoved inside the biggest one and gets put under the bed. Shopping bags just live in the car boot permenantly.

The sad thing about vac packs is that our wardrobe top is already vac pack city (bedding, winter clothes, clothes I may never fit in again, but can't bear to part with).

The shoppers can all go on the back of the understairs cupboard door. If I clear the unused tennis rackets.

I'd guess we have two large sports/ tote bags, two rucksacks, three or four leather shoulder bags, and two standard handbags... Some of them are fancy-ish (make no mistake, none of them are Chanel quilted jobbies). But I love ALL of them, I can see a use for every single one.

Reusable shopping bags usually fold into themselves and live in a drawer in my hall.

My girls have 2-3 bags each including school bag.

I have about 4 handbags one is stuffed full of plastic carrier bags to re use. They live on hooks on the front or back of my hall storage cupboard which also stores travel holdalls and rucksacks etc.
I store the travel bags inside each other to save space. We dont actually own a suitcase but do have a large holdall on wheels which the three smaller holdalls and three rucksacks fit inside when not in use.

We also live in a flat. Space is limited.

We currently kind of go with only get a new bag when yours has worn out.

Ooo backpacks in backpacks is a good call...

Same re: the boot of our car. We also had a broken printer in there for over a month...

People come over and are like "oh how do you keep your house so tidy?" Meanwhile I'm praying they don't open a cupboard door, or peek in the bedroom.

I read the Marie Kondo book, and thought "but literally everything here brings me joy".

I have boxes on shelves in the built in wardrobe that have them all in, the more expensive ones are stuffed with my winter scarves and loose on the shelves. I have waaaaay too many handbags.

Ottoman bed. It's amazing what fits under a double one!

On the roof

How do stop them from blowing away?

Could you fit in an IKEA Kallax anywhere? I keep all my bags in one which has doors. A small Billy bookcase could also do the trick.

Ottoman bed and store them like Russian dolls, suitcases have a collection of smaller bags in, some of which may contain other bags....

I know this probably won’t help because I have a large wardrobe with one section devoted to bags.

Structured bags I keep on a shelf, I have small cushion inserts that I put inside so they hold their shape. Shoulder bags and totes I hang from a rail using S hooks. Clutches are upright on a smaller shelf using shelf dividers.

My usual go to everyday bag (a Gucci Disco) hangs on a hook on the side of the wardrobe so I can grab it easily.

I put out of season clothes up in the loft so that I have more wardrobe space.

Our bags - mainly backpacks live in the hall cupboard. DH has a shelf, the DC's on a shelf with some garden toys and mine on a shelf with the picnic stuff. Large expedition size bags (which haven't been used since before the DC) are in with the suitcases in the loft. Shopping bags in a box on the top of a shoe rack under the coats in the hall so they're easy to grab on the way out. I have a small and oddly shaped, hard to reach shelf at the top of my wardrobe (sloping ceiling) so my handbags go there.

what's under your hanging space? Could you put all the short things together to create space under them at the bottom of the wardrobe?

I shove backpacks in the bottom of my wardrobe and put occasional bags in our ottoman bed.
Anything I use regularly goes in one of these things from IKEA which lives on the back of the cupboard door in our hallway. It fits quite a few bags.

www.ikea.com/gb/en/p/skubb-hanging-handbag-organiser-dark-grey-00402417/

Bottom of my husbands wardrobe

I use a large storage box under the bed. But I don't have very many. Rucksacks hang in the understairs cupboard.

My answer would not be to 'Marie Kondo', but to only keep what you need. Do you need so many? Can some bags multi task?
If you are desperate to keep them all then bags within bags is a good call. I find too much stuff makes my life more complicated. I tend to find if I'm looking for storage solutions, I'm unwittingly gathering more stuff again.
But I realise not everyone is like me :)

Back when I had lots and lots of bags I stored them in under-bed storage boxes and in an ottoman plus some in my wardrobe and some on a shelf in the hallway. But now I only have 9 or 10 all of which are fairly expensive (though not Chanel!) so they live on shelves in my wardrobe.

I think my solution is a luxury storage idea, but it wasn't intentional. Our "dining room" (we do not need a dining room) has a small mid-centry side board. As a result of the pandemic this stopped being a dining room and became my office. I moved my handbags into half of the sideboard, the other half stores my work things. I would love to keep them in my wardrobe. Long ago when I had free standig ones my handbags lived on top of this, but that wasn't ideal as it needed frequent dusting. Now with built in wardrobes there isn't space for my handbags, but I live in hope that i will one day manage to get them back in there!

My shopping bags the plastic ones go in the cupboard. I have on the inside of the cupboard door a bag holding thing so they look neat and tidy. The actual bags for life go in the long kitchen boiler cupboard in one bag for life and the others are folded inside.

My handbags tend to live in my wardrobe. They hang off a hanger.

All my bags are stored in their cloth protective bags and on custom sleeves in the wardrobe. Most expensive at the top, working down to the everyday bags/backpacks.

Bags for life are stored inside each other, and kept under the stairs behind the panel. I have a cloth tote bag that I use for daily errands/small shopping trips, and that one lives in a basket on top of the bench in the hallway. Whatever handbag I’m using at any one time also sits on top of the bench, ready to grab it on my way out.