Please share your brilliant reusable shopping bag storage solutions

[AngelaBeverage]

My entire house is engulfed by them. Are they breeding? Perhaps I should be getting rid of all but a very few?

I usually shove them all inside the largest bag and shove that into a cupboard, but it's not brilliant. It requires a regular proper sort out.

I have suggested getting a chest to keep them in, but DH is not convinced

i bought a pop up laundry bin and try and keep the majority in the boot of the car

Shove them them in a cupboard. Throw most of them away. Keep some for n the car.

The smaller ones I fold them into little triangles and they go in a fabric bag caddy thing. The bigger bags for life just hang on the back of the coat cupboard door.

Mine are stored in my car!

Put some in your car, one at the front and back door, and then throw the rest away.

we keep all shoping bags in the car boot. Every time after unpacking either straight back to car boot or leave next to the front door so next person goes out can dump it in the boot.

All in the cars, I hate clutter in the house so the cars are my secret “Monica cupboard”

Yep they live in the boot of the car except for a couple of smaller thinner canvas bags which are in a drawer in the hallway and used for if we need to send something into school with DD or whatever. I also have a foldable cool bag in the boot for when I pick up fridge/freezer stuff on a hot day.

The boot of the car, surely? If you fold them, a lot will fit into one.

We have six Hessian shopping bags which we keep in the boot of the car. I have two cotton bags I keep folded up in my rucksack. We don't have any other bags anywhere. Why get or keep more than you need?

I have 6 bags that are all the same. I throw/donate any others that sneak into the house. Having them all be the same means it's easy to spot any interlopers. I keep them hanging on a hook on the bag of my utility room door, and in the car

Drop them into your local charity shop they will be delighted and they will be reused rather than just added to landfill

String bags solved it for us

I have a crochet string type bag from Morrisons. All folded up in there and it hands on kitchen door until I go out and then it’s put back in cat boot.
Any I use through the week get folded up and out on the shelf with shoes and keys in the hallway

We’ve got them folded in an Ikea shoe storage unit in the understairs cupboard. They’re narrow and hold quite a lot

Carefully fold as many of the useful ones as you think you might need into two bags

One to go with wherever you prepare to go out and one in the boot of your car

Give the rest to a food bank or charity shop

Stop buying more bags

I think the trick to stop them breeding is to make sure you always have one when you need one so that you don't end up with more and more.

For some people that would be keeping them in the car boot, for me it's having a couple inside my work bag so if I pick something up on my way home or on my lunch break, I have something, I also have a couple of very small ones in my handbag, I keep a couple in the backpack I usually take out for the day with the kids etc

Don't throw them away if they are reusable, ask your local foodbank if they need them.

Sounds like you need to have a cull and then use the ones you have instead of buying more. Keep them in the car.
I’ve got only cotton ones which are either on a coat hook in the cloakroom or in the back of the car.
They all mean something to me - I still use the ones my mum bought me when I went off to Uni nearly 35 years ago (!), ones that I inherited from her when she died and ones that I’ve bought on holidays etc

I keep them in the boot of the car. But I don’t have that many. Maybe about 5-6?

Why do you have so many @AngelaBeverage ? Do you continually buy them when out? If so then the car (assuming you go to the shop by car) is the best idea. Give some away (yy charity chop will have them) and keep the rest in the car, maybe a couple in the house on a coat rack or handy by the door if you can stand it.

I have something similar to this

This is the thing with 'reusable' bags. We acquire more and more of them and just place them in our own private landfill sites (cupboards, garage, etc) so they can make a trip to the actual landfill in a decade or so.

The solution is not to keep getting more and more bags. Store a couple the car, so that you never go shopping without one.

Most of ours live in my car boot, but DH is supposed to keep some in his car boot too and is always bringing them into the house, dumping them and then they end up in my car boot, he finds he doesn't have one, buys another etc so we have a lot at the moment. Also for the last three years whenever I dropped DS back at uni we stopped at the big Tesco, he did his shop using one of my bags from the car boot, took it into his room and when I moved him out last month he had about 10 of them. I'm planning to take some to the foodbank.

Other than that there is a basket on the hall bookcase with small nylon fold up ones for taking out when you don't take the car and I always keep one of these in my handbag too. If the velcro goes and they won't stay stuffed into their pouches I put them in little purses.

I keep 6 big ones in the car, two more in DH's car, and four little ones in various handbags and rucksacks.

The rest went into a big box and every time I did a charity shop trip or gave a friend something, I used one. I'm pretty much out of spares now.

BTW I dream of a matching set but can't quite bring myself to get rid of the ones I've got . . .

You don’t need more than a few - pick your faves then gradually use the others to take stuff to charity shop in and just leave them there