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Please share your brilliant reusable shopping bag storage solutions

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AngelaBeverage · 29/06/2025 07:07

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

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Chasingsquirrels · 29/06/2025 08:55

Car footwell or boot, folded in quarters and inside a jute one. After unpacking the shopping they are folded and put into one, then left by the front door to be taken to the car next time I leave the house.
I've got a Lidl jute one, a few strong plastic ones and an Aldi cool bag type one.
Also have a load of Tesco basic bag for life ones they used for delivery/collection in the early days of covid that I rarely use - although we took quite a few of those when ds went to uni in 2021 and he still uses them for his shopping.

I very very rarely go non-food shopping nowadays, but I do have a folded basic bag for life one in my handbag.

BIWI · 29/06/2025 08:57

Somehow we’ve acquired 3 large IKEA bags (the blue ones) and one mahoosive Sports Direct one. I can’t bring myself to throw them away/give them away, because ‘they may come in useful one day’. But they never get used as they’re far too big for the grocery shopping. Hence they just live in the cupboard under the stairs, taking up far too much space.

ExtensivelyDecorating · 29/06/2025 21:13

We use the massive Ikea ones all the time, we've got about 6 of them. Mainly for laundry (empty the big basket into them and take it downstairs then out to the line and back in again), we have a small house and they take up much less space than conventional baskets. Taking stuff to the charity shop (either unload it there or swap for an empty one, they always have them). Bringing home garden waste from the allotment for the brown bin. Whenever we are having a big sort out / declutter.

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greengreyblue · 29/06/2025 21:14

I only have 3 and have one in each handbag I use. For a big food shop I have 5 rigid bags I bought years ago from Morrisons and they are stored in the boot.

mindutopia · 29/06/2025 21:40

We have a cupboard in the kitchen where the tins and spices and shopping bags live. I open it and try to throw one in before all the others tumble out. Then when I need them for shopping, I open the door and see what falls out, and then try to shove any I don’t need back in the cupboard while trying to shut the door. 🤣

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