Bag clips — anyone got any storage ideas? (Storage for, not storage using.)

[SoManyTeeth]

These things: plastic hinge, bar section, plastic catch — long ones, short ones, old ones, new ones, pricey ones, flimsy ones, oblong ones, rounded ones — so many bag clips and they need somewhere new to live.

My kitchen is minuscule with almost zero storage space. The only drawers are two small plastic ones in a drawer unit on a shelf inside a cupboard, and there absolutely is not room in there for dozens of flaily bag clips to rattle around. (We do keep the long slidey rod-type bag clips in there, though.) So the hingey bag clips currently live on the countertop between the cooker and the sink, in a click-lock Tupperware type plastic box just small enough to fit in the space between two other things, tessellated in the one specific configuration that allows all of them to fit in there, which can only be achieved by highly experienced and extremely patient 3D Tetris players. And if you want a long clip, those are at the bottom, fuck you.

There must be a better way — some fantastic but simple arrangement I haven't yet thought of that's compact, reasonably aesthetically tolerable, protected from dust/vaporised grease/moisture, doesn't require complex installation, easy to put the clips away in, easy to select the clip you want from, and also cheap.

(Apparently we do have to keep them all, because they're useful but break sometimes, and because it seems that in DP's mind they're still as tricky to get hold of as they were several decades ago and are therefore a scarce resource to be guarded. Even the useless 4cm ones which constitute the majority of the bloody things. Throwing any of them away just isn't worth the argument, and I haven't got it in me to gradually, sneakily dispose of at least a few of the crappy little ones behind his back.)

Help?

Drawstring bag on a hook behind the kitchen door? I keep mine in a mason jar but all my pastry cutters live in a bag on the back of the door (along with oven gloves, apron and a fabric carrier bag sleeve).

I bet I could get at least half a dozen on there before he twigged. And if Hilda Ogden can carry it off I'm sure he can manage.

Mine live in the drawer with the teaspoons.

I think this is what I'm going to do.

The first team and the reserves, I mean. Not being single. Though it's tempting occasionally.

😆Love it!

Also I am sorry I am have no solution, mine roam around in a drawer in the kitchen and I think the little scamps are having intimate relations of their own as they seem to keep multiplying...

I swear to God. Maybe that's why there's so many of the tiny ones.

It's got to be! Might invite Sir David Attenborough around for tea and see if he fancies making a short hidden camera documentary while he's here...

In a drawstring bag hanging from a hook on the back of a door?

You need to keep so many because they break so I think some of the less useful ones should start 'accidentally' breaking. A few at a time in the freezer or boiling water on them when partner not around then a good twisting wrench to make sure the hinge pops out . Force the small ones closed on too thick a bag to ensure they are regularly strained. Just don't let him find out where to buy new ones But I agree a piece of ribbon or tape is a good idea hung from the cup rail with a few useful sizes clipped on then the rest on the top of the cupboard or under the bed. (I use the ribbon storage to hold my hair slides it works for me)

Fine, but you realise that thanks to Arlanymor I'm now thinking of those useless little bag clips as helpless innocent babies, the light of Daddy clip's life, the motivation at the back of Mummy clip's mind as she works day after day clipping and sealing, clipping and sealing? And you want me to just snap their little backs over my knee?

😱😂Justice for baby clips! (Sorry, sorry!)

A soft storage thing with compartments you could hang on the back of the kitchen door?

I've actually got one of those, over the back of the bedroom door! Very handy — I bought it when I was living in a student room with very little storage and they have a lot of uses.

No kitchen door, unfortunately… 😅 (really — it's complicated and tedious to explain, but there can't be a door there).

I have a number of hooks screwed into the doorframe of my kitchen door for keys - could you do that, and hang a drawstring peg bag on it?

Or what about a hanging rail under your kitchen cabinets that you can hang things off?

You can also put a peg board on the end of your kitchen cabinets, or along the side of your fridge to attach hooks there as well. Like the first photo here:

https://www.organized-home.com/posts/11-favorites-pegboard-storage-organizers/

I have mine in an old large Kilner jar that has lost its lid … quick and easy to find the right size clip as it’s see thru .

Oh I love pegboards Xiao — I have a really nice one stored away that I was given when I went to live in student accommodation. I wish there was somewhere I could put it up, because I know how versatile and useful they can be, and potentially quite attractive, if that's your aesthetic vibe.

Under the kitchen cabinets is spoken for, unfortunately. Doorframe is an interesting idea but there are things (stairs, cabinets, shelves, storage) right up to the edge of the doorframe so anything like a peg bag would stick out into the doorway and drive me insane. Great idea for little narrow things like keys, though — I'll keep that in the back of my mind for the future. Thanks!

If I had those things in front of me I could probably figure it out better.

Extremely low tech...

Cut a piece of cotton string long enough to accommodate all of the clips laid out and over the string, with an extra couple of inches over.

Then get two self adhesive small hooks and affix on the back on the inside of a cupboard, high enough that you can see it and still reach it.
Stretch taut a piece of string, onto the hooks, and tie on, and then you could hang the bag clips over the twine by the inside of their hinges so that they rest and hang in an esthetically pleasing and symmetrical manner, and then you can just pick them off as you need them?

In the freezer in a Tupperware that has lost its lid is the most sensible option

@SoManyTeeth

this; if you have kitchen wall cupboards

or this

They're really handy things; I have some similar under-shelf storage thingies in a couple of other rooms. Unfortunately the kitchen cupboards are already fully utilised inside, both vertically and… front-to-backily? I make extra platforms in cupboards, with wire racks and shelves, to take advantage of all possible space. Space below the cupboards is also needed for storage/appliances/whatever, except where it's clear for meal prep. Those are some really nice-looking storage expanders, though.

Allthebest — maybe that could work, but on the cupboards that don't already have things on the insides of the doors, I think that solution would either stop the door closing, have to be fiddled with to swing parts out of the way every time, or would knock the clips onto the floor. When I replace things like crockery, baking trays, or anything else that goes in a cupboard, I have to know exactly where it's going to go, and measure up to make sure it'll fit — some plates, for example, are too big and the doors won't close. It's one in, one out.

Yes, I hate my kitchen Just as well DP does almost all the cooking, really

Oh I totally understand what it's like not to have space OP , I was just picturing my own cupboards which are smaller than the average cupboards today.
I wasn't thinking of the inside of the door because of course they will move every time the door opens and closes,hit the inside of the door fall off etc
I was just thinking of if you could find an area on the inside of the cupboard itself, on the side or at the back, you could attach the hooks at the right height so it doesn't interfere with plates and whatever else you have in there as long as you can still reach the top of the pegs you could pick them off the string as you need them and replace them after.
The string would have to be taught and firmly attached to the hooks though.
As I say it's much easier to do if I was doing it myself for my own cupboard cuz I know where everything goes.

Ah yes I see what you mean now All. It might be tricky with my cupboards, but I'll have a look and a think, in case the magnetic fridge caddy plan doesn't work out.

Yeah, it's a real pain not having much storage and not being able to add it. It's not just that you limit how much stuff you have, or which things you have (things that should be able to stack, but don't, are banned from my house), but that the way you have to store things, it's often much more of a hassle to just do stuff. Maybe you rarely need cooling racks, so they're in a cupboard you need a stepladder to get to. Or all your cake tins are stacked in a very specific order otherwise the shelf isn't deep enough, and you have to take out the whole stack (from head height) to extract the one you need. And maybe you end up giving up already-limited prep space to storage — like keeping rice and pasta "on display" in nice jars at the back of the worktop, but really it's because if you kept it in the cupboard you wouldn't be able to own mixing bowls. <sigh>

Sorry, that was a bit of a rant… 😆

I keep mine in a mug with a broken handle on the side?

I love all the different places people's bag clips end up living, many of them seemingly a bit makeshift/impromptu. Maybe they're too recent an invention to have settled into an agreed proper place.