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Where/how do you store your carrier bags and water bottles.

19 replies

Rainbowshit · 14/02/2023 14:09

Those two things are driving me mad. Currently both fall out all over the place

About to redo our utility so have the opportunity to put in place a better solution.

Show me what you've got?

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mycatsanutter · 14/02/2023 14:15

Carrier bags are in a little narrow cupboard and water bottles just go in with glasses

Andsoforth · 14/02/2023 14:17

Carrier bags- shopping bags? Since covid I only use the cloth ones that I can wash properly. I fold or toss them into one bag and store it in the back of the car (or on the handle of the front door)

Other bags that are acquired get used to collect and drop off donations to the charity shop.

Water bottles - I have a deep drawer for bottles and lunch boxes. I have two rows of standing bottles with drawer dividers to hold them in place, a section for boxes, a section for box lids and a section for bottle lids.

WhenDovesFly · 14/02/2023 14:21

My DD folds the carrier bags into little triangles. We then store them in a basket in a cupboard. Both sides fold in to the middle until you have a narrow strip. She then folds the strip up into triangles from the bottom upwards and then the handle loops over the whole thing to keep it secure. I've probably not

Where/how do you store your carrier bags and water bottles.
SalviaOfficinalis · 14/02/2023 14:25

Carrier bags are folded (similar picture to above) and then put in a box under the kitchen sink.

Water bottles stand up in my cereal cupboard.

Rainbowshit · 14/02/2023 14:29

Andsoforth · 14/02/2023 14:17

Carrier bags- shopping bags? Since covid I only use the cloth ones that I can wash properly. I fold or toss them into one bag and store it in the back of the car (or on the handle of the front door)

Other bags that are acquired get used to collect and drop off donations to the charity shop.

Water bottles - I have a deep drawer for bottles and lunch boxes. I have two rows of standing bottles with drawer dividers to hold them in place, a section for boxes, a section for box lids and a section for bottle lids.

Your drawer sounds exactly what I'm looking for. Where did you get the drawer dividers? Any chance of a picture?

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Rainbowshit · 14/02/2023 14:31

mycatsanutter · 14/02/2023 14:15

Carrier bags are in a little narrow cupboard and water bottles just go in with glasses

My water bottles are currently just sitting on a shelf but if one goes over they all go over and fall out.

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Rainbowshit · 14/02/2023 14:32

When I say carrier bags we actually have a mixture of bags for life and carrier bags. We won't have the patience for the triangle thing.

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ThePixiesTookIt · 14/02/2023 14:52

I'm actually losing my mind with the bags, I am very short of space and they're stuffed in a cupboard, I very very rarely buy them but still seem to have hundreds. Just this morning they all jumped out like a jack in the box. In the past I've sorted a dozen decent ones and put the rest in the shed but then mice move in, although last time I was impressed by their cleverness using the freezer bags to make a toasty winter home.
Hot water bottles are under my bed out of season and they really annoy me, lolling about in the summer doing nothing.

Cynderella · 14/02/2023 15:10

Carrier bags - very few around now, but I do the triangle folding and throw them inside my shopping bags.

Water bottles - now only have one each, mostly in use, but they stand on a deep drawer. Used to have loads, but I sneaked them all into the car, and nobody ever felt the need to go and get one, so dropped off all but two at a charity store. Two in car for emergencies that have never happened.

Rainbowshit · 14/02/2023 15:23

ThePixiesTookIt · 14/02/2023 14:52

I'm actually losing my mind with the bags, I am very short of space and they're stuffed in a cupboard, I very very rarely buy them but still seem to have hundreds. Just this morning they all jumped out like a jack in the box. In the past I've sorted a dozen decent ones and put the rest in the shed but then mice move in, although last time I was impressed by their cleverness using the freezer bags to make a toasty winter home.
Hot water bottles are under my bed out of season and they really annoy me, lolling about in the summer doing nothing.

Ha. Ours jump out on me like a Jack in the box too.

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TangledWebOfDeception · 14/02/2023 15:24

I'd get a plastic basket or crate for your bottles to stand in - high sides to keep them stable.

WhatCanWeDoNext · 14/02/2023 15:25

Carrier bags live in the car boot. Except two folded like @WhenDovesFly which are in my handbag.

BettyOBarley · 14/02/2023 15:27

I'm thinking about putting 99% of my carrier bags in my car boot as that's where I mainly need them and there are never any there - cos they are all in my kitchen cupboard 😂

Water bottles have their own little cupboard where the kids plastic plates, lunchboxes etc are kept.

TangledWebOfDeception · 14/02/2023 15:27

Carrier bags I stopped saving them all quite a while ago now - only get the odd one here and there, so they go up in the cleaning cupboard because that's where they're easy to get on the odd occasion I need one. But back in the day (in another house) I decided I really didn't need hundreds of them stuffed into a cupboard so I saved some inside one of the bags under the sink and once that was full I'd return any extra to my local supermarket.

Our sturdy bags for life/fabric bags are stacked inside each other and sit neatly next to a cabinet under the stairs.

TangledWebOfDeception · 14/02/2023 15:28

Oh yes we also always keep several bags for life in the car boot.

MsSupineLickspittle · 14/02/2023 15:30

Our carrier bags are in a stuffable dummy which has been dressed and which hangs on the back of the utility room door like, well, like a corpse.

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BarrelOfOtters · 14/02/2023 15:32

I'd get a deep pan drawer put in if you are reorganising it. Then you can pile them in. I put them on a shelf in an old freezer basket in the cupboard.

The carrier bags are rather unsatisfactorily in the sideboard in the hall and fall out of the 'bag of bags' every time you try and get one out. When I can be arsed I'll put the 'bag of bags' on the back of the under the stairs cupboard - but I have to tidy it out first so it'll close...

spiderlight · 14/02/2023 15:39

Water bottles are in a bag similar to this on top of the fridge. Shopping bags are either in the boot of the car or all in one bag in the cupboard under the stairs.

pastypirate · 15/02/2023 19:48

Put all the carrier bags in the soft plastic recycling in a supermarket.

Keep the cloth ones.

If we acquire any plastic bags at all I put them by the front door to fill for the chazza.

Fabric shoppers kept in the car.

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