true confessions

re: wall-mounted grocery bag holders

We use a milk jug for the same thing.
- rightwingprof


I've got a cloth one that hangs on a door knob. I love it. My husband thinks I have a bag problem.

I'm a bag hoarder. But I don't want to re-use them in case I don't have enough. So, I just collect them. Just in case.

There's probably a special medication out there for something like this.
- Susan S


I store mine in empty kleenex boxes. That way I can hoard both plastic and paper.
- anonymous


I use a 2L bottle with a hole cut in the side (flame the edges of the hole so they aren't scratchy). With two young boys around, I go through lots of plastic bags, and we haven't even hit "play in the fountains" season yet.

As for dog bags, we decided the odds of holes in re-used bags was too high, and instead buy them online 1000 at a time: http://www.leisuremore.com With two large dogs, this is so worth it!

And don't knock the sensor trash can. Our dog figured out how to open the lid on our step-can, so we decided to try the sensor can. He's skittish, so when the lid opens he runs away. We're hoping that he won't desensitize and figure out it's really a self-serve buffet. Our back-up plan is to block the sensor and use the open/close buttons.
- Stephanie Ozenne


My problem is: I have a solution that isn't working.

I store my newspaper bags in a King Arthur Flour small flour bucket, which I keep outside, in the front of the house.

The bags never make it out to the bucket, because.....it's too far away, I guess. And it's cold out, etc.

I need to move it indoors.

Clearly.