What a Loss, Not Using Shop Bags!

Don’t you have a pile of shop bags at home?

The bags of your favorite shops, of department stores you sometimes go, of traditional sweet shops or of expensive brand shops you seldom go but got from your friends as a gift. They are strong and nice. I know you cannot easily let them go.

But the pile grows before you know. The speed you consume is far slow than you keep up. There is a good solution for this!

It’s absolutely your loss not to use such a smart shop bags!

Good Points to Re-use Shop Bags

1. You can consume shop bags of which stocks would grow more and more.
2. You can remake them as containers with your favorite shop logos.
3. You can easily change the size (especially the height) of the containers.
4. More than anything else, they are free.

As Containers

Better than keeping the shop bags in your closet, there are some other ways to reuse them, like containers and partition trays.

You may have a experience of failure such as:

• It’s bothersome to go out and buy a container that would fit your drawer.
• You bought a nice container at cost, but the size didn’t fit.
• You bought containers, but it cost quite expensive because you needed more than one.
• “Mottainai” to throw away when you have done with the containers you paid.
• The size fitted OK, but you didn’t like the color. It wasn’t your taste.

The shop bags will solve your troubles at once. Here is how to re-use.

How to Make a Container

The bottom sizes will be the size of your container.

Cut on the diagonal corners to the depth of marks.
This is only for hard paper bags. When it’s soft enough to fold in, you don’t need this process.

Cut the string holders, and fold in to the crease.
This folding process gives strength, so do not cut off the “fold in” part.

Perfect! with your favorite logo.

You can use them as partition. Or you can put your refreshment.

Maybe you have more than one bag from your favorite shops, which means you can line them up like boxes. And when they got dirty or creasy, you can throw them away without any hesitation.

Free, no hesitation to throw away and above all, you can get away with piles of shop bags which you might not use for ever. Three birds at one stone!