Lovin' to Organize: Plastic Bag Touchdown

We save our plastic grocery bags to use in our trashcans.  Most of our community seems to hate those poor plastic bags but we love them.  Not only do they fit great in the smaller trashcans that we have throughout our house but they also save us from having to buy additional plastic garbage bags.  Usually after our trips to the grocery store, the bags get wadded up and thrown under the kitchen sink.  But no longer is that the case after I opened the cupboards and had them practically explode on me.  I figured there had to be a better way to store them that would make them easily accessible but not allow them to take over.

So as usual, I turned to my various sources on the Internet and found someone who mentioned that you could fold plastic bags into triangles like you would a paper football.  I decided that I'd try it and so I grabbed a handful of my overflowing stash of bags.

To my surprise, it worked!  And now every time I have an empty plastic bag I just fold it up into a football and throw it in the Ziploc bag that now stores all my extras.  They stay folded and are easy to grab.  I've actually started keeping one in my purse just in case I need an extra bag for something.

I thought it was fairly easy to figure out how to fold these (I showed my mom and I think she thought I was crazy!).  However, not everyone grew up with paper football folding brothers so comment below if you want step-by-step instructions added to this post.