Exciting New Ways to Use Sealable Storage Bags

More Than Just Sandwich Bags!

Dina Montgomery
Sealable storage bags can be used for so much more than just storing sandwiches and food. These helpful little bags can do things that we may have not even thought about. You can store precious family mementos to helping protect things in and around your home to keep them safe. The uses for these bags are virtually limitless. Here are some exciting new ways to use sealable storage bags.

Exciting new ways to use sealable storage bags: Proudly display your child's baby teeth

The time is bound to happen when your child will lose their first tooth and they will want to keep it and show it off. You won't want to throw away the tooth, you will want to preserve this moment forever. You can easily place the tooth in a sealable storage bag to keep it safe and keep it from getting lost. You can store the bag in a safe place or your child might want to store it in their own special place.

Exciting new ways to use sealable storage bags: Prevent frozen padlocks in the winter

There is nothing worse than to go out to your outdoor shed or garage, to only find that the padlock has been frozen shut. To help keep this from happening to you, just simply slip a sealable sandwich storage bag over the padlock. It will keep it from freezing over and you will be able to access your shed or garage whenever you need.

Exciting new ways to use sealable storage bags: Create a handy fabric softener dispenser

This one is almost pure genius; you won't ever forget to add fabric softener to your wash ever again. Take a sealable storage bag and puncture some tiny pinholes into the bottom of the bag. When you're ready to do a load of wash, fill the bag with a small amount of your favorite fabric softener and seal the bag. Next all you have to do is throw it into the wash. The fabric softener will slowly be dispensed through the pinholes during the wash and leaving your clothes soft and clean, freeing yourself of ever having to remember to add the fabric softener.

Exciting new ways to use sealable storage bags: Mold leftover soap slivers into a new soap bar

When your soap gets down to little slivers, don't throw them away, save them and make a new bar of soap out of them. Just think of all the money you could be saving on bars of soap. Collect all of those little soap slivers into a sealable storage bag. Then you will place the sealable bag into a pot of warm water, not boiling water. Soon the slivers of soap will melt, and after letting them cool, you have a new bar of soap you can use.

Exciting new ways to use sealable storage bags: Protect precious pictures from fingerprints

You have pictures of your children or grandchildren that you want to pass around to friends and family, but do not want them to get smeared or covered in fingerprints. Just simply place a few pictures into a clear see-through sealable storage bag and let them loose for everyone to see and adore, this way your pictures will stay smudge-free and protected while they are being passed around.

These are just some of the exciting new ways to use sealable storage bags, feel free to use these ideas whenever you wish.

Sources: Extraordinary Uses for Ordinary Things book

Published by Dina Montgomery

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  • Debbie Gavazzi8/25/2010

    A few more PV love, then I'm off to get some sleep.

  • Bridget Ilene Delaney7/12/2010

    PV love :) <3

  • Jennifer Bove7/10/2010

    great ideas:)

  • J.C. Grant7/10/2010

    Brilliant! I love the padlock one in particular.

  • Bridget Ilene Delaney7/9/2010

    Our internet is being funky today. We change providers on Tuesday! Hopefully it'll be better! Cable and fast this time! Our cables been working great lately! Hope the Internet keeps working, too!

  • Marie Stine7/8/2010

    I really like the tip for the fabric softner cause who remembers the rinse cycle?

  • Dan Reveal7/8/2010

    How clever you are!! I really like reading this..:)

  • Julie Darleen7/8/2010

    Creative and practical ideas!

  • Kristie Leong M.D.7/7/2010

    You always have such great suggestions. :-)

  • John Myers7/7/2010

    Inventive!

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