By now most of you have seen or heard of those plastic storage bags known as Space Bags, or some equivalent. While they aren't pretty (and neither will you stuff be once it's stored in one), they do work and they're pretty easy to handle. My mother put a bunch of pillows and blankets in some for me a couple years ago, and gave me extra bags to use just in case. Last week I put a king-size down comforter in one, and the results were impressive:
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| Madonna CD added for scale purposes! |
It really is as simple as enclosing it in the bag and using a vacuum hose to slurp out all the air thru the little round door in the side. I didn't think my vacuum cleaner would do a good job because the nozzle is wider than average but it all went to plan. The hard part was making sure the zip lock at the opening was securely fastened all the way.
This kind of bag is kind of nice to store away things in a pile on a shelf. The bag shown here hasn't taken on any extra air, and neither have the ones my mom sorted out for me.
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| Don't use it to store your kid, dummy! |
did i tell you how we packed all our clothes/linens/bedding like this on our move up here, but then half way during the drive the bags broke, so everything was slowly creeping into the front seats. alex took off his headrest at one point, and had a massive amount of clothes pressing against his head, hah
ReplyDeleteOh no!! Not all at once, what a nightmare!
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