Neat space-saving origami bag trick

Mar 30, 2007 13:35

This is going to sound a little insane but I just figured out how to fold a bag after five years of struggling. And I couldn't be happier.

Let me explain.

A few years back I used to live with 2 Japanese roomates who were very neat as opposed to me, I'm ashamed to say. Anyway, they used to fold our shopping bags into these neat and tiny triangles that took up only a third of the space when unfolded. It was so neat and I unfortunately never got around to asking how it was done. Worse, I had lost contact with them and struggled mercilessly to figure it out on my own, not even being able to find anything about in on the net.

Five years later, I tell Jason about it, he goes on the internet and five minutes later produces a link that tells you step by step how to do it...and it works! (And from a british website no less!) I just spent half an hour folding bags in this fashion and it's amazing how relaxing it can be.

Some of you may already know how to do this (and shame on you for not sharing) but because it was such a head-scratcher for me for the longest time I will provide the link for you all now. Get folding!

plastic shopping bag origami
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