[Karen]

In order to live more frugally, I’ve started reusing zip top bags, the quart and gallon sizes.

I don’t like stuff cluttering up my kitchen counter tops and wondering the best way to keep them organized while waiting for them to be washed (do I just throw them under my kitchen sink?) and then drying them after they are washed because they are all over my kitchen counters drying and it seems like they take a day to dry.

Is there a better way to do this?

[Diane]

I turn them inside out to dry and sometimes hang them on a cabinet door with a clothes pin.

I have a dish drainer in the sink and put them over a spatula which helps them dry faster.

I don’t save the ones that have had meat or greasy foods.

[Debra]

I wash as used and put them on chopsticks stuck in a tub of rocks on the counter. I’ve used this tub for 15 years at least

[Michaela]

I wash instantly, and then take a clothes pin to pin them to the rack in my laundry room.

[Helen]

I use a glass jar with wooden skewers in the jar and hang the bags on the skewers to dry

[Lori]

Nope!
I drape them over things like the phone stand and hand lotion

[Kelly]

I don’t use many, but when I do I thoroughly clean it and then I fill it halfway with water, seal well and put it in my freezer.

This way if the power goes out my food stands a chance.

We had a hurricane and my food as well as my neighbors food stayed frozen for a long time.

when you take these bags and you put water in them and you freeze them and you put them in the nooks and crannies of the freezer you get enough in there it’ll definitely keep it cold.

[Karen]

I use the baby bottle drying rack from when my kids were little (they’re 20 now).

[Laurie]

I use a baby bottle counter top drying rack. I bought it specifically to dry my silicon reusable bags.

[Stacy]

I have hung them on one of those things you can dry socks on with the clips. Turn them inside out.

[Abbott]

I have an over the door hook rack that I got at the Dollar tree. I put that on the back of my laundry room door. I wash the bags as I use them.

As I am walking to the laundry room to hang them on a hook, I use a dish towel, just to do a quick dry.

I shape the bag with the mouth as wide-open as possible and then cloths pin it onto the hook.

I just let it dry as long as it needs to.

You could also put several short clothes lines on the back of the laundry room door with command strips, and close pins,
and hang.

[Mary]

I clip mine to a clothes hanger with pins and hang it off a curtian rod

[Kathy]

I have small basket on my counter near the sink that I put the bags that need to be washed. Air dry on my rack then store in my drawer with other wraps

[Rowena]

I wash ziplock bags and, when dry, tuck them into an empty kleenex box. We variously re-use them for food or keeping other items together e.g.

paper clips, elastic bands,nuts and bolts, etc.

Yes, re-use quality paper towels – rinse and they dry quickly.

[Kathleen]

Turn them inside out, shake them out and put them into your clothes dryer on the “NO HEAT” or “AIR DRY” cycle.

[Sheila]

I use hangers with clips on them (for skirts/pants) I fluff them up and dry out on the hanger and then fold & put in a drawer – I wash them out immediately when they become empty.

It hangs in my pantry!

[Carole]

There is a cool item that is used over a heat vent to dry mittens and boots. You can find it at second hand places usually cheap.

That would work great.

For some reason I can’t paste the amazon link but they are expensive there anyway.

[Peggy]

I use the little round dbl stick circles stuck to the underside of my kitchen cupboard. Space them almost the width of a bag apart.

Dry a corner of the bag and place on the round sticky.

They hang and dry quite nicely.

[Cheri]

I usually only have a couple at a time, but if I have more, I hang them from a hanger with clothespins, upside down, and hang in the laundry room on a pole that’s used from drying my clothes that are only partially dried.

You could also hang them on the inside of a shower rod.

I put 2 to 3 on a hanger, hung on an angle. They dry quickly.

[Becky]

I remember my grandmother used foil for just about everything we use plastic bags for. She would wipe the foil, fold, and put into a kitchen drawer.

It dries fast when wiped and folds small not taking up much room.

[Molly]

I use silicone ones because they last longer and are dishwasher safe. They do still sometimes need extra dry time but I put them inside out over a glass on my counter or inside out and wipe them with a clean cloth or paper towel and then store them flat in a cabinet or drawer.

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