Reusing Ziploc Bags

      We all know how annoying it can be to try to reuse a Ziploc bag once it has residual peanut butter, jelly, crumbs, and other various sauces and oils seemingly stuck along the inside. We all remember how cleaning the inside of a baggie is like trying to recover a lost favorite earring that fell down the drain. It's strenuous work for such a "disposable" item. Well, this post is aimed to show a simple tip that may make life easier. I am always trying to think outside the box to make simple tasks easier, and this time I realized I had to think inside the bag, and even inside-out! Turns out it's as effortless as washing your hands.

Here is the simple trick for this pestering problem!

*Optional* Pre-rinse by filling the bag with water as needed and dumping it out. You can also let the baggie soak instead of pouring it out, but it shouldn't be hard to remove anything in these steps.

1. Turn the baggie inside-out.

2. Wear the baggie like a glove. Point your thumb and your pinkie-finger outward to hold the corners in a locked position for easier cleaning. *Kind of like making the pretend phone when you were little.

3. Now wash your hands as if there was no baggie surrounding one hand. You can put the soap on the bagged hand or your free hand, it doesn't matter. *Make sure to maintain the pretend phone position while washing to get the corners sufficiently.

4. Rinse as you would if you were washing your hands.

5. I personally like to shake the dripping baggie at this point because it gets it about 90% dry instantly.

*See how instantly near-dry that gets just from shaking?

6. That's it! Let fully dry if desired and then flip inside-out again to reuse!

Hopefully this helps anyone who was in my position, a person who is REALLY unmotivated to clean messy Ziploc bags, but at the same time REALLY motivated to not throw them away.

*Remember* Disposable items are not our friends unless we reuse them anyway and give them hope!! :)