{"id":8111,"date":"2012-04-10T22:56:19","date_gmt":"2012-04-10T20:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.breigh.com\/wordpress\/?p=8111"},"modified":"2012-04-10T23:01:03","modified_gmt":"2012-04-10T21:01:03","slug":"vacuum-bags-where-have-you-been-all-my-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/archives\/8111","title":{"rendered":"Vacuum Bags, Where Have You Been All My Life?!"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the challenges we often face living in a small flat is making the most of the space we have.\u00a0 We had originally planned to be out of this flat years ago but there was no knowing what was going to happen with the housing market.\u00a0 We\u2019ve outgrown this place, but we are stuck for the moment so some sacrifices have had to be made, and I\u2019ve had to try to put a little more imagination into storage and the use of the space here.<\/p>\n

A few weeks ago I was at Xenos<\/a> and saw these bags that are like giant ziploc bags.\u00a0 You put loads of stuff in them and suck the air out with the vacuum and it\u2019s supposed to be great for saving space.\u00a0 I decided I\u2019d think about it and maybe go back for them a little later, when I was making the winter \/ summer clothes switch.<\/p>\n

You see, I have enough storage in our bedroom for our summer clothes, or our winter clothes, but not both.\u00a0 Twice a year I basically gut our cupboards and reorganize them for the coming season. It gets annoying but that\u2019s just how it is.\u00a0 The problem has always been what to do with the things we aren\u2019t using.\u00a0 In the past I\u2019ve even resorted to putting the clothes in marked garbage bags in our storage room in the basement but that was never really ideal and I have a sneaky suspicion that 1-2 bags may have gotten thrown out by mistake.<\/p>\n

So I decided to go back and pick a few of those vacuum bags up and see if they lived up to all the hype.<\/p>\n

THEY SO DID!\u00a0 It was shocking, like\u2026 TRULY shocking!\u00a0 I took photos.<\/p>\n

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The above photo is the largest sized bag with a 180×200 duvet, a 220×240 duvet and four feather pillows.\u00a0 Look at what that sucker turned them into\u2026<\/p>\n

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BAM!!\u00a0 Duvet pillow pancake!!<\/p>\n

Of course I was loving this and now want to squish everything in the house.\u00a0 I mean, I\u2019m pretty sure my husband would even fit into the extra large bag.<\/p>\n

I bought a package of two slightly smaller bags as well.<\/p>\n

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\nThis is one of them holding my two sets of winter fleece sheets.\u00a0 I love these sheets, it\u2019s like sleeping in a cloud<\/em>!\u00a0 The only problem is that they take up an obscene amount of space.\u00a0 Space I do not have.<\/p>\n

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\nVacuum bag to the rescue!\u00a0 After squishing this down I was able to fit this bag of sheets, plus three spare blankets into a drawer that I used to be lucky if I could stuff one set of the fleece sheets into.\u00a0 Niiiice.<\/p>\n

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This bag was stuffed to the gills. It had all the winter sweaters we were putting away for the winter, thick winter socks, winter jackets, a spare blanket, and all our hats, gloves and scarves.<\/p>\n

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That one didn\u2019t go quite as flat but man oh man it was as hard as a rock and weighed a ton!\u00a0 It lives under our sofa now, together with the duvet bag, and you\u2019d never even know it was there.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m seriously on the lookout for other things I can space-save these bags.<\/p>\n

One thing I do know is that I\u2019m definitely using them to help with packing when I return from my next trip to Canada. WHY did I not think of that before?!<\/p>\n

So if you are like me and don\u2019t have as much space as you\u2019d like, and if you live in the Netherlands my guess is you probably are, you must get your ass to Xenos (or Blokker, Kijkshop or any of the other regulars) and pick yourself up some of these bags.<\/p>\n

OH! I just realized, they\u2019d be great for packing our camping stuff too. See, the ideas never stop!<\/p>\n

I also just realized that it\u2019s possible I\u2019m entirely too excited about a plastic bag, but whatevs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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