Saturday, August 22, 2009

As Seen on TV!

Have you ever tried these? You're supposed to be able to shove lots of stuff into a bag and then vacuum all the air out and have a nice flat pack to store. Well I was willing to give it a try.....And I like it! Now keep in mind I think they exaggerate a bit...there's no way any old regular vacuum is going to suck all the air out and make the bag flat. It's just not possible as they show in their picture on the front of the box. However it does say triple your storage space and I definitely have tripled my storage space!

Take this bag for example. It contains a queen sized winter comforter duvet.
This is what the bag looks like after I used the vacuum on it.

This bag contains one twin comforter, two twin sheet sets, 1 flannel twin sheet set, one bed skirt, two pillow shams, one queen duvet cover, and two pillow cases.

We had so much fun playing with what we could shrink we ended up shrinking the above items plus:
2 pillows, 2 baby blankets, 1 crochet throw blanket, 1 queen jersey sheet set, 1 queen fleece sheet set, 11 sweatshirts, and 5 extra blankets. I still have half of the bags left! I think it's a good sign that I'm running out of ideas of what to shrink.

3 comments:

Gretchen said...

I always wondered about those bags and if they really worked...I guess I might have to get some. You can organize and have fun at the same time! Does it get any better than that??!! :)

Lisa said...

Hmm...I may have to pass this tip along to Alycia & Trevor.

Alycia Grayce (Crowley Party) said...

So my mom helped me and Trevor move in a couple weeks ago and she bought some of these and was soooo excited, she goes "Mandy and Peter had these I read it on their blog and you HAVE to try them!" haha we had a very fun time sucking up the air with the vacuum etc. So thanks for your blog info it helped us save alot of room! :)