Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Ziplock Bags: Fantastic Organizational Tools

By Jim Zargot

Ziplock bags are perfect for keeping sandwiches and frozen goods fresh. But this American invention from the 1950's were originally intended for storing pencils. Only 12 years after that a then 5th grader, Robert Lejuene showed the world that these re-sealable plastic bags could be used to slow down food spoilage.

Ziplock bags are both air-proof and water-proof, protecting anything from perishable goods to documents, jewelry, or small electronics. Ziplock bags for specific purposes such as steaming and microwave cooking are now being manufactured. However, generally speaking; these plastic bags are quite versatile in themselves, being re-sealable. Moreover, their being transparent is another feature that lends well to more uses such as organizing small items.

Medicine cabinets, with its assortment of different pills, ointments, bandages, and such could make great use of ziplock bags, where items would not only be neat but also kept free from contamination. Sewing kits with their various colored threads and needles; tool boxes with their nuts, bolts, and screws; electronic kits with its myriad of tiny resistors, transistors, and other parts are just some of the many applications where ziplock bags would prove invaluable.

These resealable bags have over a thousand different uses. These bags can not only organize your items but protect them from harmful elements as well. What's more is that these bags are reusable. All these features combined make this plastic bag ideal for the home, school, office, and for the outdoors as well.

You can't get more value for your money by investing in a set of ziplock bags, even sets of different sizes for you borderline obsessive-compulsive ones, especially if you're the type that hates waste and clutter.

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