14 Tips and Tricks for Your Trash Can and Bags

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Really Easy Paint Container Cleanup

Use your extra trash bags as bucket liners liners to make a five-gallon paint bucket. This tip is especially helpful when working with messy materials such as paint or grout.

Place the trash bag inside the five-gallon bucket and make sure there’s enough bag left over at the top so it won’t collapse inwards. When using this handy hint with paint, tie the bag shut to use for another day of working on your project. And once you’re done, poke a hole in the bag to drain the paint back into the paint can. This makes for easy clean up!

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Drill Holes in Your Trash Can

When a trash bag fits tightly around the rim of the trash can, it forms a seal. This leaves a new bag bubbled up and hard to fill, and makes a full bag hard to remove. A few 1/4-in. holes drilled into my plastic trash cans solves both problems. – Jim Manning.