Power tools for wimps

Here in South Africa, we pay for plastic grocery bags. So because I’m a cheapskate and I hate plastic bags anyway, we bought a couple of the material bags for our shopping. The problem is there is no place to store them.

So I want to hang them from the side of my pantry/ laundry cupboard. I LOVE using little-known spaces, less-obvious spaces. (Will do a post on this soon).

I have tried to put up hooks on this cupboard many, many times. Honestly! I keep trying a new version of a hook hoping that it will stay…to no avail. They all fall off.

So I got clever. Now we are not handy people like Lara and we definitely don’t own any power tools. But we do have a hammer. Dion was a bit nervous that I’d mess up the cupboard but I gave it a go nonetheless.

This is the mess of shopping bags before.




And here is the after... I was so pleased with this result; you’d swear I built a house or something. Oh but I forget – this is like building a house for someone as craftily challenged as I am.

And one more nail for good measure!

I also put up a keyholder (this was on the task list for our handyman when we next summon his very excellent services). Check how beautifully those nails are hammered in! ;)

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