Man Uses A 'Genius' $25 Home Depot Tool To Bag Lawn Clippings Fast
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Wrestling with your lawn bags and grass clippings is overrated. It can make the already annoying task of mowing even worse. Fortunately, TikTok user schmanke shares a trick to make the task easier — and it starts with a $25 item from Home Depot that he calls genius. The solution? The KwicKan Portable Instant Container. Made from flexible yet durable ABS plastic, this rectangular sheet slides inside large bags, turning them into cans that stand up on their own.
Perhaps the biggest perk of this tool is that you don't have to struggle to hold open a bag that keeps tipping over as you fill it with grass clippings. Instead, the bag stays upright with the top open wide, so you can pour your lawn waste inside easily, with less risk of spilling it on the ground. And you don't need an extra set of hands to do it. It could even help you avoid the lawn mowing habit that could get you into big trouble: letting your grass clippings blow onto the street. Additionally, reviewers reported that the plastic sheet reduces the risk of the bag tearing when loading it.
At just 0.06 inches thick, this tool is easy to store behind a storage shelf or against a wall. It's 47 inches long and 28 inches wide, making it a good fit for all types of garbage and lawn bags ranging from 33 to 55 gallons. The reviews are mostly positive, earning the gadget a 4.7-star rating from more than 950 reviews, with 94% of people recommending the product.
Use the KwicKan instant container in your lawn bags
Schmanke shows himself using the KwicKan in a black trash bag for collecting the grass clippings from his mower. While the product works with large trash bags, it's also compatible with the paper lawn and leaf bags that many cities use for curbside collection purposes. Just be sure not to load your clippings into trash bags to send to the landfill — it's a waste of perfectly good organic material and creates methane at the dump.
Once you have an appropriate bag for your lawn waste, bring the short sides of the KwicKan together to form a curved shape — it has cutouts along the edges to serve as handles. Hold the bag open and slide the curved plastic inside. When you release it, the plastic spreads out to the size and shape of the bag. As your mower bag gets full, remove it and dump the clippings into the yard waste bag. Shake the bag after adding each load to help it settle. Then, slide the KwicKan up slowly as you fill the bag to make sure you get in as much as possible. When the bag is full or you're done mowing, gently pull the plastic sheet out.
@schmanke Genius $17 lawn care tool. I bought this little ingenious tool for only $17 bucks from home depot, and it's one my new favorite lawn care accessories – makes bagging so much easier and faster, plus holds way more debris than those other "holders". #lawncare #homedepot
Wash the sheet with soap and water if needed and let it dry before you store it. This method also works well if you're trimming shrubs, cleaning up leaves, and removing other organic debris from your yard and want to bag it. And if you want to skip store-bought mulch for a cheaper, more eco-friendly option, you could keep those bags of grass clippings and use them as mulch later.