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Shopping Bag Backpack

Shopping Bag Backpack
Here's how to take free materials and easily turn them into a functional, useful backpack.
 
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Step 1Don the Bag

Don the Bag
Insert one arm into the handle of the shopping bag.

It's helpful to have slim shoulders, but any will do.

Otherwise appropriate modifications to the bag are possible. That is, rip the bag if it doesn't fit.
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11 comments
Jul 31, 2007. 8:04 PMafrican_andy187 says:
Hey man I see the picture of you on the bicycle is that in san fran coz i swear that looks like the place where they film mythbusters when they break big things! andy
Aug 1, 2007. 5:33 AMafrican_andy187 says:
AWESOME!!!what is it?like an old airport or something?are you allowed to visit their workshop m5 industries?yeah i kiteboard!
Jul 31, 2007. 3:20 AMtheRIAA says:
don't do this. It cuts off the circulation to you're arms. I've tried
Jul 31, 2007. 12:10 AMTABRadi0 says:
"And the Noble Peace Prize goes to......Stasterisk! For his grocery bag innovation, a plastic bag backpack!" In all seriousness, at least he didn't take a sharpie and write "backpack" on the bag or something similar so he could distinguish normal trash from his prized backpack.
Jul 31, 2007. 1:33 PMongissim says:
That would have at least added another step to attempt to modify the bag somehow.
Jul 30, 2007. 11:54 PMkomies says:
You.... didn't actually do anything with the bag. You just put it on your back. :/
Jul 31, 2007. 12:42 AMtipsychimp says:
agreed
Jul 31, 2007. 12:21 AMJakeTobak says:
I would DESTROY that bag if I tried to put it around my back. Think, "David Banner, I just slashed your tires."

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