Shopping Bag Wallet

Some cutting, some folding and 2-4 stitches and you'll have a virtually indestructable wallet with a very suprising design. The wallet is made of one of those very strong reusable shopping bags. They are made of woven polypropylene and come in endless designs. And so comes your new wallet!

This tri-fold wallet is light weight, is very thin, can take up to 12 credit cards and even got a change compartment.

This is all you need:

Shopping bag
needle and thread
piece of double sided tape

Step 1: The cutting

Cut out the shape of your wallet according to mentioned measures. For design purposes note that the left and right quarter of the shape will be the inner lining of your wallet, so the middle part of the shape will be the viewable part of your wallet.

Comments

[legokid12]

this looks so cool i am thinking about using one of my lego land bags.

[Lomns]

Weird

[Cereleste]

I just made one out of the thinner kind of plastic some stores use. It works great. I'm going to make another one, but I'll line it with paper to make it stronger. Also, for US currency, I find that the dimensions 22cm by 32cm work best. I also taped a rectangle to one side, cut out the inside, and put clear packing tape to make a window for my student ID.

[craftcycle]

is that a forever 21 bag? or something of that texture?

[jmackenzie2]

Where did you get the bag you used here?

[95Nathan]

It's a Dutch traveling company, 'Arke.nl, dacht 't wel'. (www.arke.nl)

[komecake]

  Yaaaaaaay! I just made the paper wallet, but this is so much more durable and realistic since it'll be much longer lasting. I have a green plastic bag under my bed as we sweet... too bad I have to bake so many cookies tomorrow, but SOON! BWAHAHAHAHA!!!

[Foaly7]

I'm designing the coolest wallet I can think of, almost every part of it will be upcycled. I think I'll use this design and alter it a bit to use it with a different material.

[chinchymork]

This is good but if you put waxpaper in it then iron it for a couple of seconds it would be better!

[lipslap]

i just did moment ago .. yippe!! but your size is too big for me .. maybe bank in my country (Thailand) is smaller but thank you so much by the way :-)

[lilstinkerr]

oooh, this is great, can't wait to make mine.

[lacrosse2man]

is this a wallet that can turn into a bag or a wallet made from a bag

[laserhands]

this is awesome because the diagram includes the metric system.

[Spritegeezer]

Wonderful idea and very well explained. I wonder if anyone has done something like this with the cloth bags grocers sell to use instead of paper?

[GorillazMiko]

Great job! This came out rather nicely, I look forward to trying this out. +1 rating.

[duck-lemon]

You got a new pic. I know this cos you posted on just about every instructable on this website!

[Doctor What]

Yeah. He's an instructo-maniac. And it is a wonderful wonderful thing.

[duck-lemon]

i think he should have the priveleges like kiteman.

[Doctor What]

Then he would take over!

[duck-lemon]

And........... Oh yeah!

[Doctor What]

Pop goes the weasel.

[dancingmonkey]

Hey, what recycling code is printed on the bags you find work best with this project? Mite help narrow down the selection in my collection ...

[holomorph]

Nice instructable, but umm, 6 credit cards?! Yikes!

[=D]

now to find a nice, durable, colorful bag to make a wallet with. sweet instructable! now when i make this one, i wont hafta worry about my current wallet (another gnarly home-made one made from paper) catching on fire or getting wet. gonna use this and be the envy of all! once again, sweet instructable.

[fungus amungus]

You should enter this in the Pocket-Sized contest.

[tacky-treasure-hunter]

I have been saving my giant dog food bags, now I know what to do with them! Very good Instructable.

[Jack of Most Trades]

A good source of woven-poly material in the US is bird seed bags. Open up both ends and peel the heat-sealed seam, and then you have a large piece, sometimes with interesting graphics on it.

[PocketSized]

This looks cool. I'm going to have to give it a go sometime. Well done...

[DIYmaster]

Wow, this is simple and easy. Favorited so remember to do it this weekend.

[gmjhowe]

Nice, well thought out. and it looks both durable and cool