These Limited-Edition Glad Trash Bags Are the Back-to-School Essential Creators Love

There’s a lot of pressure on parents when it comes to shopping for back-to-school. But beyond the backpack, lunch box and ultra-specific two-pocket folders your kid’s school requires, there’s a parent-facing (and kid-friendly) essential that is often overlooked: Glad ForceFlex trash bags. But here’s the twist. Just in time for back to school, they come in new limited edition—and totally clever—Sesame Street packaging that features Oscar the Grouch. And these three creators can’t get enough.

How come? The bags have two layers of leak protection and also feature Gain scent technology, which traps and neutralizes odors, so you don’t have to smell your kid’s leftover lunchbox remnants the next day. And with Oscar the Grouch in the mix, adding it to your back-to-school list is even more fun. Here are all the ways these creators included this top item in their own routines. (Psst...you can find the Oscar the Grouch Glad packs on the endcap displays at Target stores nationwide, starting at $13 per package.)

Snacks, dinner, arts and crafts—somehow the kitchen works overtime during back-to-school season. To help keep up with her post-bedtime cleaning routine, which she refers to as the “closing shift,” creator Kia Matthews makes sure she keeps Glad ForceFlex trash bags on her Target shopping list. She was especially thrilled to see the limited edition packaging featuring Oscar the Grouch. “[It’s] such a fun back-to-school touch and, on top of that, [my daughter] Mia is obsessed with Sesame Street, so she lit up the moment she saw them.”

Come back-to-school, creator Lisa Flom says it feels like there’s always another mess to tackle. That’s where Glad ForceFlex trash bags come in. “They're strong enough to keep up with our busy days and the Fresh Gain scent helps keep the kitchen smelling fresh,” she says. (Like we said, this comes in extra useful when emptying the uneaten contents of her kid’s lunch pail.)

File Glad’s limited edition ForceFlex trash bags featuring Oscar the Grouch under: Daesha Rena’s favorite back-to-school finds. “A full day in my house with the kids always guarantees a full trash bag at the end of the day, so I need my trash bags to do every single thing that it claims to do,” the creator says. “Just look at how stuffed this bag is with no tears, thanks to Glad’s ForceFlex technology that lives up to the hype of resisting rips, punctures and even leaks because of its two-layer extra Flex protection.” It’s just what parents need to contain the mess come back-to-school.