You’ve secured the backpack, the lunch box, the exact two-pocket folders your kid’s school requires (paper, not plastic; pronged, in navy, red and yellow only). But there’s one thing missing from your back-to-school shopping list that definitely needs to be on hand: Glad ForceFlex trash bags—limited edition Sesame Street packaging featuring Oscar the Grouch, no less.
Why? As a home editor and parent, I’ve learned that trash bags are something you don’t notice…until they tear open and leave spaghetti and banana peels on your floor. I’ve tested all kinds of brands, and so I always look to Glad ForceFlex for its flexibility and durability (especially since my family’s guilty of overpacking our kitchen bin before finally taking out the trash). The bags also have two layers of leak protection, which is helpful when a half-full yogurt or the remains of the volcano science project are tossed out.
They also feature Gain scent technology, which traps and neutralizes odors, so you don't have to smell last night's salmon sheet pan dinner as you pour milk into your cereal the next morning.
And then there's the Sesame Street collaboration. It's more than cute packaging; it can also serve as the springboard to a nice parenting hack.
