Guy at Lowe's swore by those vacuum sealed bags for sheds but he was dead wrong

I was talking to this older fella in the storage aisle at Lowe's in Austin about keeping stuff dry in my backyard shed. He told me those space saver vacuum bags would work GREAT for storing my winter coats and blankets out there. Well three months later I open the shed and everything is musty and there's actually mold spots on two of the bags. Did I just get a bad batch or does everyone have this issue with those bags in a shed?

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willowr962d ago

Those bags need climate control, not a damp shed.

emma962d ago

Two summers ago my neighbor lost a whole batch of mushrooms he was drying in his garage. The damp got into everything and they just rotted. It's like with anything delicate, people think a shed or garage is good enough but it never is. @willowr96 is totally right, you need to treat those bags like they're in a lab or something. I see this all the time with people storing wine or even dry pasta, they just chuck it in a closet and wonder why it goes bad.

dylan4631d ago

Ha, yeah I used to be one of those people honestly. I always figured a cool dry closet was good enough for almost anything, but hearing about your neighbor's mushrooms rotting in a garage really drives the point home. I guess I never thought about how much moisture a garage can hold, even when it feels dry. Now I kind of feel like I gotta step up my storage game for all the random stuff I keep, not just mushrooms. This whole conversation has me rethinking things for sure.