Things that you can seal in plastic besides food items
A vacuum sealer is used both personally and commercially to keep products fresh and immune to bacteria. These are great products to have to extend the life of food items that sit on a shelf or in a freezer.
With just a stroll around the kitchen, you can locate a bunch of bags that have already been open, containing potato chips, cereal, crackers, and cookies. Using a hand held bag sealer you can quickly reseal each open bag to keep your food items fresh. However, you can only use a bag sealer to reseal an existing bag if you have a setting on your sealer to do that. Otherwise, you will be creating a plastic bag for food products that don’t need them.
But with a hand held bag sealer, you can seal much more than just food items. While you do not have to worry about non-edible objects expiring and decomposing, there could be some items in your home that you want to protect from the surroundings of your basement, your attic, or another storage room. Here are four things you can seal in plastic so you can keep them in perfect condition.
1. Important Documentation
Perhaps there are important documents you have that you would like to preserve for the long term future. A bag sealer can add an outer protective later to keep these documents safe from moisture, dust, dirt, and hazardous materials.
Perhaps you need a safe place to keep your birth certificate, or you want to keep a passport protected until you need it for a trip. Sealing these important items in plastic wrap is a sure-fire way to keep them safe.
2. Family Pictures
While it may not be as popular today, some families still enjoy physical prints of photos. You may not have picture frames for all your photos, but sealing them with a hand sealer will keep them safe and allow them to look professional. Even if you have many pictures stored in an old photo album, why not shrink wrap the whole album opposed to sealing each picture individually? You would like to keep all of your memorable pictures, so be sure that they are protected by using a hand sealer. To avoid color pictures from fading, avoid storing them in a damp or humid place, and choose to store them in a room that is of room temperature.
3. Collectables
We all liked collecting cards as children, whether it was baseball cards, or cards for battling. For collectors, hand sealers are great for sealing rare magazines, comic books and collectable cards that you will likely never touch again for a long time. You can buy a very expensive “premium” case for each rare collectable you own, or you can protect each collectable with shrink wrap for free. Plastic is cheap, so why shouldn’t more protection be? Comic books and magazines can come in all shapes and sizes anyway, so unlike a plastic case, you can provide protection for any sized book. Keeping your collectables in mint condition will greatly raise their value, which means they would one day make you a fortune, should you decide to sell them.
4. Memorabilia
You can seal other memorabilia in plastic to remember a good, fun time you had, including ticket stubs to movies, concerts, and sporting events. Maybe your favorite sports team won a championship, and you would like something to protect a newspaper headlining the occasion that you keep around. Plastic wrap can keep you precious memorabilia all in one place and safe from humidity.
