Conformable bag holder with flat frame storage

A method of bagging lawn clippings, leaves and other debris, comprising the steps of:

• storing a rectangular-shaped four sided bag-holding frame having an essentially open rectangular shape in a flat condition;
• providing across the top and bottom of said frame a pair of upper and lower resilient, conformable cross pieces;
• fastening a pair of rigid side members of equal length as the frame sides to said pair of upper and lower cross pieces,
• joining said fastened top and bottom cross pieces to said side pieces at the corners of said frame such that said frame stores flat but is conformable into a hollow semi-cylindrical bag holding shape when ready for use;
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• bending said conformable cross-pieces back upon themselves such that said rectangular frame is bowed into an essentially hollow semi-cylindrical shape for holding an open bag on the conformable frame.

A plastic bag holding apparatus for flat compact storage and a bowed shape for holding standard sized garbage, leaf and/or lawn bags, such apparatus comprising:

• a four-cornered, bag-holding frame in an essentially flat open shape, with said frame having resilient, conformable upper and lower cross pieces at the top and bottom of the frame and essentially rigid members at the sides of the frame,
• a tensioning member running from one lower corner to an opposite lower corner of said frame, with said tensioning member selected with a length suitable for holding said flat frame in a bowed shape that is adapted to receive and hold plastic bags in an open condition;
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• a bowed open end in the conformable upper cross piece of said bowed frame for receiving the open end of a plastic bag, which bag is held in place by a tendency of said bowed cross piece to spring outwardly.