IKEA Is Selling the Cheeriest 2-in-1 Shopping Find for $4

It’s not even Halloween yet, but the holiday shopping season is already very much here. While you’re making lists and hunting for deals, it’s important to remember that gift shopping includes much more than planning. Unless you’re buying everything online, you have to go to stores, pick out items, bring them home, wrap them, and then finally give them out when the time is right. 

This can be an overwhelming process, but it becomes more fun if you treat yourself in the process. Even something as small as the reusable shopping bag you use to bring your gifts home can turn a hectic experience into a Hallmark-esque day. IKEA is well-known for its affordable reusable shopping bags — you’ve almost definitely seen that big blue one. Just in time for the holiday season, there’s a new bag in town at IKEA, and it might be the perfect way to motivate yourself to get started on all that holiday shopping.

The VINTERFINT shopping bag is a new, seasonal offering. It’s a colorful 19-gallon bag that folds up small and flat for just $3.99, so expect demand to be on the higher end. Yep, that means if you want it then you should go soon in case it sells out.

The bag’s geometric blue, white, and red pattern looks a lot like wrapping paper, and if you think about it, the blue handle is sort of like the bag version of the bow on top of a wrapped gift. To take this metaphor a step further, if you’re trying to cut down on paper waste this season, you could even give your loved ones their gifts in this IKEA bag. (And yes, the bag counts as a gift too.)

As exciting as the holiday season is, when it’s over you often have to spend time putting decorations, themed sweaters, and other accessories away until next year. And although this IKEA shopping bag’s design may remind you of wrapping paper, there’s nothing overtly holiday about it, which means you can use it year-round — and that may be the best gift of all. Plus, unlike some of IKEA’s offerings, you can buy this bag online, which means you don’t even have to trek to your IKEA to get ahold of it. Think fast!