Patent ID: 8038107

Claim:
A method of retaining a bag in an open configuration comprising the steps of: providing a yard waste bag having a bottom wall and a perimeter wall being attached to and extending upwardly from said bottom wall, said perimeter wall having an upper edge defining an opening into an interior of said yard waste bag; providing a frame, said frame including a perimeter wall having a top edge and a bottom edge, said perimeter wall having a rectangular configuration, a perimeter flange being attached to said top edge and extending inward of said frame; providing a plurality of legs, each of said legs having a top end and a bottom end, each of said legs being telescopic and having an adjustable height; providing a plurality of couplers, each of said legs being pivotally coupled to said frame by one of said couplers, each of said couplers comprising a pin removably extended into said perimeter wall and extended into one of said legs adjacent to an associated one of said top ends; providing a pair of stabilizers, each of said stabilizers being attached to and extending between a pair of legs adjacent to an associated one of said bottom ends so that two pairs of legs is defined each including one of said stabilizers; opening said yard waste bag; adjusting said legs to have a height at least equal to a height of said yard waste bag; and extending said legs into said yard waste bag and abutting said bottom ends against said bottom wall to retain said yard waste bag in an open configuration.