One simple way is to use a GFCI at each 120 volt receptacle location. Do not feed other receptacles from any GFCI for this situation.

Thank you bus_driver.
As I think I am starting to understand,

I would like the CGFI to protect not only the outlets but the wiring too for the following reasons:

the MWBC wire goes through some exposed metal conduit and metal boxes in the garage (some of the wire is in the wall but some is exposed conduit that I can tell). I do not know how well my house is grounded, which is one of the reasons I wanted the CGFI in the first place. So if I just install a number of CGFIs (I would need 6) the conduit and other metal work would not be CGFI protected.

I also just found out that this MWBC wire feeds the two outside outlets in my back yard (seems like there was an old Jacuzzi area there which previous owners took with them). Apparently the MWBC travels to the outdoor outlets through PVC conduit. I do not really need those outdoor outlets so I could disconnect them really but if there is a way to preserve them I would rather keep them.

What do you think you are protecting? The GFCI is for protection of life. It opens when more than a few milliamps doesn't return through the GFCI. A ground fault through the wiring would most likely trip the overcurrent device itself. Other faults are going to take something along the lines of an AFCI. Properly installed wiring isn't likely to suffer any ground faults.

As pointed out, you can't use 110V GFCI devices to protect MWBC. You'll need a 220 (with a load neutral) breaker to protect the whole circuit if you want to do that. Otherwise, as previously suggested, use individual 120 devices. You can not share the neutral on the load side of a GFCI with a different (including the other half of a MWBC) circuit.

Well, perhaps I am wrong, but, in my admittedly inexperienced thinking I thought â¦

If the GFCI can protect against an improperly grounded exposed metal conduit, or metal box, or the outdoor cable coming in contact with moisture in wet weather, why not have the GFCI not only protect but also act as an early warning that something is leaking somewhere down the line (bugs making nests in the outdoor outlets and conducting in wet weather, mice having chewed on the underground cable etc.)?

A GFCI cannot "protect against an improperly grounded exposed metal conduit, or metal box". All that a GFCI does is detect a difference in the amount of current flowing in the hot and neutral wires of the circuit. Yes, sometimes GFCIs are installed where no ground is present to provide a margin of safety against a shock hazard, but it is not a substitute for proper grounding.

While a GFCI might help you detect mice chewing on wires, more importantly it might save someone from being badly injured or killed from an electrical shock (say when they cut through their extension cord with the hedge clippers).

Of course a GFCI won't protect a mouse (or a human) who bridges the hot and neutral with his body either.