Bread Bag Clips

[Daddy-A]

For clarity, by bread bag clips, I mean these [CLICK].

As a child I remember a drawer in my grandmother's kitchen full of them ... all sorts of colours & sizes. She never really re-used them, thus the fullness of the drawer. She had to be collecting them.

Today, I have a smaller collection (in a smaller box in the tin foil/plastic wrap drawer) that I periodically clear out. Sometimes I'll even revert to my childhood, breaking them in half, "clipping" one half to the tip of my index finger, and flinging it across the room at our dogs, or my wife if I'm feeling brave.

Anyone else?

A.

[rooftop1000]

I have started saving twist ties to close up frozen food bags....I keep them twisted to a drawer handle.

tracey

[Anna N]

I save some of the larger clips because they make great scrapers if things get stuck on the counter or in a pan or so and the plastic seems less destructive than other things.

[Toliver]

My mom always saved them, too. She used them on her supply of re-used supermarket produce bags.

[DerekW]

Those things are evil! I've never been convinced of their sealing efficacy, and now I learn that not only are people like Daddy-A using them as skirmish weapons, but an article in the Canadian Medical Association Journal indicts them in cases of bowel perforation, with the authors suggesting that "To prevent further morbidity and mortality, we recommend elimination or redesign of these clips."

Seriously, people eat these?

[srhcb]

Those things are evil! I've never been convinced of their sealing efficacy ....

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Likewise.

I remove them, toss them, and replace them with twist ties.

SB

[Dana]

I use a wooden clothespin for most anything that needs to be closed up tight.

That, along with how to cut up a whole chicken, are the most valuable kitchen tips my mom taught me.

[baroness]

I save some of the larger clips because they make great scrapers if things get stuck on the counter or in a pan or so and the plastic seems less destructive than other things.

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I use a wooden clothespin for most anything that needs to be closed up tight.

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Anna is correct; they do make good scrapers!

I use closepins (including those 'cute' European wire ones) and office binder clips to secure bags; the latter are particularly good for snack food or other foil bags.

[lcdm]

My daughters teacher collects them. She has them in a few big jars she wants to get to a million (so kind of 3rd grade math project).

I also use clothespin's, a trick my grandmother taught me.

[BrooksNYC]

I'm a Twixits man. The smaller size are good for bread bags. The big guys are big enough to seal bags of cereal, coffee, or chips.

Love 'em.........and they last forever!

Edited June 3, 2007 by BrooksNYC (log)

[foodie52]

That's part of the problem : they DO last forever.

[BrooksNYC]

A problem? Surely that's a plus in this disposable age!

Think of them as a precious heirloom to be handed down to your children....and their children....and their children after that. Centuries from now, your descendants will think of you every time they seal a half-eaten bag of BBQ potato chips with one of your Twixits.