I lose them entirely too often for that to be an affordable option for me 🤭 I get like 80 clothespins for $1. I’ve gone through like 5 packs of them in 15 years, give or take.
But maybe I’d hit a level of saturation eventually (I find random clothespins all the time now) and it would work out.
Probably not - I have a habit of MacGyvering stuff from whatever I find laying around… clothespins are stupid handy for that, and binder clips would be too… so I’d definitely repurpose them… :)
I love me some clothes pins. One of the inventions I’m most proud of is a recipe holder. I used some doublesided tape to place a pin opening side down on one of the cabinets near the cooking range. Now I can hang recipes at eye level, out of the way.
Clothes pins are the unsung heroes of diyers. Can they clamp small things? Yes! Can they hold things? Yes! Can they do much else? Depends what that means but those springs can be wicked handy.
Nobody admits to using them but they don’t still exist for no reason damnit.
And they are cheaper and better than the plastic alternatives. For what they are, you can’t improve them. They are perfect.
the creatine supplement powder i get has this wonderous resealable bag that uses something similar to velcro to stick together, like imagine velcro but it’s just a bunch of tiny rectangles on either side that friction fit together.
it seems effectively infinitely durable, has no moving parts, and because it can be made however wide you want you don’t have to worry about lining it up like the traditional press-lock bags, and it’s way more of a solid lock.
We had a bag of cat food for our diabetic cat that had the Ziploc feature, and it is far and away the best bag-closing design there is. We ended up just dumping future foods into that bag. Cat has since passed, bag remains, an homage to her legacy.
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