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But in any case I have now been collecting them for about 3 years and I use them for all sorts of things - to keep my ageing filofax together, to tie up freezer food bags and in the garden for various things.
The BBC did some research a while back on other uses for a Royal Mail rubber band. Here are some of the best ones I came across on other websites doing similar work:
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| Rubber band littering has definitely become a problem |
- Use them as cheap Kabbalah wrist bands. Madonna wears one and buying them from the Kabbalah Centre costs $26 for enough red string to make seven bands
- Consider them a collector's item. There was a fad among scooter-riding children in 2009 to collect the bands by putting them over the T-bar and dropping them down the central column. Encourage your child to collect the most
- Consider the bending down and the picking up of the bands as exercise. It shouldn't be too hard to keep up a regular rhythm as the red bands were chosen by the Royal Mail so they were easy to spot
- Make a red rubber band ball
- Gather them and sell them back to the Royal Mail
- Bicycle clips (yep I’ve done this one)
- Emergency belt loops
- Pencil-top erasers
- Waistband expanders
- Chopping board stabilisers
- Anti-slip devices for mixing spoons
- Anti-squeak devices for bed slats
- Saucepan handle covers
- Jar openers
- Cable ties
- An aide memoire
- Barter for stamps
- Cat toys
- Gardening string
- Handlebar fasteners
and here are some of the stupidest ideas I've found:
- Use them to mark Chinese new year. Red is considered lucky by many in China and is worn during festivities. It's a mere 314 days until the next festivities.
- Guitar strings (I don’t think this one actually works)
- Hair bands (if you’ve ever done it, you’ll know what a stupid idea this is)
- A teddy bungee jump (why?)
Do you use them for anything else? Let me know.
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| All the rage with the kids |
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