What to do with bread bag clips?
Most but not all of this is condensed from How can I Recycle This which is a favorite site for inspirations.
- If you discard them, be sure to break them so they dont get caught on birds feet.
- Use them as stitch counters when knitting or crocheting.
- Use them to wind up tails or smal bits of thread when doing needle crafts
- Reuse them for their purpose for leftovers. Use a different color for each day of the week to remind yourself how long things have been in the fridge.
Reinforce the torn out edge of a hanging calendar or use them to reinforce the hole of things in a three ring binder- Keep a few by the sink to scrape off food from pans & pots. We have used this trick and it works wonders!
- They are said to be safe for scraping food of the enamel on appliances
- Add a bit of cardboard behind them and use them as a hanger for a light weight picture frame.
- Use to secure tomatoes and vines to frames
- Use them to mark power cords so you know which one goes to which device.
- Decorate and use a wine glass charms
- Apparently they make acceptable guitar pics
- Use them to hold socks together in the wash or to pin socks together over a hanger to dry.
- Use as a scraper to remove paint from a window
- Use as counter for a game
- Seal them in a cardboard tube to create a noise maker
- Keep one on the end of the packing tape so you can find the end next time you need it.
- Use as a shim behind a hinge.
- In South Africa there is an organization that collects bread bag tags to recycle and the proceeds are used to buy wheelchairs. It takes 1 million tags to buy one wheelchair!