Okay so I only have a few ideas but thought you might be able to come up with a few yourself.
Traditionally I have seen them used mainly for garbage bags but I keep them around for a lot of things like:
·Putting the computer cords and other cords in a nice s shape and out of the way.
·Ah, the freezer, when you have food that you need to put in there and don’t have a rubber band, they close, but not seal, the bag.
·Occasionally I have used them for my hair. Honestly. my hair is somewhat long and when working on a computer (many twisties available) I can’t stand that my hair falls in my face or in the computer so I have used them to pull my hair back.
·Kept keys in a tidy way in the junk drawer. Okay so it defeats the purpose of the junk drawer but at least the keys are put in one place and you don’t have to search for them.
Any other useful ways to incorporate them into your lives?
I almost never use them to tie up the trash bag, or for whatever purpose was originally intended.
Their main function in my house is to get wedged between the silverware tray (that plastic thing the holds your spoons & forks, etc.) and the inside of the drawer. This prevents the silverware tray from sliding around when the drawer is opened, because no silverware tray I have ever owned is the correct size for the drawer it is meant to live in.
Seriously. I spent hours last night assembling a big pewter dragon with epoxy. Those twisties held all the components in place nicely while the glue dried.
For those of you who play D&D… my players are sooooo screwed…
I take about 10 loose twist-ties, then clump them together and toss it on the floor. The dopey cat bats that thing around and stays amused for hours on end.
A few days later, I’ll find (in the oddest places) the Twistie Toy’s withered body. All the paper has been stripped/chewed/batted off, and it’s gnarled bare metal carcass looks like a little train wreck.
Hey, don’t look at me. That stupid cat loves chewing on metal. Twisty Toys are way cheaper than some catnip filled mouse for 3 bucks, which he just ignores anyway.
We used them in the Army, sometimes, to hold pieces of our jeeps on. Ah, the jeep…the only vehicle I ever knew that you could fix with nothing but 2 screwdrivers, a hammer and a basic set of wrenches…
Stripped the paper off and threaded one thru the hole left by my sunglasses’ screw falling out until I could get another teeny screw.
Used them to hang the last few Xmas ornaments when I was out of the little wire ornament hangers
Fastened my daughter’s overalls when she lost the clasp on one side so she could wear her favorite outfit to school.
The uses of twist ties are limited only by one’s imagination and the laws of safety and common sense.
When my hubby and I were dating and talking about marriage, he put a twistie around my ring finger and told me that it would have to do until he got me a proper ring. We are going to celebrate our 4th wedding anniversary in June, and I still have the twistie in my jewelry box. I know this is a hokey story, but it’s true!
Twisties work great inside the arms and legs of little people or amimals made out of felt or other light-weight material. This is the only way I know to get bendable limbs for my little hand-made people.
I can suggest one thing to not use them for. Instead of skewers or string when arranging the drumsticks and wingtips of a chicken to be roasted.
I’m not sure how long it took my neighbour to get the smell out of her house, 'though the chicken did look kind of sweet with those little green stripes of melted plastic over it.
Here’s a hijack, but you’ll like this, Techy… my oldest brother (the computer genius of the family) braids all the wires in his computer together to help keep 'em organized. He even uses an exactoknife to cut the individual wires in the ribbons (connecting the HDD and CD-ROM drives, etc. to the motherboard) apart and braids those together, too. He claims to have made the connections 4 or 5% more efficient this way.
