# Do you store rubber bands on doorknobs? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 27, 2013, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-store-rubber-bands-on-doorknobs/656820 "2013-04-27T03:51:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2013, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-store-rubber-bands-on-doorknobs/656820/21 "2013-04-27T20:47:42Z")
pre cat doorknob. with cat i toss them out, or tuck them into my bag for work. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2013, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-store-rubber-bands-on-doorknobs/656820/22 "2013-04-27T21:17:03Z")
Gah. I didn’t do it. I don’t think my parents did it. But I definitely remember seeing such a doorknob on a regular basis, at one time. This is annoying. I hope I remember soon. It’s under my scalp and it itches like bugses. ---
**Author:** ![AnaMen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dfb087/32.png) [@AnaMen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AnaMen)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2013, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-store-rubber-bands-on-doorknobs/656820/23 "2013-04-27T22:37:02Z")
As a child, I had a paper route and we had to purchase our own rubber bands. I had an old-folks home on my route, and somehow an elderly customer knew this. She would open the door to her apartment and beckon me inside, then shuffle over to her saved rubber band stash on the doorknob and pry the bundle loose with gnarled fingers. This touching gesture and the pleasure that lit her face as she handed them to me pierced my heart and brought me to tears every time. ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2013, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-store-rubber-bands-on-doorknobs/656820/24 "2013-04-27T22:50:54Z")
Never heard of storing them on the doorknobs. It seems like it would look untidy. We keep ours in the “junk drawer” of the hall cabinet. ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2013, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-store-rubber-bands-on-doorknobs/656820/25 "2013-04-28T00:08:03Z")
As a handyman I do a lot of rent-ready jobs (light repair, cleaning) and tend to find a lot of bands left on doors. I had never heard of it before that however. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Devil_s_Grandmother)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2013, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-store-rubber-bands-on-doorknobs/656820/26 "2013-04-29T19:13:05Z")
I would, but anything on door knobs annoys my husband, so I don’t. Rubber bands are now located in the silverware drawer which seems weird and wrong. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2013, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-store-rubber-bands-on-doorknobs/656820/27 "2013-04-29T19:22:15Z")
When I was a kid, one of my friends’ household did this. The problem was that they had built up a dense layer of a hundred or so rubber bands, and it became impossible to find one from the top layer – every time you tried to extract one, it was being held under one of the others. So I never saw the point. We’ve always kept rubber bands free in a drawer. If we’re being fastidious, in a drawer with compartments. Never have a problem pulling only one out. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-store-rubber-bands-on-doorknobs/656820.md?page=1)