pre cat doorknob. with cat i toss them out, or tuck them into my bag for work.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.