Correct. Actually, I don’t do the spin & tuck until the loaf is less than half empty. Should the clip thingie break or get lost, I always have an ample supply ot twist-ties to substitute.
For general-purpose closure such as bags of potato chips, the ideal tool is alligator-style paper clips. Also works great on bags of frozen french fries.
I understand the mentality of people who collect these things. I used to collect tabs from cans and bottlecaps from bottles when I was younger. Who knows, after a nuclear war devastates the world, they might become the dominant currency.
My brother says they make sorta okay guitar picks.
I posted this same sentence before.
Hmmm 
I don’t collect them, but there are several in the junk drawer in the kitchen to replace the twist ties on new bags.
I hate those things, and routinely throw them out and twist ties instead (as well as clothespins for chip bags).
100%. Spin & tuck!
Having several siblings, the “things” was each other. Every bread clip was broken and then flicked. I bet my mom is still finding them in the house.
I can’t remember the last time I saw one of those things in a store. They would seem to be an invitation to food tampering. Tape that can’t be removed without scissors or tearing the bag seems to be the standard now.
Well, I would point out there are thousands of items in a grocery store that aren’t packaged at all, and we seem to manage.
It’s actuaIIy clever invention.
I do not hate them. I kinda love them.
I don’t really find them useful after the first removal from the bag.
Funny thing, I bought a cheap bag of trash bags. The outer bag had a bread clip, the bags inside had twistie ties.
They’re not just used on food products.
True. Much of the store-baked bread is in open-ended bags. But the store has full custody of the product from preparation to sale. They might treat food delivered from outside that chain differently.
They’ve branched out over here. They can now be found (with a label glued
to them) clipped to bunches of spring onions
Interesting point. The bread we typically buy is wrapped in a single plastic bag with a plastic clip, and is baked in the store. I believe the other breads from big bakeries are double-wrapped - the bread itself is shrink-wrapped and then wrapped again with a plastic bag, then either twist-tied or clipped. I will have to pay attention next time at the store.
My bread is not double wrapped. Natures Own.
Single bag with the clip.
Ok this is awesome. I used the last of a loaf just right now and decided to take my own advice and keep the clip. When I took it off…..it broke!
Planned obsolescence at it’s best!
I have a small jar full. I noticed some users had switched to cardboard. I found them to be sub par. Broke easily and did not work nearly as well.
Fearing this was the future and the plastic ones were about to disappear, I began to put aside plastic ones.
That never happened, and I’ve stopped collecting them. But still have the small bottle full. Y’know, just in case!
What the hell do you do to those things in normal use? I don’t think I’ve ever broken one except by deliberately folding it in half & back in half the opposite way until it snapped after 3 or 5 cycles.
You’re cursed now dude. That’s exactly what I said last week. It just snapped in half. I have no idea.
The Reddit collector linked to earlier had over a thousand variants. Some have to be worse than others and some way worse.
I hope they have them insured and has written them into his will so they are properly cared for after their death.