Useful little items. They come stretched tightly around my newspaper so that the Walgreen ads and the sports sections don't end up flying around in my driveway. Since they seem so useful and I might need them sometime, I drop them in the drawer with the pencils, pens, paperclips, post-it pads and other miscellaneous items.
My husband finally got tired of them getting jumbled up with the other non-essentials. He meticulously wrapped each rubber band around a piece of cardboard. So now we have an oblong object made of rubber bands. It is useful in that when I really do need one, I simply find the "group" and peel off one. That happens about once a month. Do I really need 50 rubber bands wrapped together? But, it seems hard to throw out something that could be useful.
I don't think of myself as a pack rat. However, when it comes to something like rubber bands, I save them. I justify it by thinking that I'm recycling them, making them useful a second time. And, I do re-use them. But, again, how many do I need to keep on hand?
But, I would hate to run out of rubber bands!
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