Comments on: How can I reuse or recycle … plastic tie things?

By: Living Provident

Living Provident — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 07:39:53 +0000

I use them to hold all of the electronics cords nicely and from not getting all tangled.

By: Ruti

Ruti — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:33:16 +0000

We had a sculpture competition with them, as an icebreaker activity.

By: Pat

Pat — Wed, 07 May 2008 19:43:44 +0000

I fasten treats to my parakeets cages. And i use them to tie things together, if they are too short i just twist several together. You can stake a flowering vine to a net or fence with them.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 05:04:46 +0000

When i was younger,i used to make rings out of them to play. Just roll them around the kid’s finger, twist it and make a lil ball with the left over, then cover the ball with aluminum paper to make the stone.

By: Wen Rou

Wen Rou — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 13:27:25 +0000

They can be used to attach balloons for decoration in a party instead of using string.

By: Kate TW

Kate TW — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 05:20:22 +0000

If you are a pack rat, and simply have accumulated a lot of them over a long period without using them for anything practical, you could make a very very long twist tie to use as the base for a festive holiday garland. If you used all recycled materials to attach to the garland, it could turn into a very inspired work of art.

By: Butterscotch

Butterscotch — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 03:40:03 +0000

use them to replace the spirol wire in a spirol notepad.

By: Solomon Broad

Solomon Broad — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 19:51:14 +0000

Try using them with flower arrangements – perfect for flowers with weak stems.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 02:15:20 +0000

I sometimes strip them of the paper/plastic coating and use them in craft projects. I often double them up, twist them tight and then snip off the ends leaving enough to bend down so as to not get poked.

By: Keith R

Keith R — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 15:43:45 +0000

I always save those things whenever we get a new gizmo or gadget packed with them, because you never know when they come in handy around the house. I primarily use them to tie up vines, tie my rose bush to the fan trellis, and guide creepers in the garden, or as ties for garbage bags, but have also been known to use them to (1) replace the lost ties (one always seems to disappear each year) for the Christmas lighted wire sculptures (you know, like the reindeer sculpture on the front lawn that, once all the ties are removed, collapses into compact, boxable shape); (2) twin together wiring running together along walls, floors or ceilings(speaker wire with phone wire or other cords) to keep them manageable and in check; (3) tie up the slack of the various wires belonging to my desktop computer and its peripherals, so that I don’t have a messy nest of wires underneath my desk and potentially catching my feet;(4) string together some of my lighter tools used for related purposes — such as the paint scrapers and/or brushes of various sizes, which always have a hole in the handle — so that they can be hung together on my wall pegboard and thus are found together when it comes time to do a job (rather than waste time hunting down that last one hiding at the bottom of my tool collections).

I also always keep a couple of them in the side pocket of my travel bag. You never know when or how they might come in handy.

Regards,
Keith