Arguably one of the best things the Internet has spawned is the copious number of life hacks quick solutions to everyday problems using common products in new ways that float around in cyberspace.
Most bread clips are composed of plastic #6 polystyrene (PS), but KLR Systems also makes cardboard bread clips.
Mechanical bread clips A more complex bread clip design involves two articulated plastic parts mounted on a pivot with a spring between them to provide tension.
Whatever your dilemma, there's a hack for it. And with so many of us looking to find ways to reduce, reuse and recycle, these hacks repurpose old items and help keep them out of landfills.
Take the ordinary bread clip, for example: a small, inconsequential and often annoying polystyrene tab on loaves of bread. Any kid worth his salt knows they look pretty cool on bike spokes, but did you know there are dozens upon dozens of practical, grown-up uses for them, too?
For starters, the clips can help you determine the freshness of the bread you're buying. They're color-coded according to which day of the week the bread was baked on: blue for Monday, green for Tuesday, red for Thursday, white for Friday, and yellow for Saturday. (For some reason, the system doesn't include Wednesdays or Sundays, so buy the closest day's color for the freshest bread.)
Simple bread clips Most designs of bread clip consist of a single plastic part through which the neck of a plastic bag can be threaded, more uses for the almighty bread clip.
Clip matching socks together before washing or placing in drawers.
At the same time a hurried population of consumers wanted a fast and easy way to open and effectively seal food bags.
Plastic Clip That clip is big business.
As the use of polyethylene bags to package fruit and other foods rapidly increased, Paxton realized that he'd invented a cheap, reusable solution to sealing open-ended bags.
He rummaged through his wallet and found an expired credit card and hand-carved his first bag clip with a small pen knife.
Bread clip A white bread clip is a device used to hold plastic bags closed, such as the ones in which sliced bread is commonly packaged.
When a fruit packer, Pacific Fruit, wanted to replace rubber bands with a better bag closure for its new plastic bags, Paxton remembered his bag of peanuts.
Because these bread clamps, or bread tabs, are cheap, ubiquitous, and come in a variety of shapes and colors, some people collect them.
