The Rubber Band And Newspaper: A Legendary Combo
For those of you with a print subscription, this Sunday, when you step outside to grab the paper at your front door, you’ll see it.
“It” of course is a rubber band.
Regardless if the news is stinky or the award winning, hard-core journalism kind; let’s face it, nothing in the world holds a newspaper together better. That’s why the newspaper industry uses massive quantities of them each year.
In an effort to keep them either rolled up or folded together for home delivery, you’ll see an interesting array of rubber bands on newspapers across the country.
While rubber band use is as unlimited as the imagination, newspapers have most likely generated the most use, if not, the greatest use, for them.
Even so, we’d like to know, how do you use your rubber bands? Share your comments on our blog.
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Photograph: Michelle Hitt
Comments
I have a special box 9"x13" just designated to recycle used rubber bands which I use for every mailing that I have to sort and take to the post office for my real estate business every time that I list or sell a house.
I recycle and reuse rubber bands to wrap around my wayward dying leaves of my iris and lilly plants so that they look organized as they take weeks to decompose and help prepare the flower bulbs with nourishment for the next spring's bountiful crop of flower blossoms.
Newspaper? Whats that?? I live in a rainy area and the papers are always delivered with a rubber band around the paper, and then a plastic bag around that. I think the rubber band on the newspaper is a tradition that will never go away. As long as there are papers, there will be a rubber band to bind it together.
Besides using them to tightly close bags of frozen vegetables, I've used rubber bands to rig up a water bottle holder for our pet rabbit after the flimsy wire holder that came with the water bottle didn't work.
I relieve tension by cutting rubber bands apart and then tie them together in different patterns to create personal works of art.
The best thing is that even though newspapers are being replaced by the internet, rubber bands can never be replaced. We can use them to rubber band together all the interesting articles we print off the internet. It will be a transformation of the use, but still similar to the original idea.
I use rubber bands as stress relievers by playing with them with my free hand at the computer.
I use rubber bands to organize my bills and tax receipts so doing my taxes in April is a breeze.
Rubber bands are useful for securing bouquets of fresh cut flowers and greens from the garden.
I use rubber bands to keep socks together so that they don't get separated in the drawer.
i can only do what they do best give them to others and let them find their own way to use them .help is just a rubber band away hay..
I remember delivering newspapers and don't have fond memories of that so on a personal level, I try to avoid the things as often as possible! However, at the warehouse that I work at does insist on using them for keeping labels together and printers attached to the material handling equipment, as well as paper hold downs on clip boards & ect....
Do you remember using rubber bands to hold areas of fabric close together and then dipping the cloth (usually a t-shirt or a long gauze skirt) into a container of colored water? It was called "tie-dying" and it's back in fashion! The fabric is then laid in the sun to dry. When the rubber bands are removed from the fabric, you have a pattern on the cloth that is symmetrical and sometimes random. It was very trendy in the 1970's to show up at a rock concert in the country in a tie-died t-shirt/skirt. Peace and love!
I use rubber bands as a grip for opening stubborn lids