Metal "office" binder clips. - Replace twist ties in the kitchen. They hold more tightly and last indefinitely. - Pinch and detach a metal handle to make a

Metal "office" binder clips. - Replace twist ties in the kitchen. They hold more tightly and last indefinitely. - Pinch and detach a metal handle to make a gripping keyring or similar, looping the handle through the key's or other object's hole and then reattaching to the binder clip. - Pinch a length of speaker wire to a boom box aerial to get extended, adjustable radio reception for the boom box when painting outside. - All the usual and unusual office applications. - Hold folded tubes of stuff -- toothpaste, caulk, etc. -- folded. Increasingly useful these days as most tubes are now plastic and so don't stay crimped on their own. - All sorts of small scale mechanical repairs where I need to hold a couple of items together. You can wrap some tape around the edges to increase grip or provide a bit of protection against marring the gripped surface. - Clamp items being glued or whatnot. - Several applications I'm not thinking of, now. I notice some variation in gripping strength between binder clips fresh out of the box, so I try a few until I find the optimal strength for the application at hand. Also, opening one very wide tends to exceed its limit for full recovery; it will not close as tightly in the future.