5 Things To Do with Rubber Bands

Do you have an ever-growing rubber band ball in your desk drawer? If you’re ready to dismantle your collection, here are some surprisingly practical uses for all those elastics.

From: Extraordinary Uses for Ordinary Things, Reader's Digest Canada

Did You Know?

The first rubber band was patented in 1845 by Stephen Perry, who owned a manufacturing company in London.

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