Rubber bands are really usable. I use them to keep boxes shut - so they don't spill. I give a bag to the mail person so she can bundle our mail. This helps you to get your mail quickly and the wind doesn't blow it away. I also use rubber bands for my hair around tickets and to shoot them across the room as a game.
Excellent stretchability and pull. Best use is plinking flies at 5-10 feet as those useless germ-laden multi-optical scourges on our lives attempt to ruin patio dining. #64 Staples Rubber Bands offer the best value and highest quality product for a quiet afternoon of fly hunting. BTW... the #64 also makes short order of spiders wasps and yellow-jackets too. But if you miss the wasps and yellow-jackets you better be prepared to run. They tend to be allergic to rubber products.
I use the rubber bands to bind together our church's weekly bulletins. They work well and last awhile. They can be stretched out to fit any document card that is no larger than a sheet of paper that is 8/10 folded in half.
I find this size to be very handy. But I have them in three different locations and happened to get a bad bag that was mixed in along with other ones that were good. They broke almost on contact and some of them deteriorated over a short amount of time. Couldn't get any satisfaction from the employee because I didn t have the bag in question. The bad ones by this time were all mixed up with the good ones.