A rubber band is a rubber band? Many tend to break while trying to secure them to whatever you need to hold together. These bands can be reused. I have used them to hold small items like business cards together and larger items like securing the lid to a mediumn size box. And they won't break when you twist them to secure a stack of postcards business cards etc in both horizontal and vertical direction.
The bag of rubber bands had a horrible smell and I had to throw them out. I would have returned them but we had bought them for use by my daughter at college and we were out of state with no Staples store. Would not recommend.
Ok so I bought these rubber bands because it was an assortment package and wanted to do a tie dye project with the kids. we tie dyed everything! great because different size bands leave different tie dye marks! rinse and use again and again! held up great with approx 50 people using 2 bags!