Customer Reviews for Staples - Medium Binder Clips, 0.63" Capacity, 144 Clips/Pack - Black
Customer Rating
5
LOVE THESE!!!
on September 19, 2010
Posted by: Paula K.
These are a teacher's best friend!! They help keep students' papers organized and they hold the papers tightly enough to not lose any papers! I have a huge amount of these in my classroom and I will always use them!
Who isn't value oriented in this economy?! BUT it's not a good value if it isn't also a quality product--and why pay designer prices for something that is no better in function and doesn't bring a smile to my face? I organize by color so I had to consider how to make these all black clips work for me. Solution? color coding materials on-hand: file folder labels and dots post-it note or flag (sticky part) white paper and a marker. These can be placed on the clip's: "spine" (if stored a filing cabinet) "sides" (if you "flat-file" AKA piling) both - use a larger piece of color-coding material and wrap it from the front-side across the spine to the back-side. This works well for projects-in-progress that will go to longer-term storage in a file cabinet. Any of these color coding materials can be secured to the clip w/ packaging tape (trimmed to size after applying to the clip). The container that the clips come in stores well and is the right size to be put into regular service; as opposed to some that once they are in use or un-packed it is either a mystery to be solved or some kind of IQ test to be able to return the contents to its packaging for future use.
Paper clips are ideal and used by many many people for various of reasons. However having these "Metal Binder Clips" allows me to organize papers in a larger stack. I have a lot of loose papers/printouts and having a larger clip than just an ordinary paper clip I can bunch more papers together; thus I have less clips to use. It's great. I've used these type of clips for years. And when the clips went on sale for $1 I did not hesitate to buy a container of them.