The large rubber bands are great in that they do not may file folders bend - which with tax clients is a good thing. We use staight cut legal file folders and the large rubber bands work great.
They're colorful flexible and strong - they're big rubber bands! 20 some years ago I can remember my then boss saying we would be paperless by 2010. Oh well I'm still submitting 4 copies (quadruplicates) of engineered plans on paper to the state. The classic "big rubber band" gets the job done to keep them together. If I could just figure out what happens to the rubber bands when the copies are distributed.
They are pretty nice but I would have been happy with a simpler cheaper not colored model. Having said that I was glad to find them at all--my previous stock had come from a project and the last one was broken--as I find them very handy to close large bags like 2-lb coffee bags snugly.
This is a perfect old school organizational product which I thankfully found in our local Staples. The multicolor bands also help with stacking projects. Thank you to Staples decision makers for making old-fashioned function an important inventory feature.