#bread tabs

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Updated and re-organized occlupanid binder

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Some interesting occlupanids I was gifted today. Found in Idaho

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My headphones broke recently; a load-bearing plastic piece snapped off, leaving a dangly wire and a hinge trying to dig into my scalp when i put them on. But I was able to repair them with a different plastic piece:

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Do you enjoy bread? Or just the tab? I like both. 🍞 bread.

bread is good. bread without tab is acceptable, sometimes necessary. tab without bread is delightful, unexpected, sometimes a side effect of bulk vegetable

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occlupanid update:

we're gonna need a bigger jar

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State of the bread tab collection as of May 11th, 2020:

The jar is full. I don’t know how many of them there are, but it’s a few hundred.

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Hello there, is it possible to sell bread clips/tabs? if so who do I sell it to?

Unfortunately, bread tabs aren’t worth much monetarily. (I think the corporation that makes them probably makes more money by selling the machines that put the tabs on plastic bags than it does by selling the tabs themselves.) There are billions of bread tabs out there, and they’re not useful for much besides their original purpose.

Your best bet is may be recycling. Oftentimes bread tabs are too small to be processed easily by recycling centers, so they can’t take them from curbside recycling bins. You can call your local recycling center and see if they’ll pay you for dropping off bread tabs (and possibly other plastics of the same type, which I *think* is #6 polystyrene). With the disclaimer that I haven’t tried this myself--I keep my bread tabs--they may accept them, but you’re probably going to have to send them in by the pound to make any money that way.

Ebay is another option. People seem to be selling them in lots of 75-500, for a going rate of about $5 or $7 per 100. You can find these listings in the craft supply section. If you decide to go this route, again, it’ll take a lot of bread tabs to make any money, and you have to factor in the costs of seller’s fees, packaging and possibly shipping. This is potentially more profitable per bread tab, but a lot more work.

The only other way I can see is if you can find an artist/crafter who is upcycling them and would be willing to buy them off you directly. That could take a lot of legwork.