sf wrote:
>
> I only see twist ties on dollar store
> items these days. I don't know what they use now is called, but think
> of those plastic "hand cuffs" you see the police cuff detainees with
> on TV and it's a smaller version of that. I have to use kitchen
> scissors to remove them. It takes both hands to close the scissors
> and it's hard to cut anyway. I always worry that I'm creating a dull
> spot on them when I do it.

Cable ties. They come out of the electronics industry where they were
invented to hold cable bundles together.