If you used zip ties and don’t know what to do with them, don’t cut them and throw them away. You can reuse them:

Plastic ties , also known as cable ties , are useful for many tasks around the home, from making phone holders to cleaning debris from sinks. These little attachments work by inserting the narrow end, or tail, through the head to form a ratchet that holds them together. Usually, we tend to break them to untie them, although it is actually possible to open them with a little trick:

How to open plastic ties without breaking them to be able to reuse them – video tutorial

On the web, some videos – which have gone viral – have revealed the simple yet effective technique that explains how to open these zip ties without breaking them . In the video, the user presses a small tab inside the flange head with a nail or flathead screwdriver , loosening the ratchet and allowing the tail to be pulled out of the head. The links to the videos:

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