Sure, we use them to close up chip bags, hold together loose packs of cards and bind cables, but you'd be surprised at the many off-brand ways uses for the household staple known as rubber bands.

lacka band or gumband, all we can say is blessed be the rubber band. We have Stephen Perry to thank for the ubiquitous rubber latex loops – in 1845, Perry patented the use of India rubber for ...

Now, let me explain how you can build resilience over time. Take a rubber band, for instance. Have you noticed, when you stretch it gently, how it just springs back into its original shape?