Our assessment
For a very simple product the sample is close to unanimous: these clips hold a twisted bag closed, keep bread fresh and beat twist ties on both speed and tidiness. The two open questions are the narrow opening, which several buyers find awkward and one defends as normal, and durability, where the wider rating data reports clips breaking over time even though nobody in these thirteen comments reports a break.
Buy nowEvidence note: we sampled 13 customer comments for this exact product on October 9, 2026. We do not reproduce them here. This sample is not representative of every buyer; the site score instead uses the marketplace-wide average and rating count.
In brief
This is an eight-pack of Mr. Pen squeeze-and-lock bag clips, 2.4 inches across and sold in mixed colours for closing bread, buns and other food bags. They replace the twist ties that come with a loaf: you twist the bag, squeeze the clip and slide it on. The marketplace average is 4.6 out of 5 across roughly 5,700 ratings, with 79 percent at five stars, 12 percent at four, and a one-star tail of about 2 percent, one of the thinnest here.
Thirteen comments were captured for this review. For a product this simple that is enough to see the pattern clearly.
What the sample agrees on
The clip works, and the sample is close to unanimous about why. Buyers describe it as faster and tidier than a twist tie, holding a twisted bag closed so the bread stays fresh, and several mention how much they prefer it to the wire closures that come with a loaf. The squeeze action is described as easy on the hands, the plastic as feeling sturdy, and the colours as a small but real plus.
The wider rating data agrees: sealing, convenience and value are among the most-mentioned themes, and durability is discussed more than you might expect for a clip.
The trade-off: the opening, and whether they last
The opening is the recurring complaint. Several buyers say you have to twist the bag tightly to seat it, and that the clip is too small for a large crisp or chip bag even though it is fine on bread and rolls. One buyer pushes back on that directly, saying the opening is no narrower than other brands they have owned and that the trick is simply to twist the bag first. That is a disagreement about technique as much as about the product, and with a sample this size the honest reading is that the clip suits bread and smaller bags and is not built for the biggest packets.
Durability is the other open question, and here the sample and the rating data pull apart. The marketplace summary notes that some buyers report the clips falling apart over time. In these thirteen comments nobody reports a break; the one long-term reviewer says the clips are still holding up after months of daily use and chose them over a similar brand. So the durability worry is real in the wider data but does not appear in this sample, which is a case for treating it as a possibility rather than an expectation.
We have not tested this bread bag clip.
Bottom line
Worth considering if you want a cheap, quick way to close bread and small food bags and you are tired of twist ties. The reservations are modest: expect to twist the bag tightly, and do not count on them for large crisp packets. The score shown for this product comes from the marketplace-wide rating and its rating count, not from these 13 comments. No individual customer review is reproduced here.