Appreciation post: the bread ties my dad saved in a coffee can

I was cleaning out my parents' garage in Boise last month and found a Folgers can packed with those little plastic bread ties, probably 200 of them, all sorted by color. My dad never bought a single cable strap in his life, he just twisted a bread tie around every cord in the house and it held for decades. I remember the back of the TV as a kid being this neat little braid of white and red ties, nothing fancy, just tidy. Now I have a drawer full of velcro rolls and zip ties, and somehow my desk still looks worse than his ever did. I kept the can and started using the ties on my shop bench chargers, and honestly they work fine. Did anybody else's folks hoard something weird like this for cable duty, or was it just a Boise thing?