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This one is way below $100, but about ten years ago I bought a roll of twist tie wire at a dollar store. It's fifty or a hundred feet, with a little guillotine cutter. It's still just a bunch of twist tie, but it punches WAY above its weight with quality of life improvement. No more hunting for the one you dropped, or wondering how you'll close up a veggie bag. Also good for (fairly light) pictures that use wire instead of sawtooth hardware, and I've used it in a pinch when I didn't have cable ties. I dunno. It's just an oddly useful substance to have lying in your junk drawer.
If you double it up and twist it together, it's way stronger.
I've used it forever for the garden.
Another one in the theme: Fishing line or nylon string. A transparent fishing line can hang pretty much everything and supports 10kg or more.
Need to cut a cake into top and bottom halves? Fishing line can do that too. Do a hitman choke thingy around the cake.
Keychain? Can be done, why not.
Nail is too far to hang stuff? Just tie a fishing line between the things
Cracked plastic needs extra support? Fishing line.
Out of zip ties? Fishing line.
I had that same revelation decades ago, and always keep a roll in the junk drawer.
One day, I was out with my father-in-law, and I saw a twist-tie roll for sale and bought it for him. It was only a couple of bucks, but he received that gift like it was a bag of gold. He immediately thought of how handy it would be.
Funny how simple things like that can excite us when we get older.
Get yourself some of these for all of your bag-closing needs: https://www.ikea.com/se/en/p/bevara-sealing-clip-anthracite-dark-yellow-90524179/
Costs just above 1 EUR for a set of 6, so you can probably even afford to get 2 or 3
I've just been hoarding all the twist ties that come with other purchases. Only costs me a little bit of sanity every time I look in that drawer.
In this theme, you can get so many rubber bands for cheap.
Just be careful of the material you get. There are some that degrade over time. That said, I loved playing with bags of rubber bands when I was a kid. I'd stick my hands all the way in the bag and just squish them around. It feels great!