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You know those little aluminum mini-carabiners on some products? We have them on ChicoBags and our 20 oz. Enviro Products bottles. They're really handy, but they're not the toughest things in the world. They're aluminum, and are generally manufactured separately from the main product; an afterthought almost.

Well, Dan (our head programmer, who writes under the nom de plume of Radfarererrerrer) devised his own solution. He stopped by our locally owned hardware store, and bought a #3-size S-biner, and clipped that bad boy on there instead. It was brilliant! It's easier to use, way tougher, and less prone to malfunction.

Being particularly bright folks around here, a mere few months later, it dawned on us... HEY, we could offer these things to our customers! We figured you probably had a similar success rate with the stock mini-carabiners as we did, so there was an opportunity to help. As it turns out, they make some pretty big ones too, and now we can clip everything from our ChicoBags on belt-loops, to 40 oz. Klean Kanteens to our backpacks. They're one of those things that you start using and think "wow... why didn't I think of this sooner."

We eventually did think of it, though, and here we have them. Getting ChicoBags? The smallest size comes in 2-packs. Handy, no? In the picture, for comparison, you have the ChicoBag and Enviro Products stock mini-carabiners in the upper left. Then you have the ascending sizes of the #1, #2, #3, and #5 S-biners. You can find them all in the Awesome category (till our in-progress top-secret redesign is done, but shhhh).

• #1 S-biner 2 pack
• #2 S-biner
• #3 S-biner
• #4 S-biner