What’s the Hole in a Safety Pin For?

point that it’s easy to not realize how much thought went into it.

Plus, it’s not as if the packaging has a tag saying, “Hey! This is for tension control!” The way most of us do is rip open a pack of safety pins and go to pinning.

Can You Use the Hole for Something Else?

Actually, yes. Though it was not intended for this purpose, some enterprising people use the hole to attach safety pins to other objects — by putting a ribbon through it or weaving a thin piece of wire around it and tacking the pin into something