Mine were white, and came from Home Depot. My neighbor and I bought some at the same time. I had leftovers when we were putting this thing together, and they were the ones I used. She used hers right away on her chicken coop, and I am not kidding, three years later, and not one of them had broken. It's in sun most of the day too. The zip ties were to attach some shade cloth and a tarp.

Ya know, Mary, I think some of them are just better than others. I'm thinking back to a kit I bought for do-it-yourself, custom length zip ties, and those things have lasted forever! I used them to hold a big broken pot together and they held till the pot disintegrated. And that was several years sitting outdoors year round.

On the other hand, there's that container of pretty colored ones DH bought for me. I tried using them to hold a bit of steel panel to a post out front. Ha! Broke after about 6 months!

Kind of like those blue ones in one of the pictures? My great dollar store find! I slipped them on when DH wasn't looking, and he laughed his head off when they broke about 10 minutes later! Good thing he remembered where the stash of white ones were!

I agree with woofie. We have used zip ties for numerous things & mostly outdoors. Some were worthless & some held & held & held & seemed to never die. The problem is that they never really have a specific brand name on them so you can make sure that's the kind you get next time.