Originally Posted by babymog

Post a picture, many of us have jars of clips and fasteners around, if I (or someone else) recognizes them as something we have too many of, ...

Clips will really add up on these projects, I ran across a receipt recently from when I added the facelift panels to my car, over $200 in clips! Unfortunately, many of these older clips are nylon and become brittle over the years, can't re-use (as you found).