That headline is another viral “hidden secret” style claim—but in this case, there is a real (and much simpler) explanation.
🧷 What that small hole actually is for
On many safety pins, the tiny hole near the coiled spring is mainly for:
- Manufacturing and shaping
- It helps during production to hold or form the metal wire correctly.
- Occasional threading use (secondary function)
- Some people use it to guide thread while sewing or crafting, but this is not the primary purpose.
So the idea that it’s a “seamstress secret that saves time and thread” is mostly exaggeration.
🪡 What safety pins are actually designed for
A safety pin is engineered mainly for:
- securely holding fabric or materials together
- keeping the sharp point safely enclosed
- preventing accidental pokes
The small hole is not a special sewing feature—it’s more of a byproduct of how the pin is manufactured and shaped.
🧠 Why these posts go viral
They:
- take a normal design detail
- assign a hidden “expert secret” to it
- promise a surprising life hack
It feels satisfying, but most of the time the “secret function” is either minor or accidental.
✔️ Bottom line
The small hole on a safety pin is mostly a manufacturing/design feature, not a hidden productivity trick. Any sewing use of it is optional and not its intended purpose.
If you want, I can break down other “everyday object secrets” that are actually real vs the ones that are pure internet myths.
