Lanyards are perfectly convenient for keeping track of high use critical items like keys and id badges, until you stop wearing them. Then they're instead a tangled mess of wide slippery material which spills out of any bag you might try to contain it in.
Slippery and difficult to contain is not a good attribute for critical items.
If you need to put a lanyard away and don't have a non-neck place to hang it, pass the loop through itself around something else stable like a bag strap, then pull tight.
With something wide (badges) or heavy (keys) on the other end, it'll be impossible for it to pass back through itself, so there's no risk of it coming undone. You can now let it hang or stuff it into a bag, knowing it won't get too tangled and you can't risk dropping it when you go to rummage for something else.
Technically this works for anything on a long loop that you don't want to stuff into a bag, although in practice I've never seen another use case.
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Nightly Notes
There's some formal knot theory name for this I'm sure, but in my head it's always been and always will be "the loopy".
If it works it works.
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