Dear Internet,
Are your kids / nieces / nephews / godchildren / siblings CUCKOO SLAP-DAB CRAZY over these little dealios?
Because in our house? And at our school? And in our town?
The kids – boys and girls alike – are CUCKOO SLAP-DAB CRAZY over the animal bracelets.
Beats anything I’ve ever seen, this fascination with GLORIFIED RUBBER BANDS.
That is all.
Love,
Me
p.s. CUCKOO.
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Never seen them before but yes I would totally love them. To darn cute.
I am a 2nd grade teacher and the bracelets are EVERYWHERE! I have taken so many of them up from children who are playing with them that I now have my own collection- the flamingo, pig, rhino, and giraffe. Who needs to buy them? You can just be a teacher :)
Oh, that takes me back…back to the days when everybody was obsessed with slap bracelets…you know, the ones that were straight until you smacked them on your wrist and then they curled around…magic! They were so popular that they were banned at my elementary school.
I also remember a trend of bracelets made out of what looked like telephone cord…
Never heard of them. Where would I get such a beast? My Youngest would LOVEY those!
I’m embarrased to tell you how many hours I’ve driven all over this city looking for them. It’s way too many for a grown woman to admit to.
I’ve never seen those before!
Never seen them, but I can see Chickie being in love.
BTW, our church handed out slap bracelets in the All Hallow’s Eve bags o’ goodies and my kids are IN LOVE. In fact, I wish I could find some more because they would go straight into the stockings next month.
Whoa. Did I just type next month?!
kids these days……geesh.
Wait….i like them too.
Yes, Silly Bandz are all the rage. (I’m in Birmingham, too.) One of my good friends just set up a kiosk at the Galleria to sell them. They were originally only going to be open until Halloween, but sales have been so good that she just extended her lease through the holidays. Yesterday she got in a shipment of 288 Christmas Silly Bandz, and they were sold out within an hour!
And — NOT to add to the hysteria — BUT there are new designs on the way: 12-packs of Cars (Trucks, Vans, Buses, Beetles), Fun Shapes (Flowers, Hearts, Stars, Four-Leaf Clovers, Christmas Trees and Stockings), and Animals (Alligators, Porcupines, Moose, Seagulls). April knows my boys are cuh-razy about them, so she sends me the “news.” :)
us too!
and i’m the worst mom because i haven’t broken down and bought any. jett keeps trading cool pencils to add to his collection!
Never seen them before (I live in Michigan – maybe it’s a regional thing??).
AndiK & Name Nazi – OH MY GOSH I loved slap bracelets!!! That is until the wrapping came off one and it actually cut my wrist when I slapped it on. :)
We haven’t seen them yet, but I’m sure it’s only a matter of time. Or maybe I could be the coolest mommy ever and introduce them…naaahhh…
Those are way better than the jelly bracelets from the 80′s!
I would have been totally hooked! :)
Oddly enough, my daughter had these tonight at church…someone gave them to her…first time I’ve seen them.
Oh, my! Do we have them in Texas yet? I’m a first grade teacher so you would think I’d have seen them by now….
I, too, am from Birmingham and agree with Ashley. I, too, am a teacher and I have a mighty fine collection of animal bracelets of my own!! Turtle, Kangaroo, Rabbit, and like 4 others that I can’t remember! I wish I was the person who created the darn things and maybe I wouldn’t have to be a teacher anymore!
Shhhhh… don’t tell my little Okie girls. We haven’t seen them yet and I’m afraid mass hysteria would follow.
I have never seen these before…and I have 3 kids. Must not have caught on yet around here or they are the only thing that isn’t on the Christmas list!! :)
They haven’t reached NE Ohio yet. They looked like a cookie cutter to me! Mmmmm, cookies. Sugar, chocolate chip, peanut butter . . .
My hubby found out about these things as his very first day as a high-school teacher this year. (Ever. His first job.)
About day 3, he was gifted with a duck bracelet. He is a 28-year-old male.
Them kids are nuts.
Haven’t hit Oregon but I want some!! So cute!!
Never have seen them – they are cute – what a clever way to train children to BUY stuff – :::sigh:::: oh well for those in need and without a neat kiosk nearby
http://silly-bands.com/
I’ve never seen them. Do they go back to their animal shape when you take them off your wrist?
We live in Cullman and my nephew is OBSESSED. It’s a sickness.
You know your kids are getting older when you don’t know about the current bracelet rage. I’ve never seen them in my life.
You Southerners are such trend setters.
Yes- I have gone to lenghts only rivaled by my own mother’s when she was looking for Cabbage Patch Kids- and yes, for rubber bands.
Never seen them in OK, but then again, I have boys. They seem very cool…like jelly bracelets, slap bracelets, etc. My niece would love them!
No from Texas. :) Never seen ‘em.
Never heard of them…although I just had a scary thought – my kids are going to old enough one day to be into the silly stuff like this that becomes popular and I’m going to be one of “those moms” running all over town for…rubberbands? Or whatever comes next…..ugh!!!!
I live in CA and have never even seen those things before, but they’re adorable! Actually thinking of tracking some down for my daughter! ;)
hmmm…. never seen them
All I can say is YES. We are right there with you.
Yes. Completely in love. We are right there with you. And the day I caved and bought them for my son was the day they banned them from his school.
Nice.
I am a second grade teacher and I have never seen these before! I bet my kids would love them though…and hopefully leave them at home :)
I’m getting them soon in my store here in Texas. http://Www.lindentreeboutique.com :) they are so cool! We love them!
I’m in Texas & have never seen them. My kids would love these!! About how much do they cost?
http://www.sillybandz.com
4.95 for a set of 24 and they have Christmas sets…
How cool is that? I used to wear the little rubber bracelets… they weren’t in shapes though. <>
My 8 year old daughter wears so many she can’t pull her long-sleeved shirts down over them. My son cried for 20 minutes the other night when his dinosaur bracelet broke. So, YES, we’re crazy about them in this SC town.
Why, oh why, can’t I come up with some crazy little invention that would be all the rage!?
I’ve never seen them before, but my kids are 11 and 13 so they might have missed this trend. They look really cool, though.
Never heard of them or seen them. I guess we could be trendsetters! Unless of course, they are the rage in public school and we don’t know it because we homeschool???
I’m in the Frozen Tundra (MN) and they haven’t made their way here yet. I can bet that they will be very popular though when they do.
This is the first time I’ve heard of them. They are so cute! I think I’d rather have them slap dab crazy over those than these crazy Pokemon and Bakugan. At least I know what a giraffe is but a Beedrill? or a Dragonoid? Beats me!
Well, I’m just devastated that I have not seen them and know nothing about them.
Dern. I love them!
Boo-
I’ve never heard of these bracelets….we homeschool, so I guess this proves how “unsocialized” we are. :) But they are awesome and I know my kids would dig them.
Off topic, with the El Salvador team going for a Compassion tour, I just wanted to tell you that 2 years ago, when you were in Uganda, I sponsored a child, Shivan, who we still sponsor and love and adore. I have a HUGE folder of letters from her. :) It has been an awesome experience. We hope to meet her in the future. THANKS for going!
My kids would love something like this.
I’ve never seen them before. I’m sure my daughter will love them in a couple years, but odds are that they’ll be out of vogue by then!
I’m curious as to what those ‘glorified rubber bands’ cost? :)
And then add into that mix BENDAROOS!!!!!!
Yes. They are crazy about them here in my neck of the woods… especially the girls.
There are only two shops in town that carry the bracelets and many parents seem to have set up vigil in these stores in an effort to snatch an overpriced bag or twenty when the come off the truck. They are so popular that at one store, they have created a waiting list.
Where’ve I been?
I want one too!
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