Silly Bandz

It seems I just finished singing "School's Out for Summer" and now we're within spitting distance of Labor Day. It's a bittersweet time because although I'll miss the great summertime activities, we're entering the crisp Fall settings and Halloween fun. My new town has a lot of campers coming through to stop at Cabela's, but it's more prominently known for the "King Frost Parade" which is a huge Halloween parade featuring King Frost, who represents the coming of Winter.



I'm getting ahead of myself. It's Back to School time, which means fancy new Jonas Brothers folders and Spongebob lunchboxes for the kids. The slap bracelets of my day have been replaced with a new fad called "Silly Bandz" or simple put, shaped rubber bands. They're used more as a fashion accessory and collectible than a means of keeping papers together. I can get behind any popular childrens fad that can be purchased for $1. Especially when it's a more fashionable way to do a timeless misdeed like flicking rubber bands at your schoolmates. Traditionally they come in cheap packs of themes like sports, beach, farm, dinosaurs, etc. The set above is one of the more expensive sets ($3-6) featuring the Disney Princesses and has equal male counterparts such as Marvel Superheros.

I'm not quite sure how  they're made, but I like to think they have machines jettisoning out tubes of rubber pumpkins and taking slices off to form bands. I like Silly Bandz, and am hoping they aren't the first thing to be banned this school year.

Posted by Mystie at 8/29/2010 2:26 PM
Categories: toys
 

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