SHOCKING NEWS! USA Today Says Silly Bandz Craze Over …
So, if your kid’s Christmas gift consists of mostly Silly Bandz, you might need to do more shopping … 🙂
Don’t tell Santa, but the national infatuation with Silly Bandz and other shaped, silicone bands that were America’s hottest fad in 2010, seems to have snapped.
With Christmas days away, many retailers say they have cut way back on the number of bands they carry and some have stopped selling them altogether.
Via USA Today.
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18 December 2010
7 Comments
I bought about 3 Packs of those when they frist started the craze… They are neat, but I knew they wouldn’t last forever. Whatever the maker of Silly Bandz has in store, it will probably be something like Light-Up Magnets or some little trinket nobody needs but are super cool.
I banned my kids getting any more of them a while ago. I really didn’t have a problem with them having them. The problem was that they left them lying all over the house and generally didn’t care about them. Yet when we were in the store, they wanted more. They got shot down.
Yep…banned in first grade and…I banned them on the little league field. nothing like a kid doodling with his wrist while a line drive imprints baseball stitches in his forehead…It was a blast having all the parents collect them in the dug out during games…HA!
I saw an interview with the creator…he’s got a few more fads up his sleeve…all top secret of course (no, not a Val Kilmer sequel)…can’t wait…LOL
That’s not all that’s over! My local Hallmark shop (University Place, WA) has hundreds of zhu zhu pets marked down to 3/$9.99. I remember watching Jilly hit $55 on eBay before last years’ Christmas. The circular tube ‘things’ are $7.99.
I hate those. Glad to hear that. At my daughter’s school, they were banned for being such a distraction. I think they are bah humbug, and I don’t understand the big deal. I wish I invented them, though.
Dang Met… that is sooo what I had gotten you! Guess I’m off to take back the iBandz… coffeebandz… SDCCBandz (they sold them, then didn’t, then tried again, then tested selling them…), and the WonderWomanInvisibleBandz! These are all the only reason I went out on Black Friday!
Maybe you’d like a Sing-A-Ma-jig??? I hear there might be a special Ransburg Lenticular one!
Ahh, what a pitty. Finally, the vacuum might not get clogged with them anymore!