slo’s WEDNESDAY 5/3 poll - Rubber Bracelets

[disneychrista]

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Hahaha... @slo at first I thought you meant those thin black rubber bangles that we'd wear a bunch of them at once like Madonna.

I used to wear at least ten at once.

That is what I thought as well. Those, back in the day, I wore. In all different colors, not just black.

 

[Micca]

Strictly a magic Band user

 

[PollyannaMom]

Hahaha... @slo at first I thought you meant those thin black rubber bangles that we'd wear a bunch of them at once like Madonna.

Similar to that, I pictured the colorful ones we wore kind of looped through each other in the 80's, like the bottom picture here:

When I first saw your poll @slo , I thought you were referring to those loop bracelets that my daughter and her friends all made years ago

Oh, I forgot about those too!

 

[PollyannaMom]

To answer the real question, we have a few, but I don't actually wear them - we so sometimes use them to mark whose identical water bottle is whose though!

 

[slo]

I have in the past in support of something but not recently.


Sidenote.....flying off to Charleston, SC for a week. Will miss everyone.

Have a fun and safe trip!!!

I do, but it's an ID bracelet. Red rubber band with a small metal plate in the middle.
I'm an avid walker and years ago I found a website for runners and saw the ID bracelets they sold. I ordered one since I never carried anything with me when I walked. Now I also have a few health issues that make me want to be identifiable where ever I may be in case I fall or pass out.

When my knees still allowed me to run, I went to the pet store and made myself a dog tag with all my information and then put it on a chain to wear around my neck when I ran (along with a house key) - I never took anything with me either and I didn't even have a phone because I used my ipod nano for music (that's going back a few years - LOL!)

I have one. It was I got it from a fundraiser for a disaster in the area I used to live.

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Have a super fun time!!!

I don’t have any and would not wear one if I did.

When I first saw your poll @slo , I thought you were referring to those loop bracelets that my daughter and her friends all made years ago. Dozens and dozens of them. I’m pretty sure my now 21 year old daughter still has one of these kits in her bedroom. This is what I’m referring to:

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My girls used to love love love making these.
I still have a few in my jewelry box that they made me a long time ago.

 

[LuvOrlando]

The wristband thing is a mostly school driven tween & teen thing with bracelets shared by various charities through the schools. When my kids were in this age group I'd wear them as protocols dictated, but can't say I was a fan, it was part of the suburban uniform. The bands are a great way to raise awareness in this age group though.

At some point there was quite a dustup in the town next to ours years back when the double entendre breast cancer awareness slogan "I boo-ies" slid into lewd double entendre territory with young men in a local HS & this upset a local administrator who was fighting breast cancer herself. It got messy, went to the courts, I understood both sides but it was a great big mess. Pretty sure the whole bracelet thing was stomped out by the majority of parents who didn't realize it was going on until it was a big thing, most parents in the burbs don't like a school encouraging anything offensive to cancer survivors & that eclipsed the subject. Suburban parents tend to lean more libertarian with our kids, as in, "Don't start nothing there won't be nothin'." There was the small group who fought it in the courts but this was in no way the majority... again messy. This is what I think of when I see the bracelets now.

 

[EACarlson]

I have a couple that I wear very rarely. One was a fundraiser for the Crazy Horse Memorial in SD that I wear when I go to Pow-Wows and one is a bisexual pride one that I wear in June.

 

[unrequited23]

I'm a huge fan of the rubber citronella bracelets, but I wear those for selfish reasons, not to raise awareness or support a cause.

 

[BrianL]

Strictly a magic Band user

You know, now that I think about it, the rubber braceley would be a good form factor for a Magic Band. They wouldn't be as hard to get on and easy to fall off.

 

[georgina]

No, the only jewelry I wear regularly is my wedding ring.

 

[E&Cmom]

Maybe as a kid but not now

 

[Kathryn Merteuil]

I don't have any, but I have in the past. They are the kind of thing you would wear a couple times to be nice then put away in a drawer somewhere. When I was teaching they would hand those out on a regular basis to celebrate something, or promote a cause.

 

[flyingdumbo127]

For a very brief time in 3rd grade I believe back in the 80s I wore a 2 color rubber bracelet. I'm neither a jewelry or fad person but lol thought those were cool years ago, possibly because quiet even then me knew that a cute boy wore one lol.

 

[kanne323]

I worked in pediatric oncology for almost 20 years until recently... I have a ton of them. Many families would give staff bracelets for their children, and many of the foundations we worked with had their own, as well, so I have hundreds of them. I don't ever throw away the bracelets for the kids. I don't wear them- I'd wear them when I was given one, and then if there was a specific reason for that particular child- if I was doing a school visit for them, transplant day, bell ringing, or funeral. But it would have been impossible to wear every single child's bracelet through their entire treatment. That said, I loved receiving them, and kept them all.

 

[luvthatduke]

I wear my "One With Them" bracelet each time I go out.
DH wears his everyday to work, etc.
It shows our support for persecuted Christians around the world,
and is a conversation starter.
It reminds me to pray for them each time I put it on.
They are sold by Voice of the Martyrs online.