| Animal rubber bands are everywhere. Depending on | | | | collect them all. |
| where you live, it may seem like you cannot go | | | | It is hard to believe that something as simple as a |
| anywhere without seeing these colorful, animal | | | | colorful animal shaped rubber band could make such a |
| bracelets on the arms of everyone from little kids to | | | | huge impact on kids but with the state of the economy |
| adults. | | | | today, where money is getting harder to come by, |
| Animal bracelets have been around since 2002 but did | | | | parents have found a winner with animal rubber bands. |
| not really take off as a hot accessory until late 2009. | | | | If it makes your kids happy and popular at school and |
| That is when kids in Birmingham, AL began snatching | | | | costs less than a new CD or iPod why would you not |
| them off store shelves like they were the only thing | | | | grab a few packs? |
| needed to survive in the world. They had to have | | | | Adults are getting in on the fun as well. Animal rubber |
| them. | | | | bands are beginning to show up in offices around the |
| The animal rubber band craze has not slowed down | | | | country and rightfully so. Who could not use a little |
| by any means. In fact it is spreading across the United | | | | amusement at work? Life gets more than a little boring |
| States like a wild fire. Why?o They are fun, colorful | | | | when you are living it from a grey, carpeted cubicle all |
| silicone wristbands that snap back into animal shapes | | | | day every day. At least now you can have a purple |
| when you take them offo They are cheap. You can | | | | horse or pink pig to hold your papers for you and keep |
| get a pack of 24 of them for fewer than five bucks.o | | | | you company. I am sure your coworkers will not get |
| Kids can wear them, share them, trade or collect them | | | | worried about you... unless you start talking to them or |
| all day long.o Manufacturers are coming out with new | | | | even worse taking their advice. After all they are just |
| shapes every month making it all most impossible to | | | | animal rubber bands. |