As it turned out, they had just opened a carton of them This morning they are all sold out. In just one day! They have Silly Bands in stock! Give them a call at for more information. Silly Bands can't keep up with the orders and new stores can't get them.
We have heard from Hallmark in Aviation Mall that they will get them in "early June. Note to parents: While most fads can be annoying and costly, this fad has a "teachable" moment in it. Kids are being given these bands by others, sharing is rampant as is trading.
At 25 cents per band, it can be an inexpensive way to help your kids learn to share! We wanted to find out what all the craze was about for Silly Bands, and see just why they may be selling out as quickly as they are.
So, we talked with Julia Mannix, 10, of Queensbury Intermediate School who wanted to buy them with her birthday money yesterday. Maybe we no longer sport the multi-colored forearms that were the direct results of those transactions. But we still retain knowledge from them that helps us understand and participate in the world a bit better.
But perhaps the biggest gift SillyBandz or any fad can give us is that of perspective. In this way, their lack of longevity is their greatest strength. When trying to understand any social phenomena, social scientists often emphasize the need for a certain critical distance from their objects of study. It is incredibly difficult for someone to understand the social circumstances in which they are currently entangled.
At the same time, however, scientists know that there are specific insights to be gleaned from experiencing the event firsthand that an outside perspective can never hope to gain.
In this way, fads give us unique access to understanding ourselves a little bit better. We can study, from a distance, something that we have experienced directly, thereby gaining lasting value from it. It may seem that there is nothing comparable between the enormous changes that has wrought and a silly six-month fad like SillyBandz.
The world is currently suffering under the huge weight of a pandemic and all its devastating consequences. And as acutely disastrous as it is today, we will one day be past it. When that day comes, we are going to want to find meaning behind all the suffering we witnessed and experienced. And a world changed for the better is a beautiful goal to strive for. The changes the pandemic brings about in us may not be immediately apparent in measurable ways.
And though it might be tempting to see this and despair, and to condemn all the pain as meaningless, it is important to remember the lesson of the Silly Bandz. Silly Bandz were a fad, not a trend.
They disappeared, and by most metrics, have provided no value to us. But those months happened, and we took something from them. We were united by a shared experience, given new skills to bring into other contexts and granted the gift of hindsight. Whatever the new normal looks like on the surface after this pandemic, we are going to have been deeply affected , united and made stronger by an ordeal that is anything but meaningless.
Alicia is a Philosophy student at the University of Pittsburgh. Skip to content Toggle navigation. Thoughts x October 8, Yet its legacy lives on in subtle ways within us.
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