I HATE Hair Bands

So it's not just our cats then...

I swear ours also have a stash somewhere given how quickly both my wife's and my hair bands disappear.

back when I still had enough hair to grow long, I used those things a lot. I was much better about leaving them about though

The0retical said:

I have a problem with hair bands and barrettes, my 3 year old seems to leave them everywhere and the cutesy barrettes ones are as bad as stepping on a Lego in the middle of the night.

My wife's hair is so thick that she breaks the hair bands all the time so generally I don't find them everywhere.

My tired brain read barrettes as berettas. I have a mental image of cutesy pink berettas littered all over. Though, I bet stepping on one would rank up there with Lego.

oldopelguy said:

My wife was terrible about losing those until my sister gave her a bracelet designed to hold one without it being tight on her wrist. That little bit of whatever is worth any amount of $ for the sanity it brings.

Please give me more information. Please. 

My dear wife suffers from the disease the OP stated.  I need a link to buy this bracelet, a picture of it, or a google key word to search.  Please.

Indy-Barely Functional-Guy said:

oldopelguy said:

My wife was terrible about losing those until my sister gave her a bracelet designed to hold one without it being tight on her wrist. That little bit of whatever is worth any amount of $ for the sanity it brings.

Please give me more information. Please. 

My dear wife suffers from the disease the OP stated.  I need a link to buy this bracelet, a picture of it, or a google key word to search.  Please.

Amazon

Those of you who do not nor have ever had long hair will never understand.

I wish I still had my long hair. Between balding and working a corporate gig, it's out. I do miss it though, but I am not sure it would be looked upon favourably by somebody getting close to 50

In reply to mad_machine :

I have an uncle that's close to 70, with a ponytail. It looks just damn silly. 

Three of the four females in my house use those.  The lead female returns from her hunt with a couple dozen and within about two weeks the females of the pack begin attacking each other due to the scarcity of hair bands.  I can only assume that they are being consumed as food or they get absorbed into the hair.  I have theorized that if I can find where the hair bands go, I may also discover the location of all the toilet paper that I've bought - there just isn't enough volume in the pipes for it all to have exited the dwelling through the plumbing...

I had a chuckle when I read the OP and was looking at a hair band on the table right in front of my morning bowl of cereal.    

RealMiniParker said:

In reply to mad_machine :

I have an uncle that's close to 70, with a ponytail. It looks just damn silly. 

One of my best friends from way back in Grad school has a ponytail.  He is in his late 60s and is a Phd with the U of F.   Since he is a Vietnam vet, I leave him be.  He's earned the right.  The stories that guy told.          

YES:

Most, but not all, Hair Metal rules. Especially 80's Era Dokken. They rule the most. 

NO:

I also find these all over the house. Also, SWMBO can never find one when she needs one, even though there are approximately 1,847 of them in the house. 

93EXCivic said:

Jumper K Balls said:

The missus doesn't have any hair bands around but I find these buggers EVERYWHERE!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I came here to say that. They are literally everywhere.

Huh, I guess that varies by mate and hairstyle.  The last time I saw one of those in my house was flying off of Witchy Poo in a Bugs Bunny cartoon from the '50s.

spitfirebill said:

RealMiniParker said:

In reply to mad_machine :

I have an uncle that's close to 70, with a ponytail. It looks just damn silly. 

One of my best friends from way back in Grad school has a ponytail.  He is in his late 60s and is a Phd with the U of F.   Since he is a Vietnam vet, I leave him be.  He's earned the right.  The stories that guy told.          

Imagine that, me, working for you?

I was like 16 when I kept my hair long and would only put it up to keep it from getting caught in a lathe, otherwise I left it down, presumably looking a lot like the protagonist from Balls of Fury whose name currently escapes me.

I keep my hair short enough that I don't have to comb/brush it. Mrs T.J.'s hair is short enough that there are no hair bands in my house to speak of. One more thing to be grateful for I guess.

While I don’t care for the music of hair bands, I do appreciate the influence they had. It was an effeminate Vince Neil that Steven Tyler spotted in a bar and inspired him to right “Dude looks like a lady”.  More importantly, it was the backlash against hair bands that put 90’s rock back on the true path. 

For the hair items, I haven’t used any in close to a decade but SWMBO still has them around. They make a great impromptu cat toy. 

In reply to mad_machine :

Those are exactly the wonder product! Buy one for every person you know with long hair and you will save the cost in replacement hair bands next week.

The ones with the metal thing on them hurt way more than the equivalent rubber band. And the increased mass means more range than a rubber band. 

My wife recently cut her hair short enough where she doesn't really need them anymore.  I am so, so sad...I don't like short hair on women.  I've been begging her to grow it back out. 

My 10 year old daughter has very long hair, so she makes up for the hair band collection.

dean1484 said:

The ones with the metal thing on them hurt way more than the equivalent rubber band. And the increased mass means more range than a rubber band. 

these are the ones you need to watch out for: