Maybe it’s just me but these things don’t look very comfortable. I guess I can see if my dad can find me one so I can check it out and give a review from experience instead of just an opinion based on a picture.

The next big thing has arrived!!

Rubber Band Animal Bracelets are as hot as a pot of coffee to the face!!

I don’t believe that they are as hot as a pot of coffee but I wonder if I bought some if I could sell them to the kids at school. I live in Colombia S.A, so I have another week before school starts back. Maybe I can get some before then.

It’s a well known fact that kids love rubber bracelets but we also like other types of jewelry. So… I find it sad when companies in China feel that our parents (are such cheapskates) that they would put the dollar before our health.

What is cadmium?

Cadmium is a naturally occurring, silvery-white, lustrous metal. It is soft enough that it can be cut with a knife. Cadmium is chemically similar to mercury and zinc and is often a by-product of zinc refining.

Where is it found?

Cadmium is a relatively rare element that is uniformly distributed in the Earth’s crust. Industrial and municipal waste is the main source of cadmium pollution.

Kid’s charms and jewelry are sold at a shop at whole sale market Tuesday Jan. 12, 2010 in Yiwu, China. The toxic metal cadmium is a common ingredient in the earrings, bracelets, charms and other baubles being churned out by local factories and piled high in city’s wholesale markets. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)Kid’s charms and jewelry are sold at a shop at whole sale market Tuesday Jan. 12, 2010 in Yiwu, China. The toxic metal cadmium is a common ingredient in the earrings, bracelets, charms and other baubles being churned out by local factories and piled high in city’s wholesale markets. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko) Where is it used?

Cadmium is used in the manufacture of nickel-cadmium batteries, and for electroplating other metals or alloys to protect them against corrosion. It is also used in making pigments and to stabilize plastic. In smaller amounts, it is used to make fungicides, control rods and shields for nuclear reactors, television picture tubes, motor oils and curing agents for rubber.

http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2010/01/12/f-cadmium-faq.html

So…save your money and buy some silicone wristbands from me.

HOOVER, Ala. — First there were the WWJD wristbands, and then Lance Armstrong’s yellow Livestrong wristbands and Bono’s white One wristbands.

Now there’s Believer Bands, multicolored rubber bracelets in the shape of familiar Christian icons that allow trend-chasing tweens and teens to share the gospel from the palm of their hand.

It started last year, when the Silly Bandz City kiosk at a mall in Birmingham started the craze with stretchy animal-shaped wristbands.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/life/religion/6794147.html

Out of everything I’ve seen so far that has been used to remind people about Jesus and what he did for us, this is the first that looked totally uncomfortable.

I could be wrong but don’t you think these things look as if they would drive you to cuss before the day was out?