Thanks everyone. I heard somewhere that these are supposed to be a stress reliever. Sometimes I stress out easily as was wondering if these might help due to the motion but I would never use one where it would be distracting to others. Even the cashier at Walmart had a Fidget Spinner.
I was always scared of ninja stars.
Ponyfan
Personally I think these are some of the dumbest things ever invented. It does nothing but spin in a circle...yay? In two months you will find millions of these in the trash.For a lot of kids, yeah. But, it does certainly have a purpose for people on the autism spectrum or have something like ADHD. Like Lhianneth says, the repetitive motion is good for relaxing/focusing. For my small hands spinners wouldn't be effective, but the motion certainly would for my ADHD. (I would also likely have used it privately or under a desk, but I am also an adult compared to the teenage demographic that seem to be attached to them right now)
Whats this fidget cube everyone but me knows about?
I found a couple of traditional wooden tops that i like but they require a surface to use. I took one to work but my fingers never stop moving there anyway so i've only used it a couple of times there, but it's nice to have around especially after taking my ponies home.
Whats this fidget cube everyone but me knows about?
I found a couple of traditional wooden tops that i like but they require a surface to use. I took one to work but my fingers never stop moving there anyway so i've only used it a couple of times there, but it's nice to have around especially after taking my ponies home.
This is. (http://www.fidgetcube.com/) It's a small cube, designed to help you focus when you're distracted. It has a lot of tactile aspects, including switches, buttons, and so forth, that you can "fidget" to burn off restlessness or excess energy. The goal is that by eliminating your desire to move around and fidget, you can focus on work or the task at hand.
It can also give you something to fixate on, if you're anxious, to get your mind off of whatever it is that causes your anxiety. People have used similar coping methods for ages, they just condensed them into a tidy package.
Personally I think these are some of the dumbest things ever invented. It does nothing but spin in a circle...yay? In two months you will find millions of these in the trash.For a lot of kids, yeah. But, it does certainly have a purpose for people on the autism spectrum or have something like ADHD. Like Lhianneth says, the repetitive motion is good for relaxing/focusing. For my small hands spinners wouldn't be effective, but the motion certainly would for my ADHD. (I would also likely have used it privately or under a desk, but I am also an adult compared to the teenage demographic that seem to be attached to them right now)
Personally I think these are some of the dumbest things ever invented. It does nothing but spin in a circle...yay? In two months you will find millions of these in the trash.For a lot of kids, yeah. But, it does certainly have a purpose for people on the autism spectrum or have something like ADHD. Like Lhianneth says, the repetitive motion is good for relaxing/focusing. For my small hands spinners wouldn't be effective, but the motion certainly would for my ADHD. (I would also likely have used it privately or under a desk, but I am also an adult compared to the teenage demographic that seem to be attached to them right now)
Hm, not sure I understand how that works, but if it helps it helps. From my angle it's just a dumb thing kids want because I think they'll all get bored with them after five seconds once they actually get them.
Thanks everyone. I got one today and found out that some stores are already putting them behind the registers and you have to specifically ask for them in order to buy them. I'm already having fun spinning it.
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I think every decade has that one toy that is totally obnoxious that the schools have to ban and it causes all sorts of trouble. I suppose this is a right of all young people growing up. I remember the items from my childhood that got banned from school.
I got the cube and it quite helps me stop destroying my fingernails. I do that out of stress or boredom most of the time. My classmates are going crazy about it and want to borrow it the whole time. xD
Haha sex-act-coding bracelets...adults are so ready to believe such things about kids. Seems a pretty creepy/fun fantasy! In my high school it was beer T shirts....all the kids had Corona t-shirts and if caught wearing one, they had to turn them inside out for the day. I had a joke T-shirt with a fake beer called "stego lite, prehistoric brew" that had a stegosaurus on the label and that got me in trouble. i argued it's not a beer T shirt because it's not a beer, but....there's no winning against the administration's fantasy. There was a lot more talk about beer because of that policy than there ever was from the T shirts themselves.
I just saw a new kind of spinner yesterday that has lights! yay. Now they'll really be getting confiscated.
I think every decade has that one toy that is totally obnoxious that the schools have to ban and it causes all sorts of trouble. I suppose this is a right of all young people growing up. I remember the items from my childhood that got banned from school.
Oh yeah, totally. In the 80s a lot of schools banned jelly bracelets, plus there was a bunch of hysteria about how they were really "sex bracelets" and the different colors represented different sex acts. Which is completely ridiculous, lol.
I heard today they come with hook shapes instead of round, and immediately imagined the shuriken one, and voila! it's been done. Sweeet.
I'll buy the first one I see that has ponies on it.
One spinner per household. They'll have to fight it out.
I heard today they come with hook shapes instead of round, and immediately imagined the shuriken one, and voila! it's been done. Sweeet.
I'll buy the first one I see that has ponies on it.
It almost certainly exists. One of the shops had fanart from series on theirs (which I do not condone, btw, but which means you can probably request custom artwork from several of those shops).
I think every decade has that one toy that is totally obnoxious that the schools have to ban and it causes all sorts of trouble. I suppose this is a right of all young people growing up. I remember the items from my childhood that got banned from school.
Oh yeah, totally. In the 80s a lot of schools banned jelly bracelets, plus there was a bunch of hysteria about how they were really "sex bracelets" and the different colors represented different sex acts. Which is completely ridiculous, lol.
I remember slap bracelets being banned too. I can understand that a little more than jelly bracelets, because they make noise.
That's super interesting about Snuggies originally being aimed at people in wheelchairs. Makes sense now that I think about it!I got the cube and it quite helps me stop destroying my fingernails. I do that out of stress or boredom most of the time. My classmates are going crazy about it and want to borrow it the whole time. xD
Ohhh, now that does make me want to get one. I am always unconsciously destroying my fingernails.
I never knew that about jelly bracelets, but I do remember them. I never really went through the jelly phase. I remember the shoes but those things hurt my feet so bad I couldn't see why anyone would wear them. I had no idea that those bracelets had a sexual reference to them. I must have lived a very sheltered life LOL.
We sell these at work, and once again someone stole one and left the box....... -_-
I tried to warn Walgreens about the constant theft going on in their toy department blind bags. They shrugged their shoulders and could have cared less. Makes you wonder why so many people working jobs today care so little about the company and their job to protect it from theft. I don't know the whole thing really bothered me.Probably because they aren't paid a decent wage and have to work at 1-2 other stores just to make ends meet. Lots of big stores treat their employees as idiots, thieves and liabilities instead of assets. You don't bust your butt to protect a company that doesn't want you to succeed.
I tried to warn Walgreens about the constant theft going on in their toy department blind bags. They shrugged their shoulders and could have cared less. Makes you wonder why so many people working jobs today care so little about the company and their job to protect it from theft. I don't know the whole thing really bothered me.Probably because they aren't paid a decent wage and have to work at 1-2 other stores just to make ends meet. Lots of big stores treat their employees as idiots, thieves and liabilities instead of assets. You don't bust your butt to protect a company that doesn't want you to succeed.
I tried to warn Walgreens about the constant theft going on in their toy department blind bags. They shrugged their shoulders and could have cared less. Makes you wonder why so many people working jobs today care so little about the company and their job to protect it from theft. I don't know the whole thing really bothered me.Probably because they aren't paid a decent wage and have to work at 1-2 other stores just to make ends meet. Lots of big stores treat their employees as idiots, thieves and liabilities instead of assets. You don't bust your butt to protect a company that doesn't want you to succeed.
Maybe not but what kind of integrity to yourself is that Emberly? I am one of those that feels that you give your all no matter what your situation is because, it is the right thing to do and shows the kind of person you are. Life will reward you for such integrity, but not a bad attitude and working only as much as you feel they deserve you too. Just sayin. ;) Sometimes in life we have to fight like a dog for what we want and we will get it if we put 100% in to the effort and believe in a good result. Its no excuse at all to allow someone to break the law and steal because our paychecks are too small. This is just the world according to Tula. :lol:
I worked in a fabric store for only six months, and after the first two months, I stopped caring about the company's bottom line. I did try to stop things like big scams still (even more disheartening: my boss allowed two scammers to rip us off repeatedly for hundreds of dollars at a time, though we warned her otherwise). Because it was my job, I did my best, but I stopped trying to push "above and beyond" because there was no point in it. Life doesn't reward you just because you work hard. Your employers do. In an ideal world, karma would come around and help out, sure, but in a company you know is rotten? Nope.
One of my co-workers and fellow managers was given an assessment for a raise. She passed said assessment with flying colours. Full marks. Worked her butt off to get high marks, and was working unpaid overtime, hoping they would see her effort and reward her. They did. They gave her a pat on the back: a raise of five cents to add to her already-too-low wage of $8.25, and told her that the store's shrink was too high for them to give her anything better. When she protested that our shrink was so high because we didn't have enough staff to walk the floor and prevent shoplifting, the GM and corporate both shrugged and said "tough toenails, that's the rule".
So if a company expects you to prevent theft, but doesn't give you the resources or means to prevent theft, and then continues to punish you because they didn't provide you with the means of preventing the theft, you get pretty bitter, pretty fast. They spent more money trying to keep employees from stealing on the job than they did on preventing blatant shoplifting.
About a month into having started working there, all employees were suddenly required to carry store-provided, clear plastic tote bags to and from work; all employees had to have their bags checked by management before they were allowed to exit the store for break or to go home; these costs could have been relegated to hiring more people on per shift to prevent shoplifting and shrink, and instead they put it towards making our employees feel like they were criminals. And most of our employees were already working another job on top of this one. Several quit, and went to work for our competitor when they opened a store down the road, because they didn't treat their employees like garbage.
I found my Fidget Cube at Walmart for $10 .
Ponyfan
Back in my day, we had rulers and pencils. The old person inside me thinks these fidget spinners are ridiculous and a waste of money.
...then I remember, I had Pogs...
I got one from MLP Box, it has Pinkie Pie on it. Even though its my favourite character I might pass it on. I have no idea what to do with it.
I was in the elevator at work yesterday and an older guy was talking about the custom fidget spinner he got off Etsy. It was pretty classy, the main body of it being wood. Looked like it had a ball bearing in it as well as some kind of skate board bearing(?). He said he quit smoking because of it.
I have yet to see one actually used for their intended purpose, so I'm not a fan. I think you're doing it wrong if you're paying more attention to one of them than to the movie a hundred other people are trying to watch.