I ripped open a wrist slap bracelet and found out the internal part is just a cut up tape measure
Wednesday, 12 Mar 2025
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They’ve always been
Best business model ever.
Recycling old tape measures.
Coat them and sell them as slappers.
And you bought it
I’ve seen this post on reddit numerous times, in fact on redditor compiled a list of everytime someone figured this out and it was I the 100s
🔫🔫 Always has been
NOooooo! You destroyed my magical illusion… 😩
Boyo you’re about 30 years late on that.
There’s a brewery in Nova Scotia that sells beer coozies that are essentially 2 or 3 slap bracelets wrapped in foam. I thought it was genius
I’d rather wear a cut up tape measure than that bracelet, for what it’s worth!
This guy is 30 years late to the party
Always has been
They were around when I was a kid 35+ years ago. And we knew then that they were tape measures. It’s funny that this gets posted every now and again like a new discovery.
Wait till you rip open the tape measure and find inside is just a wrist slap bracelet
tape measures are very sharp. slap bracelets are tape measures. Kids in residential psych wards love sharp things. one Christmas they were gifted slap bracelets as part of their Christmas stockings by well meaning grandmas.
It turned out the way you think
Always felt familiar.
TIL anybody didn’t already know this.
Yup they always are, recycling baby!!!
A tale as old as time
It’s bits of tape measure all the way down
No freaking way.
Astronaut meme
This is older than that tablet about the shitty copper.
That slaps!
First time?
That’s pretty clever, actually
I don’t understand. Is there a problem? /s
There was a company out there that had a surplus of measuring tapes and a really smart employee with a million dollar idea.
Yes, I remember seeing these sold as originally intended, as a short roll up measuring tape in an auto shop as a kid. 🙂
You’ve ruined the slappy Christmas fun
Until dad gets into the eggnog
Saving money lol
of course they are.
Well I’ll be.
Laughs in gen x
I remember being in the 5th grade when thee things were *so cool*. Everybody wanted one.
China is selling our trash back to us. It is pretty brilliant.
Got some of these once…. I was kinda irritated they were measuring tapes inside…
Did some research….
Long story short (because I don’t remember all the details)
The way measuring tape metal is made/ heated… or something… to retract and coil up…
That process to the metal is needed to make slap bracelets so they coil up.
Measuring tapes are often used for this reason.
And yes China recycles trash into items… weird when you want something new… but slightly economical and eco friendly if they were actually charging used prices 🤷♀️
Or are tape measures just naked slap bracelets? 🤔
One time a dog chewed up a rattle my dad bought my son in Mexico.
I reached in it to keep the bell before I threw the rest away…
There was no bell
Just 3 beans and a beer cap
I’ve told this story once and apparently it started a new sub
r/3BeansAndABeerCap
I’ll be damned
It only works in metric countries.
Everything in this world is a lie
Son of a bitch
I thought everyone knew this? Fml is another reminder that I’m old. Thanks, Reddit…
That makes sense, come to think about it…
tape measure business not doing well? okay let’s pivot towards toy business
Damn! And here I was thinking I’m the one living under a rock…
They snap. Its far better to reuse them than to have them make snap bits out of new metal.
And now it’s 100% more useful.