Fads spinning the rounds again......

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Those dang ol fidget spinners.  I think we have all seen them.  Long story short, they are these plastic toys that spin on bearings in the middle and the original idea was to help ASD, ADD kids concentrate better. These things have been banned in some schools, wrecked havoc on educators nerves, caused choking hazards, and the list goes on.  This whole thing had got me thinking again, just how many fads have I seen make the rounds: let's see, when I was a kid in the 80s, there was sash belts pretty much a piece of fabric around your waist), push down socks, cabbage patch dolls, popples (I had one of those, lol), perms, Morey Boogie t shirts.  My teen years in the 90s were not that much better, bringing in slap bracelets (which got banned in my school because you could tear off the casing and the metal inside part actually cut wrists), guess and Girbaud jeans, furbies, tomagotchi/giga pets, pogs, acid wash jeans, paint splatter jeans. Now my kids are this fad age, and I can't keep them all straight. Granted, whIle I would not buy my kids a fidget spinner mostly due to they really don't need one, I would just say, let the fad ride and die out.  Five years from now, those same unsold fidget spinners will be sitting on a discount store shelf collecting dust.