Leave it to a five-year-old to come up with this ingenious idea.
Also, I feel I need to apologize for hardly posting in the last couple of weeks. I ended up on the wrong side of a goat fight and my fibula (one of the long bones that runs down the lower half of the leg) almost popped out of place. I say almost, because it was only partially out of place. Thank the Lord, it popped right back in that night and I was only left with a good limp for a couple weeks. That limp, however, made doing chores take forever. Perhaps I’ll make a funny story of it for a Diabolical Baby Brigade post.
Anyway, my husband gets poison ivy terribly easily. If he looks at it, he will catch it. Especially around his wrists.
When poison ivy rashes become bad enough, they bubble up into big blisters and are a nuisance from rubbing against everything and, then, spreading the puss everywhere when the bubbles open. To keep that from happening, he often made himself a temporary arm wrap with tissues. To hold them on his wrist, he would use tape.
However, using one hand to tape the tissues around his wrist was not an easy task and often became a headache. Not only that, but using only one hand made it difficult to tape the tissues securely enough to stay in place and, so, they often shifted and caused more annoyance than help.
One night, while he was complaining about how much of a pain it was trying to tape tissues together. Our just-past-toddler-stage daughter brought over a wrist slap bracelet a friend had given her, grabbed a tissue, and slapped the bracelet around his wrist within the second.
That simple slap bracelet held the tissues in place perfectly and made switching out old tissues for new a quick breeze.
Who knew?