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Rubber Band Ball

A Rubber band ball is a ball made of rubber bands. Some people wrap rubber bands around a superball or a core object. That is not a real rubber band ball. A real rubber band ball is made of just rubber bands. You have to constantly add rubber bands because the rubber bands will start to break apart. Very few things are as tragic as the inevitable decline of a ball of rubber bands.

I’ve had a rubber band ball since 1997. I had a handful of rubber bands in my pocket (for general mischief like beestings and launching wads of paper) and somehow the rubber bands formed a perfect ball. It was fate. It created itself. I just needed to help it grow. I don’t add rubber bands to it for months at a time, but every now and then I have to provide a maintenance layer. Fifteen years later and it’s bigger than a softball. Rubber band balls are better than paper clip chains.

Critically Rated at 15/17

100% Natural Rubber Band Ball

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