Comments on: Unitasker Wednesday: Plastic wishbones

By: Just What We Needed Dept: Plastic Disposable Wishbones : Green Resouces

Just What We Needed Dept: Plastic Disposable Wishbones : Green Resouces — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:38:05 +0000

[...] to one of life’s great problems, the annual Thanksgiving fight over who gets the wishbone! Unclutterer shows us the Lucky Break Plastic [...]

By: Just What We Needed Dept: Plastic Disposable Wishbones - Treadmills

Just What We Needed Dept: Plastic Disposable Wishbones - Treadmills — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 06:56:38 +0000

[...] to one of life’s great problems, the annual Thanksgiving fight over who gets the wishbone! Unclutterer shows us the Lucky Break Plastic [...]

By: Adam Snider

Adam Snider — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 20:15:30 +0000

As stupid as these are, they’re not really clutter. Once you’ve had your fun with your plastic wishbones, toss the pieces into the recycle bin and be done with it.

That said, I still think that they’re silly and wasteful.

By: Tree Hugger « Blog-Feast.com Blog Collection

Tree Hugger « Blog-Feast.com Blog Collection — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 18:14:40 +0000

[...] to one of life’s great problems, the annual Thanksgiving fight over who gets the wishbone! Unclutterer shows us the Lucky Break Plastic [...]

By: Just What We Needed Dept: Plastic Disposable Wishbones | How Green Is My Blog

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:56:37 +0000

[...] to one of life’s great problems, the annual Thanksgiving fight over who gets the wishbone! Unclutterer shows us the Lucky Break Plastic [...]

By: Charlotte K

Charlotte K — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 14:53:03 +0000

Hmmmm….I like the idea of chocolate wishbones, but these plastic ones are a disgrace.

When I was a kid, in my family the youngest person at the table (usually ME unless our cousins were present) got the wishbone and chose the person to pull it with. No family arguments about it.

By: Laetitia in Australia

Laetitia in Australia — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 02:10:22 +0000

Just think – no greasy fingers from the real deal! I like the chocolate idea (dairy free I’d hope but not holding my breath).

By: Pat

Pat — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 21:29:01 +0000

There are chocolate wishbones too. The person who wins gets a larger piece of chocolate to eat. I think they are way better than the ones made of bone.

By: Loren

Loren — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:40:31 +0000

I thought they were doggy treats at first. Which I thought was kinda cute, and I was thinking ‘That’s not a Unitasker it’s a snack AND a toy.’ I am disappointed that I am wrong, maybe I just came up with the next million dollar idea.
Seriously why would you buy these.

By: momofthree

momofthree — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:20:40 +0000

my kids are laughing as hard as i am over this insipid things.

we can just see the toy safety commission telling us not to buy these due to the pointy tops & the splintering plastic when breaking…all because you could “poke your eye out”.

By: marcelebrate

marcelebrate — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:12:08 +0000

They may not take up much landfill space, but they’ll take up plenty of space in the belly of an Albatross: http://www.chrisjordan.com/current_set2.php?id=11

Think before you buy cheap plastic crap like this. It will be around for thousands of years and is not guaranteed to simply stay in the under layers at a landfill.

By: Lori

Lori — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:06:08 +0000

I have to agree that they do look somewhat like weapons. That being said, I wish I’d invented them!

By: Bea

Bea — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:02:21 +0000

Huh, I didn’t think wishbone breaking was such an exclusively American thing. I grew up with first-generation German immigrants, and each wishbone was a libations-toasting event. :]

We never fought over the wishbone, people just called dibs on it and then we shared in their fun. It may sound odd, but I distinctly recall the wishbone teaching me patience and family involvement as a kid.

But this? Ugh. Further evidence of just how ridiculous we’ve gotten. Diluting a simple tradition with cheap wasteful plastic crap so that everyone can be happy, cause god forbid we have to share as a family.

By: Karen

Karen — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:01:01 +0000

mary—here in the US, there’s a tradition of taking the wishbone out of the turkey after Thanksgiving dinner, letting it dry (ugh) and then two people take hold of it and break it, after making a wish. Whoever gets the larger piece, it’s said, has their wish granted.

By: mary

mary — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:55:24 +0000

I’m Scottish, and seriously, I have NO idea what these could possibly be about!