My son saw the rubber band bracelet that my niece made for her Uncle's (my husband's) birthday and wanted to make one too. The problem at the time was that my husband's birthday is about a week before our 3rd child was born. There are now 3 in our family of 5 with a birthday in September, my husband, my second son, and my new daughter. Who would have thought?
To make a long story a little longer, my son kept asking (badgering really) to make a rubber band bracelet, day after day. Being a new mom and so tired I felt drunk, my usually fairly frugal self, would have been satisfied to just buy one of their looms, already! Unfortunately, during my weekly sleep walk through Walmart food buying trip, I could find the rubber bands but not the stinking loom.