Even though they are pointless, I had a reason to get them for my children. The fidget spinners are a fad, but one my kids are so obsessed with and cheap enough I could afford them. It seemed like a no brainer. Plus, I knew that if the kids believed they would somehow make them better kids, they probably would. Fastforward to present day, they have been lost/forgotten but if I had never gotten them I would still be pestered. I got to use them as a case study on how retail therapy as I call the "keeping up with the Jones". Peer pressure, gives nothing back if given in to. It reminds me of an idea my first husband had of taking the kids to toy stores and letting them touch and even pose with their toys, knowing that they would tire of them even before we could get to the counter to buy them, thus saving alot of money. It almost always works, only my husband now always sticks to traditional rules of do not touch anything and so going to places like ToysRUs is pure torture instead of cathartic. So, instead the kids watch a whole lot of videos anout toys, like ptoduct reviews. The kids know the ins and outs of every toy and they even got to have thrir own fidget spinners... for a while. (Glad that is over.)
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