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Boredom Inspired Handmade Slingshot with Vintage Rubber Band
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The listing, Boredom Inspired Handmade Slingshot with Vintage Rubber Band has ended.

It is absolutely amazing what children will come up with when left to their imaginations. My 10 year old boy and 9 year old girl have spent the summer with no TV, no computers, and no video games. They've made their way through books, board games, and the great outdoors.

And they've gotten creative. What we have here in this listing is a Bart Simpson inspired wooden slingshot, made from a naturally "Y" shaped twig found on a rural property near Austin Texas.

For the "sling" portion of the slingshot, the technology deprived tweens found a decaying rubber band, red in color, that had been exposed to the elements for an unspecified length of time.

It should be noted that while this piece of art is functional, it is intended as a display piece only; who knows how long the rubber band will last!

No adults assisted in the making of this product.

No animals, vegetables, or minerals were harmed in the testing of this product, though I believe the side of an old car experienced some denting.
Questions & Comments
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Cute description!!
Jul 30th, 2010 at 9:04:05 PM PDT by
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Thanks!
Jul 31st, 2010 at 6:02:52 AM PDT by
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lol poor car
Jul 31st, 2010 at 7:35:54 PM PDT by
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eh, it didn't run, so no harm done.
Jul 31st, 2010 at 7:44:52 PM PDT by
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ill bid but all 2000 of my points are down on a item
Aug 1st, 2010 at 1:40:28 AM PDT by
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Dont'cha hate it when that happens?
Aug 1st, 2010 at 6:45:10 AM PDT by
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cool auction, very unique
Aug 2nd, 2010 at 11:01:48 PM PDT by
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i just have to say - awesome job! unplugging your kids like that is a really wonderful thing to do. and give the kids props on the slingshot, too.. hey! do they know you're selling it?!?!

:p
Aug 3rd, 2010 at 9:51:16 PM PDT by
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LOL, my daughter was quite put out when she noticed me taking pictures of it....but after explaining that I would be trading it for Christmas presents, she thought it was a good idea. They are now digging a big hole and building an underground clubhouse, so have moved on to bigger and better things. The clubhouse is about 5 feet deep, 12 feet by 10 feet across, and is reinforced by wood beams and a tarp roof. They had help from the 12 and 14 yr old neighbors. No adults.
Aug 4th, 2010 at 6:16:46 AM PDT by
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LOL
Aug 4th, 2010 at 7:25:36 PM PDT by
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Love it!
Aug 9th, 2010 at 2:06:11 AM PDT by
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As an ex preschool teacher, that misses it something terrible, and a kid at heart that remembers the long summers before computers, video games, cell phones and TV's in kids rooms I remember the collard green rubberband slingshots my cousins and I use to make to shoot the crab apples over the hedges at passers by and the kids across the street! Lol! Thank you for a major flash back to easier times..good times....for that you deserve a bid!
Aug 9th, 2010 at 7:16:45 AM PDT by
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this is so cute
Aug 9th, 2010 at 12:18:52 PM PDT by

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