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Top 3 go-to fidgets?

maxlinger60

Hi all. It recently came to my attention that I never have empty hands, and wanted to know if anybody else was the same. 

I'm a restless person and inevitably can be found toying with one of my many fidgets tucked into my work/school bag. Here are the top three.

1. Tangle —hated these for a decade before falling in love with the off-brand kind that last way longer before breaking. They're still agonizingly poor-quality for the amount of fidgeting I do, though.

2. stretchy rubber noodles. Like this:

 

They're great for stressed out hands and really satisfy the need to strangle anything vaguely string-like

3. my beloved chews. I have numerous, thanks to my penchant for chipping my own teeth and gnawing through my lip, nails, hair, shirts. I usually go for the softer chews from Ark Therapeutic, though those can be pretty expensive, but they last a long time if you rotate which ones you use. I always keep a necklace tucked under my shirt and a small, textured stylus shaped chew in my pocketbook. 

honorable mentions are: 

- Trixie the T-Rex named for my biology professor's habit of putting T-rexes in his slideshows for us to spot.

- the dirt-cheap hairties I attached with a key ring and now carry everywhere

- the various poor quality fidgets I bought online

Tell me yours.

Love,

Max

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  • One of these things. They don't seem to have an official name, terms used are Black Magic, 3 Rings, Magician, 8 Squares game.

    You can guess how it works, really. The panels need to be moved in such a way as to create a picture of 3 interlocking rings. But the 8 squares can be manipulated in different ways, so you need to figure out how to get them in position.

    As for me, it's a good fidget because you can fold, flap and flip to your heart's content. It's only when you look down and find you've solved it, your turn it over and that sides wrong! You can't get both sides to match together: only one or the other. So, it's an eternal battle.

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  • One of these things. They don't seem to have an official name, terms used are Black Magic, 3 Rings, Magician, 8 Squares game.

    You can guess how it works, really. The panels need to be moved in such a way as to create a picture of 3 interlocking rings. But the 8 squares can be manipulated in different ways, so you need to figure out how to get them in position.

    As for me, it's a good fidget because you can fold, flap and flip to your heart's content. It's only when you look down and find you've solved it, your turn it over and that sides wrong! You can't get both sides to match together: only one or the other. So, it's an eternal battle.

    SunglassesThumbsup

     

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