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I've always loved to pop bubble wrap. For some reason, it is so satisfying. Occasionally I've bought a whole roll just to pop. But I have to wait until DH is out of range since it drives him crazy. I guess it would be annoying to the person listening and not participating.
I was reading an article on ASRM and it made me think of bubble-popping. But it doesn't seem like the same thing.
This article explains it, suggesting it alleviates fidgeting. But I'm not a fidgeter. I just like to pop!
It doesn't do anything to me either way (like I don't enjoy it in particular but it doesn't bother me if someone else does it). And I am a fidgeter; I have a ton of nervous energy that people mistake for them startling me. I love picking scabs. That feels satisfying to me. To each their own I suppose.
Pop pop pop yes. Used to love popping the mini bubbles by grabbing and twisting and when I was little kid, My dad would save that type and bring it home. I would go in the basement and he would have piece of plywood I could lay it on and either jump up and down on them or whack them with a rubber mallet for maximum effect.
The new super size plastic pillow bubbles are a whole different tact. If we get something at work and the person fills up the recycle bin with them I go Norman Bates on them (when no one else is around - LOL, lest my co workers get the wrong idea ). I dislike it very much when people fill up the recycle bin without deflating the plastic air pillow type packaging. Besides popping them in the work place would be rude.
Tangential topic.
Did anyone else ever do the create your own paper pops by taking pages from old telephone books and folding first twice and making small corner tear. Then opening back up and doing the tri fold once and then tri fold again with one 'sleeve' into the other to create a blow up (into the hole you made) and pop paper?
I think this was a one of those 70s things akin to collecting the old style pop can tabs and making long connecting chains for fun. I think it was an elementary school age fad. It worked real well with that thin telephone paper and certain newsprint paper. I think one summer I drove my siblings crazy doing it until the novelty wore off a few weeks later.
I enjoy popping bubble wrap, but I can resist and most of the time, I do. I have more important things to fidget with, bubble wrap is not even on the list lol..
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Originally Posted by reneeh63
I absolutely hate popping the big ones they use for shipping now - if you don't pop them they take up your entire trash. I need to find a faster way to do it because it's just plain aggravating!
But no, I never liked it, even the smaller ones - which I rarely see any more.
I've resorted to using scissors on those big ones, no pop sounds there.
oh yeah! Fun fun fun. I was more into popping bubble wrap when my kids were little and the bubble wrap was different. Now, not so much. To me, the big ones from Amazon aren't as much fun.
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). I dislike it very much when people fill up the recycle bin without deflating the plastic air pillow type packaging. Besides popping them in the work place would be rude. 
