Best use for a child's arm floatie yet!

[flip-flop]

I was reading one of my travel magazines (I think the Real Simple special travel issue, but I am not positive) but I had to share one of their suggestions for getting the booze home.

Use an inflated children's arm float as a sleeve for the booze in your check baggage!

Now, that writer is one after my heart!

[waterguy]

Now when my luggage gets shearched they are going to wonder why I have 12 floaties

[flip-flop]

They are super cheap at walmart ... I am sure if the wineries or booze makers offered them they'd be 10x as much! I say stock up. When they ask where your 6 non-swimming children are say you sent them ahead with your wife!

[waterguy]

I don't have one of those either But if I'm going to tell fibs might as well make them big

[Teresa_Rae]

I've got another use:

I like to use a flotation belt when I snorkel so I can snorkel for a long time without getting tired.

Ski belts run around $30, so instead I use two child's arm floaties attached together! The set cost me around $3.

They're not the blow-up kind, they're foam and they have velcro straps...so I just attach them together and they make a great flotation belt. And you can't even tell that they're floaties.

[StJohnRuth]

Well, that explains it. I wondered why we'd been selling so many of those arm floatie things at St. John Kids....
-Ruth

[MrsCARolph]

Wow--great idea. Thanks for the tip!

[sea-nile]

I've got another use:

They're not the blow-up kind, they're foam and they have velcro straps...so I just attach them together and they make a great flotation belt. And you can't even tell that they're floaties.

Where did you get the non-blow up kind? Do you think they would work for a 12 year old skinny kid who does not float well because he has no fat on his body?

[waterguy]

I have some fat I can give him

[Teresa_Rae]

Sea-nile, I was actually on a trip to Boston a few years ago and got them at a place called Christmas Tree Shops...I'm sure that doesn't help though...

However, strangely enough, I just searched on ebay for "arm floats" and the exact ones I have just happen to be listed!

Here's the link:
http://cgi.ebay.com/Swim-School-Easy-Fi ... dZViewItem

If that link doesn't work, try searching for item #120112775536.

It says in the listing that she got them at KB Toys, so maybe you could find them there?

As for your son, I think they'd work perfectly...they are great for me...I attach them together and they fit great around my waist (~25") but I could get it a little bigger if I needed to.