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Best use for a child's arm floatie yet!
Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 1:12 pm
by 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!
Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 1:14 pm
by waterguy
Now when my luggage gets shearched they are going to wonder why I have 12 floaties
Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 1:16 pm
by 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!
Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 1:17 pm
by waterguy
I don't have one of those either But if I'm going to tell fibs might as well make them big
Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 1:20 pm
by 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.
Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 6:46 pm
by StJohnRuth
Well, that explains it. I wondered why we'd been selling so many of those arm floatie things at St. John Kids....
-Ruth
Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 11:53 pm
by MrsCARolph
Wow--great idea. Thanks for the tip!
Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 1:35 pm
by sea-nile
Teresa_Rae wrote: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?
Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 1:46 pm
by waterguy
I have some fat I can give him
Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 2:19 pm
by 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.