6. Beaded Friendship Bracelets

According to, “SinceIveBeenLovinU,” the seller of these pretty, beaded friendship bracelets, “The concept of these bracelets is my take on the ‘BEST FRIENDS’ necklaces, where 1/2 the heart says BEST and the other 1/2 of the heart says FRIENDS. Each of these braclets [sic] wouldnt [sic] make sense if you read them alone, but when you put them together, they do… which translates to ‘I don’t make sense without my best friend.’ You each wear 1/2, and put your wrists together to form a whole.” This is a very nice idea, though it perhaps fails a bit at the conceptual level — the words “Nirvana” and “Nevermind” actually make complete sense on their own, say if you’re a Buddhist or, alternatively, just apathetic. But this doesn’t make these particular bracelets something that every self-respecting Nirvana fan should not own. They could very easily be worn by just one person, one bracelet on each wrist, like Reverend Harry Powell’s tattoos in Night Of The Hunted, or, just as easily, Uncle Leo’s in “The Bookstore” episode from Seinfeld. When you think about it this way, friendship bracelets never seemed so fierce!