Thread-on Type Charm Bracelets

[Bonneville]

Just what is the attraction for these things at the moment. They are soooo expensive - yet so common. I just dont get it! Am I missing something here?

Do you mean the trollbeads & Pandora ones ?

I think they are beautiful...sigh...hope DH's business takes off...

Are they common? Common as in all over the place or common as in dead common?
I rather like the troll beads. (Although yes they are pricey)

I mean that lots of people seem to be collecting them.

It's quite a useful teenage girl present I am finding - my neice was v pleased with the troll bead I sent her last year. (Just the one though!)

I think they are cheap and nasty.

I have an old fashioned charm bracelet of my mum's from the 60s .. I loved it when I was a kid so she gave it me on my dd's first birthday and now my dd loves it ... much nicer

Troll beads - not cheap! And not nasty - made of venetian glass and all that! They are modern day charm bracelets I suppose.

I haven't got troll beads myself, but am inheritor of large jangly charm bracelet, which while very interesting and historic, is incredibly noisy to wear!

sorry Katisha. I think they look cheap and nasty. Made all the worse by the fact that they are anything but cheap.

But agree, not as noisy as an inherited charm bracelet.

They are pretty enough but not really my thing. I much prefer the old fashioned ones. My aunt had one, worth a fortune that was beautiful but heavy.

DH and I bought one for DD's first Christmas (she was 4mo at the time) and we have added a charm to it every birthday, Christmas and 'significant event' like first day at school, first tooth etc. We'll continue to do so throughout her life. Hopefully she'll have something beautiful that means something when she is older. She is 6.5 now and loves it when we sit down and talk her through the story behind each charm

one of the ones on my mum's bracelet that I loved as a child is a beetle that opens up to reveal The Beatles. On the 'shell' side of the inside are the words "yeah Yeah Yeah"

Funnily enough it is also my 2.5yo daughter's fave - but she thinks that the four figures are The Wiggles!!!!

DD's favourite is the tiny cinderella carriage

I've been noticing adverts for these in magazines lately but didn't realise that they are so popular until I saw the threads on MN. I can see why they might be attractive to teenagers but I'm afraid I agree with those of you who think they look cheap, a bit tacky IMO but each to their own and all that.

Would I be right in thinking that these are a 'follow on' from the popularity of the Links of London sweetie charm bracelet which so many people seem to have? (me included although it's been missing since DD1 got her hands on it a year ago).

My mum bought me a traditional charm bracelet for my birthday last year, i love it so much, I also love the troll beads but cold never afford one, i think you either like chunky jewellery or you dont, it's a taste thing.