Monday, January 28, is Bubble Wrap Appreciation Day. Bubble wrap is a great packing material for keeping breakables whole, but, really, who can think about bubble wrap and not think about popping it?

So I started to wonder, why do people love to pop bubble wrap? I researched and found theories that bubble wrap’s allure comes from:

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Who can resist a length of unpopped Bubble Wrap?
\u00a9 Janine Boylan<\/p><\/div>\n

It’s Fun to Burst My Bubble (Wrap)<\/span><\/h2>\n
Monday, January 28, is Bubble Wrap Appreciation Day<\/strong>. Bubble wrap is a great packing material for keeping breakables whole, but, really, who can think about bubble wrap and not think about popping it?<\/p>\n
So I started to wonder, why do people love to pop bubble wrap? I researched and found theories\u00a0that bubble wrap’s allure comes from: <\/p>\n
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the sense of power people feel when they smash the bubbles flat<\/li>\n
the satisfying, exploding sound of each pop<\/li>\n
the stress-relief from the monotonous activity<\/li>\n
the ancestral instincts of an\u00a0active, but repetitive activity\u00a0<\/a>that triggers memories of the grooming and insect-squishing behavior of their ape ancestors.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
I wasn’t convinced.<\/p>\n
So, for the sake of science, I did my own lab work and started popping the rectangle of bubble wrap that I had secretly stashed away just for this story.<\/p>\n
Pop, pop, pop, pop . . . Before long, I had satisfyingly popped half the sheet. It was fun.<\/p>\n
Oh, I see!<\/strong> It’s just fun. My simple life lesson was sometimes there’s no need for an explanation. Just enjoy it because it’s fun!<\/p>\n
\u00a0Bubble Wrap on the Wall<\/h4>\n
This product, the Bubble Calendar, looks very fun.<\/p>\n
This wall calendar comes close to bubble wrap’s ancestral roots. Bubble wrap was first created by accident in\u00a01957 by Marc Chavannes and Al\u00a0Fielding, who were trying to make a plastic wallpaper with a paper backing.<\/p>\n
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A bubble to pop every day!
\u00a9 Alex Kotlik photography<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n
Can you imagine knowing that every single day for an entire year you had a bubble just waiting for you to squish it? \u00a0The only challenge is that I’d have to stop after one pop, or I’d be ahead of time.<\/p>\n
Bubble Wrap on the Street<\/h4>\n
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Squares of bubble wrap, an offering of anti-stress
\u00a9 artist: Fra.Biancoshock and photographer: Myst-R<\/p><\/div>\n
Italian street artist\u00a0 Fra.Biancoshock<\/a>\u00a0had an idea to share the fun. He offered different size sheets of\u00a0the magical plastic to people in Milan waiting for the bus. The sheets were sized according to the estimated wait time. Participants grabbed the sheets and popped, popped, popped away.<\/p>\n
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People can’t stop popping!
\u00a9 artist: Fra.Biancoshock and photographer: Myst-R<\/p><\/div>\n
Bubble Wrap in Video<\/h4>\n
There are numerous YouTube videos that show people squashing the bubbles, ranging from factory workers who smash meters of bubble wrap in a hydraulic press to cartoon characters singing about the stuff.<\/p>\n
The team who created this Bubble Wrap Hip-Hop-Pop took their fun quite seriously.<\/p>\n
<\/iframe><\/p>\nIf the video does not display, watch it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=77dx5rlVP70\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h4>Bubble Wrap on Your Screen<\/h4>\nAnd then there’s the virtual bubble popping you can do with a number of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fast-pack.com\/popgame\/popgame.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">online games<\/a>. \u00a0I think the real stuff is more fun, but this will do in a pinch (or, when you can’t pinch actual Bubble Wrap).<\/p>\nHowever you decide to celebrate Bubble Wrap Appreciation Day, while remember the life lesson—have fun! And when you are through, check out these great ways to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.recyclethis.co.uk\/20070112\/how-can-i-reuse-or-recycle-popped-bubble-wrap\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reuse<\/a> popped bubble wrap.<\/p>\n<a href=\"#comment\">Comment<\/a>\u00a0on this post below, or inspire insight with your own\u00a0OIC Moment<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oh-i-see.com\/blog\/dare-to-share-2\/\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":4395,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[108,202],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ideas-creative","category-lessons-life"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oh-i-see.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oh-i-see.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oh-i-see.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oh-i-see.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oh-i-see.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4392"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.oh-i-see.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40561,"href":"https:\/\/www.oh-i-see.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4392\/revisions\/40561"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oh-i-see.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oh-i-see.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oh-i-see.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oh-i-see.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}

It’s Fun to Burst My Bubble (Wrap)

Bubble Wrap on the Street<\/h4>\nSquares of bubble wrap, an offering of anti-stress\u00a9 artist: Fra.Biancoshock and photographer: Myst-R<\/p><\/div>\n