Does Your Child Want 'Bunchems' For Christmas? You Might Want To Rethink Before You Buy

I was shopping around with my 5-year-old daughter, Chloe. She found a box of Bunchems and said 'This is all I want for Christmas!!" She continued on to say the usual stuff to convince mommy, daddy and whoever might have been listening how she would do all the chores for fifteen thousand seconds (yes seconds) and promised to be good until she died.

Yesterday, I noticed some comments cautioning people from buying these squishy lil spawns from H-E-DOUBLE HOCKEY STICKS.

Here are some costumer reviews from Amazon.com:

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

682 of 740 people found the following review helpful

A Toy Spawned From the Darkest Depths of Hell

By Ethan Benoit on September 6, 2015

Horrible, horrible, horrible toy for kids. I just spent the last TWO AND A HALF hours (absolutley, 100 percent not an exaggeration) attempting to remove 14 of these bastard balls out of my daughter's hair. Buy this toy for someone if you hate them or their child. They are the most incredible choking hazards on the planet. They bring pain and misery, tears, fighting, broken and ripped hair, and questions of one's sanity in handling life in general. I can't feel my arms now after attempting to pull this spawn from hell "toy" that matted itself into her hair like nothing ever witnessed before. The photo is her hair with conditioner coating the balls in what proved to be an almost fruitless effort to exract the evil. If you wish to proceed, good luck.

92 of 104 people found the following review helpful

How I removed them from my daughters hair!

By 12345678 on September 23, 2015

DO NOT BUY! They got stuck in my daughters hair!! There is a youtube video explaining how to remove them. IT DOES NOT WORK! We tried everything. Here is how I removed them. After trial and error this was the fastest and most painless way we found. I used spray leave in conditioner on the Bunchem and surrounding area of hair to make it wet, pull the hair down off the ball with a toothpick(or sharp small object) then when half of the ball is exposed, using a long nosed pliers I wiggled the ball free from her hair. I hope this helps! Good Luck

Here's the commercial advertising Bunchems:

Here's pictures of what happens when Bunchems are introduced to a child's hair:

My final decision...I will NOT be buying these for my daughter.

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