The Scrunchie: It's BAAACCKK....

NOoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

My Eyes........................they're burning!!!!!!!!!

We're Dooooooooooooooooooooooooomed!!

Next Crimped Hair and Lace gloves will be back.

Excuse me while I go sob quietly in the corner!

whats the big deal. wear whatever makes you feel good. Why even pick sides? If you like it, wear it. If you don't like it, then don't worry about it.

Good...finally, I can get them out of hiding...besides, the 80's were my "Glory Days!!!!!!"

oh no!! what is happening?!? it's just too much. it hurts.

who knew that scrunchies could divide a nation?! lol, i personally haven't bought a scrunchie since my freshman year in college. i prefer ouchless bands by goodie. i have thick hair so i use the thicker ones, they hold my hair pretty well. i find nothing wrong with using a scrunchie to keep hair in place when working or washing our face. i don't even mind the very small ones in public. however, like many of you here, detest the big gauky ones. SO 80's!

Wow, None- with all that education... maybe you could have learned to be less rude! Without manual labor, and what you would most probably deem jobs that are beneath you, life as we know it would cease to function. There is nothing wrong with scrunchies OR manual labor. Scrunchies are functional, fast, and fun- whether it's for a day in the office, for labor-intensive projects, or just to lounge in the house!

I don't see what all the fuss is about. I love scrunchies. They are very convenient and they really don't look terrible. I've got more important things to spend my money on than hair care products so if I can throw up my hair and go, woo-hoo. If you don't like them don't use them

There is just no excuse. None.

My friends who work at the bank can fix their hair in the morning and work hard all day in a climate controlled enviornment and not muss their hair. I work out in the morning and work as a massage therapist and esthician in the afternoon. My hair has to accomadate body heat, steam, movement and bending and leaning. If I'm not pinned and ponied, I have hair in my face and eyesand all over my client. I wonder if they will bring back the bow?

None, you sound like a 'litest prick. My job entails "manual labor" and is not done at a desk but requires at least a BFA to do. So take your smack talkin' ignorant arse back to school, because not all "real jobs" are done sitting on your fat duff in front of a computer.

Wow, so much anger over such a small thing. Thank you, miss electrical engineer. I didn't know I would generate so much heat over "defining real work".
I failed to mention that I am the sole owner of a small chain of local New York bagel shops out west. Yup, I punch numbers in a computer, and I go to meetings, but I also roll up my sleeves every day and (with hair back in a scrunchie) make bagels at one of my shops.
And you know what? I didn't even go to college, and I managed to successfully open up and operate several shops in times of economic chaos.
And I owe it all to my scrunchie. F.

I am 54 and I have never stopped wearing them around the pool, to wash my face, to bed.... so I don't have the hair wrapped around my face and neck and also.....for....other reasons!

I use a neutral colored one at home to pull my hair back, they are much better on my hair than a pony tail holder or rubberband. There's nothing wrong with them while your at home!!

To the poster at 7:59. Have you ever had to do anything besides sit at your desk? What did you do to pay your way through school? or did your parents foot the bill? I too have an office job but don't think that I am anymore important than anyone else. How is it that an article about a scrunchie sends you into such an insulting rant to two women who were stated the obvious: that physical work takes its toll on your body/hair/etc? You must be pretty insecure. I guess I am just irritated with the fact that someone who is throwing stones at others for being uneducated ends up sounding like the total ignorant a#$!

OH DEAR LORD! This is awful! Scrunchies for home while washing your face or cleaning...sure, if that is what works for you. If you are a ballerina or gymnast, then sure if that is what works for you. But if you are going out of the house and don't plan to be competing in the Olympic games that day, please save yourself... it is near to impossible to look truly fashionable in a scrunchie. Same goes for most of the claw clips, banana clips, and that new infomercial ponytail contraption thingie. Ugh. Trust me, in 10 years your stomach will turn when you see yourself in a picture from 2009 wearing a scrunchie.

Also, I've never stopped wearing scrunchies. I used neutral colored ones that blended with my hair to keep it back while in uniform in the Army (the rule was it had to be unnoticed), and currently I wear a smallish black one daily. Ever since the military I don't like my hair in my face, but I hate how short hair looks on me. Pony tails forever.

Aw, poor None. I worked construction all my life. I'm 54 now, retired, and I still have the same figure I did in my 20s. That hard work is what our bodies crave, and keeps us from getting a big butt from sitting on it all day at a desk. You are missing so much in life by having such an ignorant outlook on manual labor. You'll do all that fake work, and the market will crash and you'll still have nothing, not even the knowledge of how to fix and repair your own appliances.

Hard working women rock. They can do anything and look good doing it.

Carrie Bradshaw made fun of them in SITS, and they seemed to disappear overnight, creating a scrunchie shortage that I knew eventually would lead to a scrunchie revival--they have their place, so let the scrunchie live on! Woo hoo!

Ugly then Ugly now....

Please PLEASE tell me this is an extra-early April's Fool's joke. I hate scrunchies.