You’ve just arrived back from an amazing weekend of dancing, drinking and laughing at that crazy festival you’d always wanted to go to. You met some amazingly brilliant people, discovered new bands and even quite enjoyed camping. Every time you look down at that brightly coloured bit of fabric on your wrist it makes you smile because it reminds you of one of the best weekends of your life! But then reality hits, “I’ve got to take this band off for work!!!” and then you scream, cry, drop to your knees, throw back your head and shout to the heavens WHHHYYYYY???…….ok maybe not, but at some point you gotta get that Festival wristband off one way or another.
Some people are quite happy to cut it off, throw it away and move on, but if you want to know how to get your festival wristband off WITHOUT CUTTING, here’s how…..
Excuse the slightly muddy hand, it was a very muddy Glastonbury Festival
Step One
Find a plastic bag, any one will do as long as it’s deep enough to put your hand into and so it comes 3 or 4 centimetres above the line of your wristband. A thin bag with handles, like this supermarket one (other supermarkets are available) is ideal.
Step Two
Place your hand with the festival wristband on inside the bag.
Step Three
Tuck the ends of the bag underneath the wristband until the whole wristband is on top of the bag and no longer touching your bare skin.
Step Four
Pull the bag tight so that your fingers are touching the bottom of the bag.
Step Five
Pull the top of the plastic bag down to where your fingers are and start pulling, the tighter your wristband is, the harder you will need to pull. The band should then roll off over your hand.
Step Six
Marvel at your fulling intact wristband
I’d love to know if any of you try this method and how you got on? Also, what do you do with your festival wristbands once they’re off? make some sort of keep sake? display them? squeeze them back on? let me know in the comments.
Happy festivaling x
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My son has just used this method, and although it hurt a little. The pain was quickly replaced with amazement, when the band came off intact.
Uhm well I tried this and it was super tight to begin with, no matter what i did it would not come off no matter how hard we pulled and it hurt like hell
if you’ve got it on super tight in the first place then yeah it’s going to be difficult to pull off. Best not to push the toggle up too far or if it’s being put on for you ask to have a finger width slack left for comfort.
Hi Eleanor
Yes, I was amazed the first time i tried it too. So simple, yet effective!
thanks for commenting.
Rachel x
It works. This is an awesome trick!
awesome! so glad it worked for you – I had no doubt really 😉
Didn’t work. Caused extreme pain. You idiots.
I think you must have yours on extreeeemly tight Finley, in which case you should just cut it off. Next time you get a wrist band on make sure you can still get a finger underneath the band or it’s waaaaay too tight, then it will come off easily with the plastic bag trick
Easier to remove fingers first by biting them off.
I just severed my little finger using this method
I can now not do push ups properly
I love how you’re the idiots when the dude attempted a procedure that clearly wasn’t going to work and caused severe pain to himself :’)
It hurt like crazy pain was un real I advice people not to try this also my band is not tight at a all I can fit 2 fingers under it and I still tried tor trick and after extreme pain I gave up
Well after 10 minutes me and a friend were pulling at it and tugging it using your trick and it finally worked but afterwards I was in a little pain
I just open it bk up with a screwdriver an hammer!!!
Ah takes me back to my festival going days, great tip!
Thanks Becky 🙂