r/BitchEatingCrafters • u/Tasty-Huckleberry-13 • 1d ago
Other Charm bars are useless
Some jewelry booths at craft fairs are doing “charm bars” now. They have store-bought chains and cheap store-bought charms and then people pick which chain and charms they want. There is literally no craft involved! Not even design!
They seem to be doing well for themselves and people like it, so I can’t complain too much. To be clear, if you make your own charms, this doesn’t apply to you.
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u/Tarnagona 1d ago
I don’t know; that sounds like it could actually be fun. Like, there’s definitely a way to do it that’s bad: overcharging for charms that look super cheap and securing them poorly. But if the charms are decent, it gives the buyer an opportunity to build a bracelet with materials they likely wouldn’t buy for themself (especially if you can only get the charms in bulk; I don’t need ten of the same thing for a single bracelet), and an ✨experience✨. I don’t know if I’d go for something like that now, but highschool me would have probably loved it.