Because I am a mean, mean mother, I have never purchased a trampoline for my children. Because I am mean, did I mention?
Of course, now that they’re too old to think it’s the greatest thing in the world, the Sears Real Deal of the Day is a 12′ trampoline and enclosure for just $199—a full $150 off the regular retail price.
Now let’s all sit back and wait for someone to come tell their broken arm horror story. Someone always has one, when the topic of trampolines comes up, right?
we LOVE our trampoline and have had it for a long time. What’s funny is that adults often have more fun on it than the kids LOL
Even better we just enjoy our neighbor’s
So, my neighbor’s friend’s sister’s nephew was jumping on a trampoline and broke his leg and the bone was sticking out and the other kid jumping fell on it and lost an eye! And then the dog ran away!! It was so horrible the parents ended up getting a divorce!!!
But not really. I just wanted to give you your broken bone story.
It was the dog running away that upset me. Carry on. 😉
I didn’t /break/ anything but I sure /hurt/ something. Our trampoline didn’t have an enclosure thing, and my brother and I bounced at the same time. With the way we both landed, I was sent flying and landed on my tailbone on the outer rim of the trampoline. I never thought I’d be able to sit again (but I can! Hooray!). I was back on the trampoline (even at the same time as siblings and friends!) once the soreness went away, though. Trampolines are just too fun!
Sure do, my daughter is only 2 and we’ve already got 3 little friends with broken bones from trampoline incidents. We don’t want to continue the trend, thank you!! 🙂
I want this trampoline, mainly because I never got to have on when I was growing up. My dad is a physical therapist and said there was just too much chance of a spinal cord injury and he’d treated TOO many kids with SCI’s to allow us to have one. NOT that any of the kids that he treated had gotten their SCI’s from a trampoline, BUT…it made sense to him.
My funny story, though, is that the neighbor behind us had one, but we weren’t supposed to jump on it without an adult present. Well, one day my mom looks out the back window and sees my brother’s head intermittently bobbing up above the fence because he was jumping on it. WITHOUT AN ADULT. Ooooo, he got in TROUBLE!! But he didn’t get a broken bone.
Why do they bump it up to $229 when i put it in my cart with my zip code? That’s just not nice! We were just talking about getting one of these!
I have a couple of broken bone stories from when I was a kid (none of them my bones!), but all of them resulted from not following the rules. Our parents all chalked it up to life experience and learning not to be stupid. 😉
So I was perfectly willing to buy regardless of the bone-breaking horror stories (what that says about me as a mother I don’t know), I found out that most insurance carriers will drop your homeowners policy if you have a trampoline, regardless of a fence, signage, etc. We bought one Black Friday and it went back the next day. (Luckily, my kid didn’t know anything about the purchase yet.) Just an FYI…
We had one until a storm blew it up into a tree and mangled it. Our homeowners insurance was higher with it. And we have a broken bone story to boot. However the reason it has not been replaced is because my husband hated moving it around to mow 🙂
I’d never have a trampoline. Not because of broken bones – my daughter did that running at the pool, thank you very much – but because I’d want to jump on it. And I found out, the hard way when we rented a bounce house and I jumped in it – I’ve had a few too many babies to bounce and, um, stay dry.
TMI.
But, there you go.