Twins Noah and Abigail Hoelzle, were playing in their Churchville, Pennsylvania, home recently when Noah dumped a container of Velcro-like Bunchems toys onto Abigail’s head. It created a gnarly nightmare that took nearly a full day to untangle.
The kids had just finished their day of virtual schooling and headed downstairs to play when Noah came running back upstairs to tell their mom, Lisa, that Abigail had something stuck in her hair.
“I think I had an out-of-body experience,” Lisa wrote in a now-viral Facebook post of the moment she saw Abigail’s Bunchem-filled hair. “She had about 150 of these things layered and matted in her hair,” Lisa wrote.
After some three hours of detangling, she’d only managed to remove 15 of them. A quick Google search suggested using conditioner and vegetable oil, but Lisa and her husband, Dan, found those only “made it worse and so messy.”
After countless tears (Lisa’s), apologies (Noah’s), consolations (from Abigail, who was “surprisingly amazing about it”), 20 total hours of Bunchems-removal and an hour of post-removal bathtub hair conditioning, Abigail’s hair was relatively back to normal.
Now, the mother is on a campaign to prevent others from repeating her nightmare.
“Spread the word,” she encouraged fellow parents. “Trash you Bunchems if you have them or if you love them [wear] a shower caps when playing.”
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