Originally Posted by Mr_TooDogs
No mention of the fashionable paracord bracelets yet

I don't have one

I don't have one either.
To me, if your cordage has to be unraveled
to be used, it might as well be at home in a
drawer. Any cord or rope should be ready for
immediate use. Years ago in the real BSA
at one of those jamboree things, somebody
was teaching that you could lash together
this or that, and was showing how to unravel
your scout web belt to get string. I asked as
a curious kid " after we tear up our belt, what
do we do for a belt ?" .
I never subscribed to tearing up a functional
piece of gear to make some bushcrafty
thing with