Don't Try This at Home

DD was shopping in Meijer when she discovered one of those fill-it-yourself "beanbag" cubes on the clearance rack. So in she comes with her cube around (11 p.m.) and a bag of "beans" (which actually looked like miniature marshmallows). We read and followed the directions on the package and a lot of good it did -- what a mess. Those "beans" stuck to everything! I'm still finding them all over the house.

We did, finally, get the cube stuffed. But the styrofoam marshmallow carnage hadn't finished its sport with us. Nope -- not by a long shot.

We needed a ShopVac, but the only one available was in the garage full of wood shavings and I'd had enough trouble with Styrofoam, I didn't need splinter-inducing material added to the mix.

The solution: Mist everything (including us) with water to take the static out...Voila! We had it cleaned up in about ten minutes. Dryer sheets might have worked too, but we didn't have any.

DD suggested we try it outside next time. I can just see those "marshmallows" floating all over the neighborhood...hundreds and hundreds, stuck on people, vehicles, homes, floating on the lake, sticking to the ducks and geese. And oh the letters we'd get from the Homeowner's Association.

Since a picture's worth a thousand words: