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A Tale of Woe and Orbees: A Twitter Thread.
Once upon a time over two months ago, my 18 year old decided for some inexplicable reason to drop an entire canister of orbees into her bath water. It was not a small canister, it was this: https://www.amazon.com/UMIKU-Rainbow-Growing-Tactile-Sensory/dp/B075FRZ53W/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=magical+water+beads&qid=1585873533&s=toys-and-games&sr=1-1
Once upon a time over two months ago, my 18 year old decided for some inexplicable reason to drop an entire canister of orbees into her bath water. It was not a small canister, it was this: https://www.amazon.com/UMIKU-Rainbow-Growing-Tactile-Sensory/dp/B075FRZ53W/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=magical+water+beads&qid=1585873533&s=toys-and-games&sr=1-1
Fortunately, none of the orbees wound up in the plumbing, however, it left us with over 50,000 water-logged orbees needing to dry out. I mostly left this process to her until about a week ago when I decided it was time to get serious.
For over two months they had resided in a plastic bag with almost no air getting in, so obviously this plan was not working. A few times the bag got tipped and the orbees escaped. What a mess.
Last week, on a quiet evening at home I decided the time had come. I placed a drying mat on the counter and a couple of rubbermaid bin lids and covered them in soggy orbees. Unfortunately I did not think to take pictures.
Yesterday after finding out my cleaning service would no longer be offering residential services due to COVID19 I brought out the big guns. I placed a towel on her floor and covered it in wet orbees. Now I do have pictures.
This is the bag of orbees waiting for their turn on the drying towel.
And these are the orbees that have been drying on the counter for the past week. As you can clearly see, this is not going to be a speedy process.
And this is the container of dried out orbees. This is two months worth of progress.
To be continued.....
I was informed last night that this thread needs to be updated with current pictures, so here you go. Current situation of the towel drying orbees:
