Polystyrene Balls

Good morning jess do you have a local market? Ours sell huge bags of balls approx enough to fill an average bean bag could not tell exactly the amount but dont think they were that expensive. Our local upholstery shop also sell them but I would think they would be more expensive.. Or buy a couple of cheap bean bags from ebay and use the filling.

Ah - market is great idea, thanks glass .

Could you use the balls that people use for packing. We get bags full of them in every delivery we get and they drive us mad. Come to think of it I'll have a go at making a bean bag with them and let you know.

I think they are the exact same balls nananel . But not expecting any deliveries.

JessM yes the market is where I would suggest (great minds glass) have you thought of the superstores stock rooms ask the managers if you can have what their stock arrives in they would be glad to get rid I'm sure.

Well, silver ones from Marelli and now polystyrene ones from you, Jess! Whatever next?

When we first got married, I had to make bean bags for us to sit on as we couldn't afford furniture. In those days (early 70s) you could buy polystyrene granules that you had to boil so they would expand around 10x - then dry in a great big gauze sock on the line. I had to borrow one of the huge pans from the hospital kitchen- we found beads all over the house for years to come.

And of course stitched into ribbed brown corduroy - them were the days

I've just found this thread. I thought it was about Christmas decorations and hadn't read it. Boiling the granules in a big pan from the hospital kitchen, granjura ? I can imagine the wee balls floating about in the soup the next day
My MiL used to boil FiL's pants in a big pan on the cooker, but that's another story,,,

Good grief! What did you boil exactly?

I didn't boil them, JessM, but my MiL regularly did used to boil old T's underwear on top of the stove. She wanted them to look sparkling white when she put them on the clothes line.....something that was very important in those days!
One of the nicest things to say about any housewife was, "Aye, she hings oot a braw washing!".

I boiled my husband's horrible, horrible handkerchiefs....in the 60s.

I used to boil nappies. Best to draw a veil over that stage of my life.

LOL, I borrowed the huge boiling pan from the hospital doctor's mess kitchen - to use at home - hence finding said polystyrene balls around the house for years!

When those beanbags gave up the ghost, I kept the beads to use with potting compost for growing seedlings, to mix with our clay soil in the borders and the raised beds, instead of vermicullite - worked wonders

My mother used to boild my dad's hankies in a pan,*Alie*. I used to boil nappies too, Jess. ! I used to have a large zinc tub, that I put on the gas. Happy, happy days.......

BOIL, not boild, I mean!

You could use Cheesy Wotsits, JessM - there's not a lot to choose between them and polystyrene balls

Boiling nappies in a bucket on the gas ,did any one for get the bucket was hot and burn your fingers ,ouch

North Staff hospital it was ... happy days.

As we now pay for waste by weight - nappy services are becoming quite popular here. Provide, collect, wash and return. Mind you, those new shaped terry/cotton nappies are a doddle.

Ooops sorry, I digress.

granjura don't we all? Digress, I mean. One of the great joys of GN, I think. Mostly.

Terry nappies looked lovely, blowing on the clothes line, didn't they?

Oh yes, if you got them out and it wasn't raining! At one stage I had two babies in nappies and it was hell, even with my twin tub washing machine. I would NOT like to go back there.

I had two in nappies, 20 months between them. We soaked them in nappisan until the bucket was full, then boiled them in the washing machine.

Most of the early photographs of my children playing in the garden also have pictures of the nappies on the washing line.

Perhaps for another thread, but disposable nappies are an ecological disaster, from the very beginning of production to the very end in landfill sites.

With modern washing machines, and modern shaped terry nappies used with a liner - it's a doddle, honest.

A line full of brilliant white nappies always gave me a sense of achievement.... now I have to make do with towels and sheets.