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@Calli
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Plastic/wire tiesDaughters second birthday and just cleared some debris.
What really gets me mad is the number of little ties used to hold toys in packaging. It was only a cheap set of toys but must have had 30 plus of these ties. WHY 
Ah well plant ties now 
Off to sponge half set jelly off carpet 
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Jamanda
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Re: Plastic/wire ties | Calli wrote: | Daughters second birthday and just cleared some debris.
What really gets me mad is the number of little ties used to hold toys in packaging. It was only a cheap set of toys but must have had 30 plus of these ties. WHY
Ah well plant ties now
Off to sponge half set jelly off carpet |
Drives me mad too. Some of them even have screws fixing the toy to the box. Ridiculous
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pricey
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Dont quote me on it, but think it's so the toy can't be removed from the box, and stolen, more difficult to steal the whole box.
I think I read it somewhere.
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@Calli
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That makes some limited sense - except that the packaging would have cost about as much as cheap plastic toys
Our fault for letting other daughter buy them - about £5
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dougal
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Re: Plastic/wire ties | Calli wrote: | | Ah well plant ties now |
For anyone looking for plant ties that are more durable and softer than string...
I noted an interesting £1.20 something product in Wilkinson's.
Wire coated with smooth, spongy soft (green coloured) plastic... about as fat as a drinking straw, several (continuous) metres in the pack.
Fully realising that hand-spun locally-grown jute twine is a more sustainable option, I'm sure it'll solve someone's problem.
It did occur to me that it would be better than pipe-cleaner for kids doing frame-by-frame animations...
... or for training branches to grow in particular directions, or ...
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