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This is one of those things everyone runs into but nobody really knows how to deal with it. Cleaning up packing peanuts. Made worse when your small angelic looking child gets into them. I have to open packages on the sly because Peanut LOVES packing peanuts.

When her father came home today he brought in a package and happily told her it was for her (it wasn’t). Inside were some of my goodies and…(danger music here) packing peanuts. She shouted for joy grabbed up all the packing peanuts and proceeded to make soup out of them, use them for a landing pool for her dolls, rub her head in them to get them to stick to her hair and then finally take her tricycle and ride through them (yeah I let her ride her bike up and down the front hall in the house) to break them up good and tiny. So we have a mess. This is all on carpet.

Surfing the internet I found countless stories to use a balloon. That did not work for us.

We know that static is the problem so get a paper bag so they don’t bounce around on you like happened to me many moons ago when I had a huge pile to dispose of.

So what did we do? Tape. Packing tape wrapped around every member of the family’s hands and start patting. When the tape is full toss. Vacuuming would work a bit too but can clog your vacuum and fill those not so cheap bags fast. Won’t really work if you have bagless either because once you opened it…WHAM! Back they come.

I hope this helps someone.

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