Whatever You Do - Do NOT Buy the Kinetic Sand
Unless you really like to vacuum, or hate your sofa. - your call.
Parents: consider this your PSA of the day. Learn from my mistakes.
A few months back the child and I were shopping for something for Mommy, so it must have been a Christmas present. Of course, if we go shopping together then it must be a given that the child get something too.
Yes, I know. I can’t say no to that pretty little face.
Anyway, the child walked out with a three pack of kinetic sand, slime and some weird feeling modeling putty. At first we thought that wasn’t that bad of a purchase and it kept her busy over a long winter weekend indoors.
Fast forward to tonight and the sand is still around. Kind of.
You see, by this time I am pretty sure my little scientist has combined the three different things into just one sandy/slimy mess, and I blame myself. I’m usually better a tossing this kind of stuff when nobody’s looking because we’re still at the age where she rarely asks where something went still, and that’s good for me but bad for those little toys you get from McDonald’s.
This slimy and sandy concoction was ignored for some time until tonight. After dinner, BW was downstairs knitting and the child was playing happily. As I am apt to do I laid down on the couch to rest my eyes.
Then I hear BW tell the child to not rub the concoction onto the couch. Sigh.
I get up, and there’s sand on the couch.
Let me tell you about our couch. It’s bright red and has a texture to it - kind of like burlap, but not itchy because having an itchy couch is another story for another day.
This texture absorbs sand like me on my birthday with a cake in front of me. It goes fast and it hits hard. I get the vacuum and start the cleanup.
I think I got most of it but it’s hard to tell becuase somehow in just 20 minutes the sand got everywhere. The kitchen table, the living room floor. This stuff was IN toys which I ended up washing because they’re part of her kitchen set and I’m not that bad that I throw out the good stuff. Just the crap gets tossed.
Needless to say, we have a new rule at our house: NO KINETIC SAND
Don’t say I didn’t warn you.
Keep vacuuming,
TH and Co.