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And now I’ve learned the much loved product I played with endlessly as a child was original wallpaper cleaner, and I am destroyed. That’s just a really cool repurposing, and fascinating to hear it was non-toxic from the start. I suddenly want to go sniff a can of it.
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Now I want to see if you can use white play-doh to clean flat painted walls. Sure, we don’t need to clean coal soot off the walls, but with a horde of children in the house, there are plenty of handprints on walls and stairwell handrails!
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As long as we discussing really cool repurposing:
“Pool noodles” started out as foam rods used in construction projects.
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I thought for sure it was going to be Silly Putty…remember pressing down on the Sunday comics and seeing them reproduced on the putty?
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Next time you are in the Target, go down the toy aisle with the Play-doh in it. Pick up a can and give it a sniff, you will be transported back to childhood for just a second.
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You can still see the gray ones at hardware stores, though they are usually split to make wrapping them around pipes easier.
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Play-Doh wargaming rules:
This used to be a common feature at Oz gaming conventions. Much of fun.
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Please let her have a middle name starting with an N.
(Have fun figuring that out, everyone not versed in German puns.)
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