Tuesday, December 29, 2020

Getting hardened fluid from a stress ball off my dresser

Monday was a productive day. I decided to reorganize what's on my dresser. I thought that it would take me an hour. Nope.

I found out that my blue M&M's stress ball had exploded. The clear fluid in the squishy stress ball must have oozed out days ago. It was solid on my dresser, between items.

I learned that the fluid is corn syrup. It's a question of submerging items in warm to hot water to melt the residue away, such as on my hand lotion. Naturally, I can't submerge my entire dresser in water. Instead, I poured some hot-warmish water on the surface and started to chip away at the mess.

Later on today, I'll finish the work. I ran out of elbow grease!

2 comments:

  1. thank goodness it wasn't anything more disastrous than corn syrup. I'm sure it was tedious, but at least it didn't damage (i hope) anything too permanently.

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    1. Who knew that these squishy stress balls have corn syrup in them?! It took a while to get the hardened corn syrup dissolved, but my dresser looks like new again. Yay!

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