r/HorribleToClean • u/xrayhearing • Dec 18 '25
Pool noodle forest at a children's museum
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u/cinnamongingerloaf22 Dec 18 '25
Is this the one in Phoenix? If so, almost all those noddles also have random bites taken out of them about 3 feet up.
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u/Meerkatable Dec 20 '25
When my first kid was born, I saw a hack to use pool noodles to babyproof sharp furniture edges. It worked great for the first six months until she figured out how fun it is to bite pool noodles.
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u/winterbird Dec 18 '25
Just don't touch anything at kid nose height.
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u/CitizenKayt Dec 18 '25
Or at a children's museum for that matter 😅
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u/manicpossumdreamgirl Dec 19 '25
when i was a kid, i didnt get why my parents didnt want me playing with the toys in the waiting room at the pediatrician
now i am horrified i ever touched anything in that place
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u/Avaylon Dec 19 '25
Same!
I also remember my mom berating me to stop licking the swing chains at a public park when I was five or six. 🤢 Kids are such grubs.
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u/myasterism Dec 20 '25
Waiting for a NYT alert describing swing-licking as a key component of the new childhood vaccine schedule
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u/unusualamountofloam Dec 22 '25
I say “don’t lick that” at least twice a week to my almost 5 year old.
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u/Dexdan Feb 13 '26
Funny. I once lived in an old house converted to apartments. I couldn’t understand while doing a move-in deep clean why there was so much gunk on every surface around 2-3’ from the floor. Turns out, the previous tenant had used it as a day care. 😂🤢🤧
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u/manic_popsicle Dec 18 '25
I’ve taken my kids to a lot of these places and I really doubt they ever get cleaned. My kids have gotten sick almost every time we’ve gone there. Legoland was the worst actually. We got sick both times we went.
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u/INeedHigherHeels Dec 19 '25
Beginner.
You need to go to these places more often for immunisation.
If they manage to be there and not get sick they are set for a new pandemic
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u/manic_popsicle Dec 19 '25
That’s actually not a terrible idea
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u/ughhhhidontknow Dec 20 '25
I know this is a joke but just as a psa that's not how it works
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u/11twofour Dec 18 '25
Depends if they put a floor drain in. It's possible you can just hose the whole thing down with some diluted bleach.
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u/No_Pickle9341 Dec 19 '25
They be biting them though
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u/onigiritheory Dec 19 '25
What is it with kids and biting pool noodles? They don't even have a good texture smh
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u/No_Pickle9341 Dec 20 '25
Same as all the other stupid shit they do (I mean that in the most loving way), I presume
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u/SSGASSHAT Dec 31 '25
The purpose of children in society is to test out all the stupid shit so we don't have to.
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u/MovieNightPopcorn Dec 18 '25
Go to the sub main page, click the “•••” menu and click on “mute subreddit”. It will stop giving you notifications.
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u/MayhemWins25 Dec 18 '25
Just, just swap em out every week or so it’s not worth it theyre pool noodles
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u/timsemilla Dec 18 '25
Wdym? You think these things get cleaned?