Helium filled balloons - delivered?

[ohwaitthatwasme]

Can anyone recommend a site for inflated helium birthday balloons? Looking to have 4/5 delivered.

I used to buy helium balloons but haven't since I realised how wasteful they were. I now use reusable foil balloons with no helium and they still look great.

@Goslowlysideways

Children don't need helium balloons. They like them for about 10 minutes then they just hang there until you get fed up and Chuck them away. Why not buy a banner you can use again. They do nice material ones. I can't stand this waste it's so depressing.

He isn't even a child. It's an 18th birthday!

We already have birthday banners that I made many years ago that we reuse every time someone has a birthday.

On the subject of need though, this was never something I suggested as being 'needed'. It was a fleeting idea I had whilst talking to DH about which cake and what to buy for the tea party.

@ohwaitthatwasme oh I didn't say that you did. My very first comment was that people have twisted your words. My point was that that was the impression you were still giving (me, anyway) from your posts. If you said otherwise, my apologies.

I used " send them balloons " on the weekend, as on ordered . Mums 70th in a couple of days and thanks to Covid I can't visit . Large numbers and an option of doughnuts cake or chocolate as a surprise. I'll update if they are good or not

I have indeed learnt something as I didn't know helium was finite. As another poster said, it's surprising the government doesn't take action and ban helium balloons.

While your post about researching up to date information was on the vague side (and possibly intentionally so..), I think you didn't deserve any of the personal comments that ensued.

It's great to be environmentally aware, provide a positive role model to others and provide guidance but not so good to berate people if they make a different decision.

Hope your son enjoys his 18th, it's harder to celebrate properly in lockdown.

OP - hope your daughter has a lovely birthday

While I’m here, does anyone know a good upholsterer? I’m getting my sofa recovered and thought white rhino skin might do the job.....

I really hope helium balloons will be banned and their are campaigns to have them banned. Obviously the manufacturers will spend a lot of money vociferously arguing their case and will have expensive PR firms to lobby government, like tobacco companies.

I don't understand why you need to wait for the government to take action before you stop doing something that is demonstrably bad for the planet. This government is terrible on green issues. We really need to take a level of a personal responsibility and not rely on the government to tell us what to do.

I don't understand why you need to wait for the government to take action before you stop doing something that is demonstrably bad for the planet.

I don't know if you are generalising here or asking me directly but to answer you anyway, I don't. In terms of the government involvement I said I agreed with the poster asking why the government allowed it to be sold and said that awareness should be raised. I definitely didn't say I would continue to buy helium until the government bans it.

We really need to take a level of a personal responsibility and not rely on the government to tell us what to do.

Here is the thing, I do my bit where I can and none of that is because the government told me to/ not too. However, given the medical use and shortage I do think that the government should at the very least be raising awareness of the matter. Somebody commented upthread that they know about this issue and it have seen it discussed on Facebook, I genuinely didn't know. People need to know.

Another important point is when we run out of helium we're not going to be able to talk like Donald Duck at parties

Yes people need to know and now you do.

Thank you for this public service announcement

I agree that people need to know. That’s why those of us who do know tell others. But apparently doing so constitutes a pile on/WW3. Can’t win really! 🤷🏼‍♀️

I agree that people need to know. That’s why those of us who do know tell others. But apparently doing so constitutes a pile on/WW3. Can’t win really! 🤷🏼‍♀️

It was a pile on. Go and read the amount of posts challenging me after I reiterated several times I was reading up on it. Not a single person believed that when I said I was reading it I actually meant just that. The majority just piled on to ask why I thought I knew better/had different Information despite me saying more than once I was not disagreeing and I was reading the same readily available information using google. You say 'can't win' but actually I took everything on board straight away last night, so I would consider that a win.

I don’t agree it was a pile on. It wasn’t clear from your posts that you had changed your mind which is why posters continued to tell you about the problems with helium balloons. I’m really glad you changed your mind; that’s definitely a win. For you, for us and for the planet! 💚

It absolutely was a pile on, you don’t need to keep on going on and on at someone until they say the words “I agree with you”. That’s exactly what a pile on is, multiple people trying to bully the OP in to submission when she’d already said she was looking in to it.
The sensible question would have been to ask OP if her her own research agreed the point, not to assume it didn’t and to keep banging the drum.
OP - have a fabulous celebration.

I don’t agree it was a pile on. It wasn’t clear from your posts that you had changed your mind which is why posters continued to tell you about the problems with helium balloons.

Actually, very few people told me of the problems. The majority were just here to 'pile on'

The idea that I needed to tell someone I had 'changed my mind' about something that wasn't even on my radar when I posted is quite strange. Telling people I was reading up on it should have been enough.

An interesting point has been risen though. Many posters were so quick to judge and assume my stance here and blame the fact I didn't state my feelings immediately, but those same posters absolutely believed my view to be the negative. I wonder why that is?

@Martinisarebetterdirty

It absolutely was a pile on, you don’t need to keep on going on and on at someone until they say the words “I agree with you”. That’s exactly what a pile on is, multiple people trying to bully the OP in to submission when she’d already said she was looking in to it. The sensible question would have been to ask OP if her her own research agreed the point, not to assume it didn’t and to keep banging the drum. OP - have a fabulous celebration.

Possibly because by not saying that, the OP implied she'd found a more recent article to contradict. It would have been perfectly easy to avoid

I'm not saying this about the OP but it's beyond doubt that some people enjoy a good internet squabble.

Possibly because by not saying that, the OP implied she'd found a more recent article to contradict.

I said many times that I was reading same information anyone else could by using google. How that turns into an implication that I disagree with it is beyond me.

The date thing? I said this last night, surely more up to date information is a good thing? Especially when we are talking about limited sources? I can't even understand why anyone took issue with this.

You however; you absolutely did just arrive for the pile on last night.

you don’t need to keep on going on and on at someone until they say the words “I agree with you”

It wasn’t clear that the OP was in agreement and had changed her mind. In fact, there was an inference that the opposite was true. OP later clarified this.

The idea that I needed to tell someone I had 'changed my mind'...is quite strange

You don’t need to tell anyone anything, but if you post asking where to buy helium balloons and then don’t at any point say you’ve changed your mind and are no longer interested in buying them, people will continue to post to tell you about the problems.

@waterlego

you don’t need to keep on going on and on at someone until they say the words “I agree with you”

It wasn’t clear that the OP was in agreement and had changed her mind. In fact, there was an inference that the opposite was true. OP later clarified this.

Oh, come on. My very first response..

You may be pleased to know I have had a quick google and looked for much more up to date information to base this quandary on

acknowledging I was reading more up to date, ie: relevant, information and I was going to make a choice based on said information.

My first response. I took on board an issue and I decided it was something I needed to read about before making g a decision that 5 minutes before I didn't even know was a decision to make.

So no, I didn't imply anything. I then continued to reiterate that I was reading up on the subject. At no pin t did I say I didn't agree or that I had found differing Information. In fact, I said several times over I had not and was not reading anything different to that which is found in a quick google search.

My first response was nippy and sarcastic, I will admit, but I was in the moment of excitement which is fucking rare these days and I felt like someone had pissed on my chips.

@waterlego

The idea that I needed to tell someone I had 'changed my mind'...is quite strange

You don’t need to tell anyone anything, but if you post asking where to buy helium balloons and then don’t at any point say you’ve changed your mind and are no longer interested in buying them, people will continue to post to tell you about the problems.

People didn't post and continue to tell me the problems. That information however, was welcome. People posted challenging me to provide links to something I never even suggested I had found.

I didn’t say you implied it- I said that it was inferred- there’s a difference! I don’t think you meant to imply anything but perhaps because your initial responses were- as you say- a little nippy and sarcastic (defensive?), many of us took that to mean you weren’t interested in engaging with the issues.

Like I said, I’m glad you changed your mind and I hope the celebrations are fun.

I'm not saying this about the OP but it's beyond doubt that some people enjoy a good internet squabble.

I really don't. I just wanted to get some balloons and now I don't. I don't enjoy this type of thing at all but it is comes with the territory here. If people are making incorrect judgements about me and my posts then I will sit here all day and defend myself. Enjoy it? No. Not at all. It's one of my weak points actually.

I didn’t say you implied it- I said that it was inferred- there’s a difference!

Sorry. I didn't know.

Sorry. I didn't know.

No need to be sorry for that.

Online discussions can and do go a bit weird when people misunderstand each other. I’m sorry the thread has made you feel bad.
I hope you have sunshine wherever you are today. 💐 ☀️