mouldy bath toys!

8 replies

Pigleychez · 21/02/2011 13:37

Anyone have any miracle tips for cleaning rubber ducks and the such??
DD's ducks tend to go all mouldy inside and all black. When she squeezes them she gets a bath full of manky floating black bits.

My current method is squeezing up water in them, giving them a big shake then squeeze out, repeat till you either get bored or your arm aches- whichever comes first!

We ditched one lot of ducks/whales etc and bought a fresh lot. Tried buying tons of other bath toys but of course she only wants the blooming rubber ducks!

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headfairy · 21/02/2011 13:39

I've tried everything, including sucking up bleachy water in to them, giving them a massive squish/squirt and rinse them a dozen times or so. In the end I ditched the mouldy ones and resolved to only buy cheapo bath toys that can be replaced regularly.

Clarnico · 21/02/2011 13:39

cull the ducks
replace with ones that don't have a hole in

babyapplejack · 21/02/2011 13:47

bin

Makingchanges · 21/02/2011 13:55

I did a thread on this last week - In the end I got DD to choose some new ones (which she loved doing) and then (with gentle pursuasion) binned the old ones.

Schmaffy · 21/02/2011 17:34

Could they go in the dishwasher once a week? (Please note- never ever tried this but just a thought ...)

Catsmamma · 21/02/2011 17:36

chuck them out...buy a few replacements, then when they go manky chuck them out....eventually you will have no bath toys!

CokeFan · 21/02/2011 17:37

We have to chuck out manky ones too. Found a set we really liked and I glued up the holes in the bottom. Seems to have worked but they float upside down sometimes now.

headfairy · 21/02/2011 17:49

good tip cokefan.. I do put some bath toys in the dishwasher, but not those squeezy duck/toys etc, there's no way the dishwasher water will get inside to clean them out. No solution but to chuck them. Boats and other assorted bath toys go through the dishwasher when they get all slippery once a month.

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