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So tell me the best way to fill a large bean bag without covering my parlour with artificial snow?

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swanthingafteranother · 20/12/2012 22:35

I am novice to beanbag filling.

Three terrifying sacks of the little polysterene thingies are waiting to be poured into the bean bags. But how do I transfer it? No funnel is large enough.

Someone on previous thread mentioned using a Bag For Life and cutting hole in corner, then using funnel.

Maybe I should use the garden?

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peeriebear · 20/12/2012 22:38

I had to do this a couple of months ago. After weeks of skirting the issue I bit the bullet and did it with a plastic kitchen jug. I dropped a few hundred balls- it's pretty impossible not to- but keeping it simple (scoop and pour) meant there was less to go wrong!

travellingwilbury · 20/12/2012 22:40

I don't know but I love that you have a parlour .

Good luck with the bag thing .

ItsAllGoingToBeFine · 20/12/2012 22:42

I also am v impressed with the parlour.

Good luck!

uptheamp · 20/12/2012 22:43

do it in tescos car park

Purplemonster · 20/12/2012 22:44

...carefully...then vaccum up the inevitable mess afterwards.

loveinidleness · 20/12/2012 22:44

is parlour a euphemism? Wink

They are annoying little buggers because they're all static from rubbing up against each other... I did two bean bags a couple of months ago and after several false starts I found making a big paper cornet out of newspaper (several pages thick so it stands up) and pouring them in was the best (or least worst) option. Are yours in a bag? So you can cut off a corner and pour it in.

It's not a job I'm anxious to repeat though.

FivesGoldNorks · 20/12/2012 22:44

Do it over the bath with a jug

TiredofZombies · 20/12/2012 22:45

Have you opened the sacks yet? When I ordered some beanbag filling it came in a sock-type thing so you just stuff it all in and don't lose any. Of course, if yours hasn't, my post is useless to you. The jug thing sounds like a good plan. Under no circumstances do it in the garden. One gust of wind and it will be a white Christmas for your entire street.

FivesGoldNorks · 20/12/2012 22:46

Lol at Tesco car park

ShakySingsMerryXmasEveryone · 20/12/2012 22:48

Watering can! Take the spray thing off, pour beads into watering can and then into bean bag. Repeat many, many times Xmas Grin

MrsHoarder · 20/12/2012 22:48

Do it in the bedroom?

swanthingafteranother · 21/12/2012 12:55

Snow everywhere Grin

However, one large bean bag filled. DH says it looks absolutely hideous. I think that ds1 (12) will be THRILLED.

One more to go. Hope this one is smaller.

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