Well go to the foot of my stairs, I cannot believe I'm raising a thread in GH....but if you have daughters pls tell me what in gods name you do..

[HuwEdwards]

with all the hair bobbles, scrunchies, slides, clips etc?

I have 2 DDs, both of whom have their hair tied back for school.

I buy a hundredweight of the feckin things every term it seems, but bugger me, they've always disappeared 2 weeks in. Then I find them all over the place, down the backs of sofas, under beds, in pockets, in the washing round the dog's ears .

Help me. Where do you store them?

I put them in a hanging thing with pockets which is on her door. I also keep her tights and socks in it. I still find them everywhere though especially the car.

I put dd's on a cubby hole shelf ( you know the type, with different sections in it) in her room. Up high out of her reach.

Whenever I find one round the house I put it back.

I got a container with a handle on it from claire's accessories and also use a carrier bag for the excess and I have only 1 DD

hairbrush handle and pot/ bowl on each one's dressingtable/ chest of drawers

I have 3 DDs...

I used to keep DD's on one of those upright pole kitchen roll holders - this type

WE have tons of hair stuff. They are all supposed to live in a box in DD's room on her shelves. However I always fine them lying around and we always only ever seemto find odd bobbles/slides and never a matching pair.

Lose the will to live or cut their hair into short bobs.

The clips I had on a ribbon hanging from her dressing table mirror

Most of them are on the back of the toilet cistern where they come off for hair washing/bathing. Unorthodox.... but it seems to work.

My Mum has a stash around her house as well in a plastic box.

I keep saying when I was a little girl we had nasty elastic bands and proper hair bobbles were a luxury - it's the same look I get when I reminicise about 3 tv channels and no remote controls .

HuwEdwards I feel your pain...I also have a crawling baby so I think she eats some of them which makes it worse!

They all get dumped on the shelf at the top of the stairs when we find them.

I am going to buy some sort of tub/basket as they are defeating me now tbh.

Yes princessmel is right - keep it out of their reach. Otherwise more get wasted/used in dollies' hair. or she tips them all over the bed and leaves them there. Drives me crackers.

Great thread.

... and don't believe in making Mr Claire's accessories any richer than he is.. Primark ADULT section good for cheap, utilitarian hair stuff

www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/30077248

she has this in her room. The bobbles go in a bowl in the top middle shelf

A matching pair, Hula? Now that would be impressive. A matching pair of socks would be a good day in the frogpond, never mind hair elastics.

Dd2 is still wearing your dd's outgrown tights, btw!

Oh her Pegasus head wears some as well .

basket in the wardrobe, basket in the bathroom, basket by the mirror where the hairdryer goes. Most of ours end up in one of the baskets. I have 2 DDs and I use the odd band too. Personally I find yelling like a fishwife solves most problems

Sleepycat, I've told you not to call me Bob

lol at Brussels baby eating them!

Yes I forgot the thing that really bugs me, finding all the bleeding bobbles impossibly tangled in dolls hair.

Sally we had 2 of those bloody decapitated heads horses....

When dd first had her Pegasus head, I thought I was going to wake up one day and find it in my bed. Probably read too many Mafia books.... .

Oh Barbie has had many a hair cut in my house too.

DD is supposed to keep bobbles in a box in her bedroom but we find them all over the place.

You need a hair booble plate.
Just don't drop it down the back of the loo...

I have a small box which is sitting on the sideboard in the livingroom with all the new bobbles and clasps that dd2 got for christmas in it. There are also some that she got a few months ago that I did a rake around the house for and came up with loads and popped them in this box.

I find our bobbles everywhere as we all have long hair, even dh! So we have loads of bobbles lying around, although you can never find one when you want one. But that is now changing because of my little box.

They are magnetic . A largeish bare, boring disc magnet will keep loads safe discreetly round the side of the fridge (round the front is gross!).

boxes/bowls strategically located where bobbles are likely to be removed (kitchen, bedroom, bathroom).

Back seat of car is still DDs receptacle of choice though, of course

cut the childs hair short and make the hair accessories into a junk modelling sculpture, or laminate them so they can't get hold of the damned things!!