‘And now that junk out of my house’

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If the amount of slime in your house is skyrocketing and The Big Slime Movies are nothing, it’s time for drastic measures.

Aleta (42): “Boris (7) had his birthday and had asked just about everyone for slime. It came into our house in all shapes and sizes; with glitter, without glitter, incredibly fluid, a lot more compact. And there were also people who had found a nice alternative in magnetic sand or clay.

In short: everything you don’t want in your home as a parent, we suddenly had in large quantities. I saw it with sorrow, but you don’t take your child’s gifts away, of course.

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slime mixer

In the weeks that followed, one slime/sand/clay drama after another piled up. I kept vacuuming. Boris went to mix things up. Or do something with it in our bathroom sink, which caused us to get quite clogged. A jar opened in bed. And he took it out and then back in, making the slime full of sand, twigs, and other debris.

“The last straw came when he managed to completely cover the dog with it”

The last straw for me came when he managed to completely cover the dog with it. ‘And now get that mess out of my house’, I shouted. Boris was in tears, so was I. What a mess. We picked something really cool together at the toy store and I put a lifetime ban on even the word slime.”

This article appears in Kek Mama 11-2022.

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