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Post by cakediva on Jun 8, 2016 1:34:47 GMT
1) it would appear heavy duty wall plugs are not enough to secure an Ikea shelf to the wall and hold multiple jars of sprinkles looking oh so pretty on my wall. Even though it has been secure for over a year, and nothing new was put on it recently.
2) A jar full of a rock solid mass of crushed candy cane (did you know crushed candy cane purchased in bulk at Christmas time becomes a rock solid chunk if left in a jar?) that falls 6 feet to the floor below turns back in to thousands of candy cane pieces and sticks to everything.
3) A jar of rainbow sprinkles, when smashed open, will also stick to the candy cane pieces, making sweeping up impossible.
4) The jar of silver dragees, however, stuck to nothing, and those suckers rolled EVERYWHERE. And proceeded to laugh at me as I tried to sweep them up, and rolled into even more corners far far away.
5) Crushed candy cane cannot be swept up easily, it must be scraped up with a bench scraper
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Post by ~KellyAnn~ on Jun 8, 2016 1:36:15 GMT
Don't cry over spilt candy!
Sorry you had to deal with that mess.
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Post by charlatan on Jun 8, 2016 1:36:58 GMT
Oh no!
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Post by GiantsFan on Jun 8, 2016 1:38:43 GMT
I'm sorry but your post literally made me giggle out loud. DH thinks it was something he said that was (not) funny. LOL!
And I am so sorry you have to clean up that mess. I can't even imagine.....
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Post by valincal on Jun 8, 2016 1:39:11 GMT
Ack!
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Post by quiltz on Jun 8, 2016 1:45:31 GMT
Oh I am so sorry that this happened to you.
Icky, sticky, very bad mess, and all the tiny shards of glass. (Guess how I know what it looks like.)
Wear thicker gloves so that you don't cut yourself, as a trip to the ER is not what you want to happen next.
( ( ( hugs ) ) )
edited to add: Brackets to hold the shelves underneath help to keep the shelf on the wall.
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Post by scrapngranny on Jun 8, 2016 1:48:57 GMT
That is one sweet mess. I've worked with crushed candy canes before, so I can feel your pain.
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Post by brandy327 on Jun 8, 2016 2:02:38 GMT
OMG, I've dealt with the spilled silver dragees before and you are SO right. Those things just keep moving around and around. I found those damned things under stuff for weeks! LOL
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Post by crazy4scraps on Jun 8, 2016 3:21:18 GMT
 That's a bummer! Once one of our dogs stole a big new bottle of Valentine sprinkles from the kitchen table and chewed the top off, spilling them all over the floor! It was a huge sticky mess! He did his best to "clean up" his transgression so we wouldn't notice, but he couldn't get all the sprinkles from the grout lines in the tile--and we noticed!  We were so glad it was a plastic bottle and not glass.
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Post by Linda on Jun 8, 2016 3:30:58 GMT
I'm sorry - what a mess!
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Post by tanya2 on Jun 8, 2016 4:20:12 GMT
wow that sucks! sorry you had to deal with that
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Post by refugeepea on Jun 8, 2016 4:59:50 GMT
I would use a shop vac to clean up that mess! How annoying!
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Post by anniefb on Jun 8, 2016 5:37:55 GMT
Ugh sorry you had to deal with that!
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Post by smokeynspike on Jun 8, 2016 6:05:01 GMT
Bummer! Sorry you had to clean that up!
Melissa
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Post by scrappert on Jun 8, 2016 12:31:50 GMT
Oh no!! But your post did make me laugh. So, that's a good thing, right?
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Post by deshacrafts on Jun 8, 2016 12:35:10 GMT
Oh yuck, what a mess!
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Post by KikiPea on Jun 8, 2016 12:56:28 GMT
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Post by grove420 on Jun 8, 2016 13:24:12 GMT
You are obviously a good sport to keep your sense of humor through this. And then to maintain your composure and remember to take a picture! Hope the clean-up didn't take too long.
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Post by lisa on Jun 8, 2016 13:30:02 GMT
Oh no, hope your day gets better!
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Post by STBC on Jun 8, 2016 13:32:31 GMT
Oh no!!!! I had one of my Ikea floating shelves fall down recently. It wasn't holding much weight. I heard the noise from another room and couldn't figure out what it was. I was lucky it wasn't the shelf with my milkglass. I cleared off that shelf just in case!
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Post by freebird on Jun 8, 2016 13:45:00 GMT
Always hit a stud. always.
Also: Shop vac.
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Post by mikklynn on Jun 8, 2016 15:05:29 GMT
Oh no! You'll be finding those silver dragees for years.
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Post by hop2 on Jun 8, 2016 16:09:07 GMT
Always hit a stud. always. Also: Shop vac. Yeah that We had an empty shelf fall off a wall because it wasn't in a stud. DH just had to have it 'match' the other shelf symmetrically where there wasn't a stud. And it lasted about 8 months DD had nothing on it but one foam photo board. |
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Post by my3freaks on Jun 8, 2016 16:50:41 GMT
UGH! Not how I'd want to start my day, but I'm glad no one was right there when it fell and got hurt! Just think, your day can only get better.  I might be the only one who saw this and thought, those aren't sprinkles, they're rainbow jimmies!!  (Maybe brandy327 or another NH pea might agree with me, LOL) |
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Post by joelise on Jun 8, 2016 16:58:28 GMT
Oh no what a mess! Hope you got it cleared up OK! But your post did make me  |
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Post by woodysbetty on Jun 8, 2016 17:01:14 GMT
Yikes....that sounds awful...
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Post by styxgirl on Jun 8, 2016 17:18:31 GMT
Uhoh!
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Post by sweetpeasmom on Jun 8, 2016 18:09:46 GMT
Talk about a candy crush  The description of the silver thingys remind me of little foam balls that are in stuffed animals. Those suckers stick to everything! |
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Post by azredhead on Jun 8, 2016 18:19:36 GMT
OY!! looks like fun! yup shop vac is your friend! It's always fun when it's the little stuff. At least yours looks pretty!.I did that only with flour. My canister was too big for the shelf in our pantry.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 8, 2016 18:21:20 GMT
oh no.
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That's a bummer!
We were so glad it was a plastic bottle and not glass.
