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mummy_becks 
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Posted: 02 February 2008 at 10:28pm |
Does anyone know a safe way to clean bath toys??
The rubber ducks have yucky things inside them and now Josh is chewing on them I would like the clean.
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aimeejoy
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Posted: 02 February 2008 at 10:31pm |
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Yeah I know they get gross aye? Last time I did it I filled a bucket with hot water and put some bleach in, chucked toys in. Refilled it the next day and turned all the toys over (or you can just put something over the top so they dont float). Then rinsed them lots and lots. Probably not the safest method but it did the trick.
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Posted: 02 February 2008 at 10:32pm |
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You could put them in a hot cycle in the dishwasher. Might do the trick.
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Posted: 02 February 2008 at 10:34pm |
 SimSam wrote:
You could put them in a hot cycle in the dishwasher. Might do the trick. |
That would involve having a dish washer and I don't have one, but I could take them to in inlaws to try that.
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Posted: 02 February 2008 at 10:35pm |
That sounds like a brilliant idea! 
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Posted: 03 February 2008 at 8:54am |
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when we moved to NZ I had the same prob with a lot of our toys and NOTHING fixed them. janine suggested just getting multiples of the same toys from $2 so they could be chucked and replaced with ease. Now - it sounds so cheap but they love it - the main bath toys are old dishwashing bottles, and the scoops from the washing powder (and bath crayons that stain the bath - thanks mum)
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Posted: 03 February 2008 at 9:19am |
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For some reason I remember that topic you started Liz and thought about it last night. Must have been when I first started on here!
And yeah Han's fav bath toys are little plastic cups, spoons and empty bathwash bottles.
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Posted: 03 February 2008 at 9:22am |
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We have real cheap toys as well as the cool ones. Daniel loves playing with old formula scoops in the bath.
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Posted: 03 February 2008 at 10:34am |
I have the same problem with bath toys and end up chucking them out. Ahh old formula scoops! thats a great idea Kebakat. I've always wondered what I could do with them 
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Posted: 03 February 2008 at 11:09am |
I might have to start collecting my scoops now, might give them a wash in the dishwasher at the in laws as well.
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Posted: 03 February 2008 at 12:25pm |
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When we were at Toy Library they used to make you wash all the toys with a janola/water solution before you returned them so I just do that with the bath toys.
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Posted: 03 February 2008 at 12:32pm |
Oh no, your rubber ducks have bird flu like mine get! We've tried the bleach solution as well and found it doesn't work all that well, so we end up chucking bath toys out every few months. The only thing that seems to work is prevention -- squeeze all the water out of each toy after each bath, so they're not sitting there with stagnant water inside of them.
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Posted: 03 February 2008 at 5:08pm |
yep ours are all gross at them mo to but james would rather play with the soap containers then the rubber ducky
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Posted: 03 February 2008 at 7:33pm |
I put them in a bath with hot water and bleach and the little ones came up really well, the bigger ones are still in the bath soaking. I have filled them up with hot water and bleach and shaking them every hour to get rid of the "bird flu" stuff.
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