Wet sneakers and newspaper: A scientific experiment šŸ‘Ÿ

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It has been determined that the inserts in this particular pair of shoes are not removable.

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Yes! Or the average mom of a teenage runner ā€“ or the teenager themselves. It was mostly change out the first set of newspaper, maybe the second, then forget, then open the shoes wide (without unlacing because too lazy).

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Itā€™s not complicated; in fact, itā€™s elegant in its simplicity.

  1. Sterilize three identical glass jars. (Save up your Smuckers jam jars.)
  2. Wash your hands well with soap and water. Using clean tools, peel and cut up an apple into slices, as alike in size and shape as you can manage. (Precision isnā€™t critical here.) You need three slices.
  3. Sterilize one apple slice by washing it gently with soap and water. Put it in one of the jars.
  4. Give a second apple slice to a kid who has been doing normal kid stuff and hasnā€™t washed her hands in a while. Have her rub her unwashed hands all over the apple slice and put it in the second jar.
  5. Have the kid wash her hands well with soap and water. Then have her rub her clean hands all over the third apple slice and put it in the third jar.
  6. Cap and label all the jars.
  7. Let all the jars sit for several days until stuff starts to grow on the apple slices. Observe the results, comparing the amount of growth on each slice.

Not only is this a fun and easy experiment to run, it also makes a huge impression on kids who donā€™t always like to wash their hands before eating!

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Very cool, thank you

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This is insanely cool that youā€™ve done this :rofl::rofl:

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I did a nonscientific version of this when DS was running cross country It worked well for his drenched shoes and overnight with no changes. I really stuffed em full too.

Iā€™m curious about your more methodical version.

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Where did you find a newspaper in 2024?

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DH insists on keeping our dead-tree subscription to the NYT.

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The teacher did this with us in 6th grade. Really the only question in my mind was what sorts of interesting weird things were going to grow. There was one girl who had nothing grow which was hardly surprising - she didnā€™t play like the rest of us. :woman_facepalming:

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Oh, thatā€™s sad.

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I know. But she didnā€™t want to. She wore very nice dresses. Seemed very quiet. The rest of us were unruly. :upside_down_face:

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We get mailers made from essentially newspaper all the time. We have a cabinet full of it for crafts, etc.

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Since I often stay in DVC, I need to try this paper towels vs newspaper. On our last trip we waded through shin high water in AK. Inhad forgotten my newspapers but used the paper towels in our studio. Worked really well!

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We found paper towels worked well last week when DDā€™s sneakers got wet while we were on vacation and didnā€™t have any newspaper.

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Probably a serial killer :raccoon::raccoon::raccoon:

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Ok I will now start keeping some of the mailers and put them in the to be packed area. I had the same question as @QwertySC

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I was planning this for Phase II of this experiment. :rofl: I need to collect some coarse brown paper towels of the kind used in public restrooms. (Is that the kind you find in WDW restrooms?)

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It didnā€™t work when we tried it once, but we also didnā€™t change out the newspaper. I bet thatā€™s the game changer!
I do love my boot dryer. Canā€™t live without it with kids in the winter.

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Yeah we use those scratchy paper towels found in DVC units. They work quite well, as long as you change them out as soon as they get damp (but you should do that with newspaper too)

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Maybe Phase II can be cheap brown paper towels or the cheapest store brand paper towels you can find ā€“ I think thatā€™s whatā€™s in DVC or other timeshares.

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