Help - Beanbag mess!

[iluvdiscruises]

Last night I needed to wash the cover of my son's beanbag (it came from either Lillian Vernon or Company Kids...can't remember which). Anyway, the beanbag inside was a MESS!! White stuff was everywhere...I needed to vacuum! Should I just put it back into the now-clean cover? Or, should I replace? It almost looks like it's disintegrating somehow...just white everywhere!

Thanks!

 

[pezheadmeg]

Was it loose when you took the cover off? Or is it somehow contained? I'm thinking if it's contained you should be okay.

And thanks for the laugh, I have the mental picture of little white styrofome pellets creating snow in a living room.

 

[brekin67]

If you know of an Occupational Therapist near you, they may want it.
I work with people who have disabilities. The OT's are always making tactile items from bean bag pellets.

 

[Dizneydaz]

If you can reuse it I would. I made DD10 a beanbag a few years back and the beans cost a lot, even with using a coupon at Joanne's I wanted to replenish them a few months back but I can no longer find the beans. My Joannes only his micro beads.

When I filled her bag I did it in my bathtub since those pesky little pellets would go everywhere and were full of static-they stuck to everything ( I found Staticguard helped with this)

 

[iluvdiscruises]

Was it loose when you took the cover off? Or is it somehow contained? I'm thinking if it's contained you should be okay.

And thanks for the laugh, I have the mental picture of little white styrofome pellets creating snow in a living room.

If you know of an Occupational Therapist near you, they may want it.
I work with people who have disabilities. The OT's are always making tactile items from bean bag pellets.

If you can reuse it I would. I made DD10 a beanbag a few years back and the beans cost a lot, even with using a coupon at Joanne's I wanted to replenish them a few months back but I can no longer find the beans. My Joannes only his micro beads.

When I filled her bag I did it in my bathtub since those pesky little pellets would go everywhere and were full of static-they stuck to everything ( I found Staticguard helped with this)

UPDATE: It's definitely from Lillian Vernon...purchased in 2005...and maybe I am not describing the problem correctly (but am glad I am making someone laugh...I wasn't!!! It's one solid piece (not little beans) so I guess the covering over the beans is what's falling apart...I guess the insert has it's own "cover" so to speak. Now, out of curiousity, I checked my daughter's...purchased in 2007 from Company Kids...hers is beautiful inside...a nice cotton inner cover! I am thinking I will shove the "mess" back into my son's until it's a bit flatter...then will try to reorder a refill from Company Kids...they are basically the same size bean bag cover from what I can tell.

 

[tmccullough]

We had the same thing happen a year ago and we replaced what was gone with packing peanuts! So far, they've worked great and we were able to make it a much fuller beanbag.