01-30-2017, 08:27 AM
So! $8 plus shipping on Amazon ( https://www.amazon.com/dp/B017J7JURK ) got me way more of these absorbent beads than even I know what to do with, and three bucks at the local grocery store got me a big pack of punch balloons. My experience:
It's difficult figuring out how many of the beads to funnel into one of the balloons. Probably takes some trial and error, or an amount of math that I don't really feel like doing. I tried two different amounts to see what the difference would be ... one was kinda sloshy and jiggly with some extra water in it, while the other was packed pretty tight and the skin of the balloon was pulled taut over a very nubbly surface. Made me think of a dragon egg, but I think that's mostly because it was a green balloon. They both felt pleasantly massive, though!
The balloons wore out after a few days (or at least, the sloshy one was starting to leak through a few pinholes), but I transferred the beads to a double-layered garbage bag for the time being. Tucked into a wrestling singlet under a pair of sweats cinched tight at the waist, and it actually makes a good beer belly simulator. A bit too jiggly to feel like a pregnancy, but just the right amount of bounce for thirty pounds of imaginary flab, and it just ... feels inexplicably right resting in my lap.
Here's hoping any of that made sense and can help you decide whichever way you want!
It's difficult figuring out how many of the beads to funnel into one of the balloons. Probably takes some trial and error, or an amount of math that I don't really feel like doing. I tried two different amounts to see what the difference would be ... one was kinda sloshy and jiggly with some extra water in it, while the other was packed pretty tight and the skin of the balloon was pulled taut over a very nubbly surface. Made me think of a dragon egg, but I think that's mostly because it was a green balloon. They both felt pleasantly massive, though!
The balloons wore out after a few days (or at least, the sloshy one was starting to leak through a few pinholes), but I transferred the beads to a double-layered garbage bag for the time being. Tucked into a wrestling singlet under a pair of sweats cinched tight at the waist, and it actually makes a good beer belly simulator. A bit too jiggly to feel like a pregnancy, but just the right amount of bounce for thirty pounds of imaginary flab, and it just ... feels inexplicably right resting in my lap.
Here's hoping any of that made sense and can help you decide whichever way you want!
