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re: What is your household’s Mardi Gras bead policy?
Posted on 2/22/26 at 10:25 am to white beans
Posted on 2/22/26 at 10:25 am to white beans
As a kid, we’d take the beads off the string and put them in a pie tin, or something similar, and bake them in the oven. They’d melt into cool shapes and were very colorful. I can still remember the smell of toxic fumes that were produced and the same oven would be used to make dinner that evening. Good times!!!
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Posted on 2/22/26 at 10:32 am to white beans
1st 3 years of going to MG parades with a young kid filled 2 large buckets of good beads. After that only "great throws" like spears were saved. Now when that kid's daughter visits out c,ome the bead buckets. She gets to take 10 home each time. At that rate we have enough for a great many visits.
Posted on 2/22/26 at 10:33 am to white beans
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All the rest in the trash next morning.
You really don't know any riders for donating?
Posted on 2/22/26 at 11:16 am to white beans
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This post was edited on 2/22/26 at 11:24 am
Posted on 2/22/26 at 1:58 pm to white beans
I save them for friends etc who ride
Posted on 2/22/26 at 2:12 pm to GRTiger
Let the kids make a complete mess of the house until the weekend before they go back to school (picked up today). Balls go outside for future games. Squeaky toys make it to the bin for pool/water table days. Anything else they didn’t play with gets stored for next year’s school parade.
Stuffed animals usually make it to their beds for a few weeks, up to 2 months, before it ends up tucked in the corner somewhere. Then it makes it to our Christmas giveaway pile
Stuffed animals usually make it to their beds for a few weeks, up to 2 months, before it ends up tucked in the corner somewhere. Then it makes it to our Christmas giveaway pile
Posted on 2/22/26 at 2:13 pm to white beans
Bridgehouse New Orleans will take any beads you don't want... 
Posted on 2/22/26 at 2:15 pm to hometownhero89
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Organize, rebundle, rethrow.
Anything to not pay the Kerns or the Chinese more.
I’ve always thought it would be a great fundraising project for a school or club, to have collection bins or drop off spots around town after Mardi Gras for people to leave all the beads they have caught.
Have your members or students clean, organize and bundle up the throws and sell them to parade riders for a steep discount off of new.
Perhaps someone already does this and I’m unaware.
This post was edited on 2/22/26 at 2:16 pm
Posted on 2/22/26 at 2:15 pm to white beans
We normally save them forever but last year I threw away three trash cans full to make room for newer inventory.
It was stuff from say 1990-2018 or so. Including Moon Pies.
Currently looking at a 6’ tall stack of large storage containers full plus a few odd bags full.
Oh. Took down the Mardi Gras tree yesterday that was dressed in spears, signature beds and throws. Tucks toilets, various footballs, and whatever.
It was stuff from say 1990-2018 or so. Including Moon Pies.
Currently looking at a 6’ tall stack of large storage containers full plus a few odd bags full.
Oh. Took down the Mardi Gras tree yesterday that was dressed in spears, signature beds and throws. Tucks toilets, various footballs, and whatever.
This post was edited on 2/22/26 at 7:07 pm
Posted on 2/22/26 at 4:51 pm to jmarto1
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but they are crazy to pay that price
Most went out of state. This was back when I lived in BR.
Posted on 2/22/26 at 5:09 pm to Bullfrog
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It was stuff from say 1990-2018 or so. Including Moon Pies
Was nothing wrong with those moon pies
Posted on 2/22/26 at 5:49 pm to white beans
I keep the glass beads and some cups and Rex ceramic throws. Everything else I recycle.
Posted on 2/22/26 at 11:53 pm to white beans
Special beads are kept. Everything else gets donated to ArcGNO for recycling and resale. Dropped off a large bag filled with beads, balls and footballs there last week.
My mother used to make Christmas ornaments from the “pearl” necklaces that were so prized at one time. Most were given as gifts, but I still have a few. They are really lovely.
Here is a link to the ArcGNO drop-off sites:
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My mother used to make Christmas ornaments from the “pearl” necklaces that were so prized at one time. Most were given as gifts, but I still have a few. They are really lovely.
Here is a link to the ArcGNO drop-off sites:
LINK
This post was edited on 2/23/26 at 1:15 am
Posted on 2/23/26 at 5:49 am to white beans
This was my kids first Mardi Gras. Going to take all the nice medallion beads and frame them in a shadow box for each of them
Posted on 2/23/26 at 5:57 am to white beans
File this under things I've never had to worry about.
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