{"product_id":"ebook-still-squishy-how-to-keep-a-set-of-small-squishies-soft-clean-and-in-one-piece-long-after-the-first-week","title":"Ebook: Still Squishy — How to keep a set of small squishies soft, clean and in one piece long after the first week","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThere is a timetable to how these toys fail, and once you have seen it you can't unsee it. Something splits in the first week. Something goes tacky by the third. Something comes back from under the sofa grey and nobody picks it up again. Read enough reviews of squishies — any brand, any shop — and hundreds of strangers describe the same object dying the same way.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eAlmost none of that is bad luck. It is three materials with three specific failure points, and a pair of hands finding those points immediately, because finding them is interesting.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eStill Squishy\u003c\/em\u003e is what to do about it. It sorts a mixed set by material rather than by shape, so the advice works on eight pieces or on one, then gives you the one sentence to say at handover, the wash that fixes a tacky piece, the cornstarch reset that keeps it fixed, and the ten-minute order of operations for the day one of the filled pieces splits.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 dir=\"ltr\"\u003eWhat's inside\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWeek One\u003c\/strong\u003e — the three things that actually destroy these toys, and how to tell foam, rubber and filled pieces apart by touch\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe Five Minutes Before You Hand It Over\u003c\/strong\u003e — the pre-gift check that prevents most of the first week's problems\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe House Rules\u003c\/strong\u003e — seven scripts, word for word, including the one to say when a piece splits so the next one gets brought to you instead of hidden\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eSqueeze, Don't Stretch\u003c\/strong\u003e — where the moulding seam is, why it goes there, and how to show a child without turning it into a warning\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWhen They Go Sticky\u003c\/strong\u003e — the wash, and the cornstarch reset that stops it coming back\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDust, Lint and Hair\u003c\/strong\u003e — cleaning by material, and the four things that ruin a piece instantly\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eStiff, Cracked, Slow to Rise\u003c\/strong\u003e — what's recoverable, what's finished, and why the microwave and freezer ideas are wrong\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWhen One Splits\u003c\/strong\u003e — the ten-minute response, in order: skin, surfaces, fabric, and why glue never works\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWhere They Live\u003c\/strong\u003e — four storage arrangements, and the three conditions any of them has to meet\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe Rotation\u003c\/strong\u003e — the half-in-half-out method that keeps a set interesting for months instead of days\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eOut of the House\u003c\/strong\u003e — cars, classrooms, planes, and the piece you accept in advance that you will lose\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe Keeping Card\u003c\/strong\u003e — the whole book on one page, to print and put inside the lid\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch3 dir=\"ltr\"\u003eWho it's for\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe adult holding the box: a parent, a grandparent, a teacher with a classroom tin, or somebody who bought a set as a present and would like it to still exist at Christmas. It works on any mixed set of small squeeze toys, not just ours — the advice sorts by material, so it applies to whatever is in the drawer already.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Caelum Online","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46571716083898,"sku":null,"price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0766\/7636\/6522\/files\/Caelum-Online_Still-Squishy_cover.png?v=1788768987","url":"https:\/\/caelumonline.com\/products\/ebook-still-squishy-how-to-keep-a-set-of-small-squishies-soft-clean-and-in-one-piece-long-after-the-first-week","provider":"Caelum Online","version":"1.0","type":"link"}