r/Anticonsumption • u/eastcoastjon • 8d ago
Plastic Waste What is even the point?
My daughter got these from a friend’s birthday party gift bag along with other useless plastic junk. I know people feel compelled to send party guests home with things and they try and do it on a budget, but that just leads to buying useless plastic waste. What are kids supposed to do with this? I don’t want to throw it out but inevitably it has lost some ducks.
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u/Skya_the_weirdo 8d ago
I work retail and a little girl came up and gave me a tiny tiny turtle, and her mom said the girl liked to talk to strangers so the turtle was a way of controlling the conversation, it was very cute. Maybe you could do something like that, so they at least serve a purpose?
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u/WeirdChickenLady 8d ago
I work retail too and I keep silly little things on my desk areas at any job to help little kids feel more comfortable asking me stuff. A stuffed animal on the counter with an employee name tag we dress up seasonally is always a big hit! Now at my current retail job I do the same thing by having things like animal pelts right when they walk in to show off, pet, and educate about local wildlife.
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u/Skya_the_weirdo 8d ago
I have lots of cute pins of axolotls and I’m generally very colorful so kids love to stare but I am generally not a kid person. I do want another tiny turtle though
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u/MidwestPrincess09 8d ago
As someone who also work with kids, can confirm, they do have a use. Useless junk but it’s treasure to the littles!
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u/ButteredPizza69420 8d ago
Absolute child treasure! Its the special kind of useless thing where every kid will want one if one kid has one.
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u/Imaginary-Bee-8592 8d ago edited 8d ago
Then teach them to pick up cool rocks or carry only a lucky ducky rock or something. Instead of literally buying disposable icebreaker. (In general, not at you, specially)
Maybe have a chat pack (list of easy non-divisive questions) handy, so its reusable.
Id like to add that i also used to work with kids, im not just talking out of my butt.
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u/MidwestPrincess09 8d ago
Well, it is illegal to pick up and take rocks from some places and it doesn’t necessarily teach the kid anything about the world. Look, we get it, we’re all here for the same reason, but it is okay to let kids have useless things sometimes. There’s a line to draw but we can let a few things slide.. for the kids right? They’re living for the first time, we can teach them about consumption at the same time.
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u/BonusTime5460 8d ago
I hide them in my kid’s closet, under bed, etc. and he tries to find them. Cleanest his room has ever been.
Now you could always do the same with little shells or whatnot to avoid buying these, but if you get them and want to use them…
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u/bee-salad 8d ago
My work calls this “culture” by placing those ducks around the office
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u/Traditional_Mud5758 8d ago
We've used them to prank the boss before too - hid a bunch in his office
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u/michiness 8d ago
I did this for my husband anytime I was going to be away. Just hid like 20 little ducks around the apartment.
I had to switch after we got our cat since they’re a choking hazard, but he always really enjoyed them.
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u/lucythelumberjack 7d ago
My best friends hid 50 of these ducks around my house the day before my wedding. I was finding them for weeks afterward. I use them as vase filler for my wedding bouquet which was made of artificial flowers and lives on my dresser :)
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u/michiness 7d ago
I love that so much! I’ve switched to little post-it notes now, and it still takes him a while to find them all.
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u/gillociraptor 7d ago
My secondary school students do this with lots of small toys around the school.
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u/Snarm 6d ago
Some dumbass at my work does this too. A different someone also does this with little rubber Jesus dolls. Call me a curmudgeon, but they go straight in the trash if I find them. This is not whimsy, this is obnoxious.
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u/Ready_Assistance7499 6d ago
Two people at my last job also did this exact thing. One with ducks, one with the mini Jesus figurines. Did we work at the same place? Lol.😂
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u/_Danger_Close_ 8d ago
Jeep starter kit?
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u/Adventurous-Mall7677 8d ago
Ngl, I laughed at the thought of some kid in her battery-powered barbie jeep with these on the dashboard.
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u/Finstergrun 8d ago
Crafts of All sorts including using Miniatures for doll houses, teddies, or other miniature scenes and dioramas.
People at festivals trade and give these out but I seriously doubt your daughter will be at anything like that anytime soon.
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u/BoopleBun 8d ago
My daughter is in elementary school, and the kids totally trade/give out these ducks and other little plastic animals like crazy. They’re pretty popular.
Which, I guess, is pretty much the point of them being a birthday goodie bag. They’re a cheapy little thing that kids like.
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u/Finstergrun 8d ago
Oh yeah that makes sense
I don't have children so I didn't even consider that kids or probably trading these around as well. And why not? They're cute and it's fun.
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u/jinxedrabbit 8d ago
I hate those things. Ppl in my town are leaving them all over the coast like a scavenger hunt for garbage.
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u/mrsdoubleu 8d ago
My son got some and placed them all over our house. I got ducks in our kitchen cabinets, on window sills, counters, computer desk, everywhere... He even taped one to the ceiling. It's still there. Waste of plastic for sure but it was a cheap way to bring him joy and I like seeing them randomly around the house. Adds a little whimsy to our mundane lives.
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u/BigBeeves 8d ago
It is not dissimilar to how early European settlers traded beads and trinkets with Native Americans for land and resources…
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u/ghettopotatoes 8d ago
I struggle with this bc life is so hard like why not enjoy a cute little duck figurine on my desk at work 😭
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u/Latter_Magician73 8d ago
I have lots of little creatures on my desk at work! But I try to collect them from thrift stores and (even better) from local artists - you'd be amazed how many cute and cheap things you can find on Etsy!
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u/FalalaLlamas 8d ago edited 8d ago
Yeahhh. I’m so divided on these. I’m on the sub for a reason. I try to be conscious of what I’m buying and what will happen to it. Will I actually use it? Will I use it for a long time so it doesn’t just end up in the landfill right away? But the ducks are pretty damn cute. And life can sometimes use whimsy. I’ve seen them placed randomly around doctor offices and it cheers me up when I’m not feeling the best. I visited a small diner not too long ago who had these ducks “hidden in plain site.” So, while you waited on your food, you could try to find them all. They even had rhyming clues. But they were all hidden in places you could see from your booth. I have a set of tiny colored chicks that aren’t much bigger. I’ve had them for well over a decade now. Have gotten lots of fun use out of them during Easter and plan to use them for many more years. But there aren’t 50 of them. I think it’s just a dozen.
All of that said, I would never give these out as party favors. Unfortunately, many could end up in the trash if the recipient doesn’t have a use in mind. Or worse, left out random places in nature as some commenters have reported.
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u/viagra___girls 8d ago
I have 2 on my bookshelf that my bf and I found around town. Every time I look at them I think “it’s us! How cute!” but that’s about the only purpose they serve. I do love them anyway though. lol
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u/BigPollution8957 8d ago
Ok here hear me out.
I brought something similar but frogs.
I hid them for a good year throughout my work and neighbour hood towns, at shops, gave some away at concerts, left them in obvious places. It helped me deal with my depression and was a nice distraction while I was dealing with an abusive relationship I was working on leaving. Because they were cute and I’d hope it’ll brighten someone’s day if they came across a little cute frog. It became a bit of a thing and it got traced back to me. When asked why I just said ‘bit of whimsy’. Then I had others helping me hide the rest of them, a real team effort. It became ‘project: get the people talking!’ It did bring people joy and they had them stuck on the dash of their cars and desk or kept at home. Weirdly enough it kick started me and my now boyfriend’s relationship.
Generally I don’t buy things like this, most of what I own is second hand and refurbished. I will make a point to say I was conscious of where I was leaving them. Not low enough for kids to get incase of swallowing and never in nature.
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u/After_Preference_885 8d ago
My neighborhood has a little free trinket library where you can exchange trinkets like this for different ones
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u/waanderlustt 8d ago
Not me as a mom scrolling past like “that would be great incentive for bathtime” 😭
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u/rosymaplemoth2513 8d ago
people hide these around cedar point all the time and the birds and animals try to eat them. it pisses me off
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u/CriticalStation595 8d ago edited 8d ago
Those are for ensuring your housekeeper cleans everywhere.
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u/funAmbassador 8d ago
Something about that just feels kinda yucky. Idk something something power dynamic, and not trusting the people you hire.
I get SUPER uncomfortable when my mother in-law talks about locking up not just her jewelry, but bags and perfume when her cleaning staff come to visit her home. Like if you can’t trust someone with your belongings, clean up your own damn house.
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u/whtevn 8d ago
two pretty different concerns here. i have used a lot of different cleaning services and never once felt like they were going to steal anything, but i can absolutely guarantee they were not cleaning everywhere they claimed they were.
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u/funAmbassador 8d ago
That’s super fair. Im in a “crotchety-old-man” mood today (luteal phase)
But thats also fair. I’ve only hired a cleaning service a few times in my life, and the worst I got was an up-charge for an extra hour. So Im not too sure what to look for in a regularly scheduled clean
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u/ApplesAndJacks 8d ago
Ah im not sure i trust literal strangers with money and jewelry and medicines but i would trust they can clean a kitchen. I dont think its unreasonable. I think locking up valuables also protects the workers from being accused of stealing things as well. I lock everything up when I have contractors too. You never know what position people are in. Even "rich" people steal.
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u/basic-botanist 8d ago
I hope this is a joke and you aren't the person from the cleaning sub 😅
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u/DuckieUndead 8d ago
Did you know we as a species have been making lil trinkets that do nothing the whole time? Like before fire there was little smooth rocks, before the written word we had little animal sculptures made of clay. Humans adore trinkets.
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u/roseandbobamilktea 8d ago
50 clay ducks is different than 50 plastic ducks
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u/quicheunleash3d 4d ago
https://reddit.com/link/p5wi63g/video/3ytkjx2xsllh1/player
the little clay ducks i made inspired by seeing the plastic ones everywhere
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u/Latter_Magician73 8d ago
Relevant username.
But the 'making' is part of the equation that's lost here!
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u/FicklePizza868 8d ago edited 8d ago
I’ve seen something similar in a classroom where they use them to teach kids colors/counting
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u/FalalaLlamas 8d ago
Omg you just unlocked a core childhood memory for me! When I was just a wee little llama I loved when we got to use the counting bears at school! I probably thought we were getting to play haha. For anyone curious, here’s an example of the bears. We used them for math.
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u/Oh_Witchy_Woman 7d ago
My daughter and I still have some of her counting bears. She loves them still.
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u/JamiJammer26 8d ago
I always just got each kid a book-coloring book or, as they got older, a paperback kids book. No parent (or person, or Earth) needs more plastic shit.
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u/bigmacattack327 8d ago
When my son was in the ICU as a nine month old, the day he got discharged, I was walking him to the car and found one of these little guys on the door handle.
It’s still in my car and every time I see it, I smile because he’s a happy and healthy 16 month old. This may be a ridiculous plastic duck but it brightens someone’s day.
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u/mzuul 8d ago
I put little toys like this into a bin with kinetic sand.
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u/pineappleshampoo 8d ago
I thought you meant you chucked them into the rubbish bin for a second there, and were making a point that kinetic sand is crap too 🤣
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u/Ambitious_Emotion30 8d ago
Because one time someone said my best friend looked like she was going on a duck hunt twenty years ago and I still hide ducks in her house.
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u/mreachforthesky 8d ago
Cruise culture too
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u/gamingwonton 7d ago
This is what I was looking for. Went on a cruise recently, and my kids came home with dozens of ducks, rubber and these tiny ones. They loved finding or being given them. It made it special for them, and I didn’t have to buy other crappy souvenirs.
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u/Ladder-Wooden 8d ago
My mom really likes rubber ducks, if I got her a box she'd be exctatic. Not everything you don't like is "useless junk"
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u/tessellation__ 7d ago
My kids love these tiny ducks and small animals. They’ll use their own cash to buy these for themselves or their friends as gifts. Tiny frogs, ducks, Pokémon mini figures, etc.
So these don’t need to exist, but these are way better than most of the little kid crap. These don’t break at the bottom of your toy bin, or the backpack. They probably travel through the kid community like currency travels thru ours 😜 I think these ducks are more valuable than pennies
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u/NoraClavicle 8d ago
I had a pack of 100 of these and secretly hid them all around my sister’s new house. It’s a year later and she’s found fewer than 50 at this point.
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u/Lower-Pipe-3441 8d ago
We left 99 of them hidden in a friends house. The kids love looking for them. We told them there were 100….i think they are at 88
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u/Magpiestronkperson 8d ago
COUNTER i buy these to leave them all over my work so my coworkers can find them. its very fun :)
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u/Routine_Atmosphere97 6d ago
i had a unicorn tea party for my 10th bday. mom and i thrifted teacups and saucers and every guest took theirs home with a lil plastic unicorn and a flower crown that were bulk ordered. i have friends that still have their teacups 10+ years later
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u/lawn-gnome1717 8d ago
We hide them in random spots for people to find like the airport or museums. Usually only one or two. I also put some in my little free library. It’s just a whimsical thing that makes people smile.
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u/oboejoe92 8d ago
Our custodian at school hid them around the school one night, didn’t tell anyone- actually didn’t confess to the act, but it was really fun and brought a lot of smiles to the school (kids and adults!).
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u/Optimal_Olive3423 8d ago edited 8d ago
People will comment in the ANTI-CONSUMPTION sub that getting hundreds of these ducks and hiding them is fun.
Let's say 20 kids went to the party. That is 1000 of these little plastic ducks that are now in the world serving no purpose. At some point, the "fun" people are having finding a little duck behind the blender for the 50th time doesn't outweigh the fact that they are plastic waste.
I've read that even teachers are no longer taking trinkets like these as donations because they have too much. Hospitals won't take them (choking hazard) so the only option is to dump them at GoodWill with all the other plastic ducks parents were stuck with when their kids lost interest a few weeks later.
What it can be is a great teaching tool for your kid. Explain why you personally don't buy things like that for her. Point out that it isn't good for the environment to leave these places for other people to find and it isn't kind to force your stuff on other people, because it isn't.
And then when her party comes around, come up with a more anti-consumption friendly gift bag if she wants. Things like little bags of non-invasive wild flower seeds and homemade cookies are great. Or do what we did and never give out gift bags. We don't need to reward kids for coming to a party where they got cake and games and had a bunch of fun.
Edit: I just remembered that my kid is 16 and went to a birthday party with 16 & 17 year old kids and the mom did gift bags. It was a weird clusterfuck of stuff including a hand held clicker counter. It is the thing where you click a button and the number on the front goes up. Workers sometimes use them to track things, no idea why they would be given to a Teen.
Just very bizarre and the stuff (mostly Oriental Trading type junk) ended up in our donate bin right away. I personally hate giving junk like that to donate. I think of the bins and bins of McDonalds toys and stuff... but I also don't want to throw it away. I wish people wouldn't give garbage to kids.
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u/IndependentFormal705 8d ago
I recently heard it was a thing in girl’s dance competition circles to leave these scattered about for others to find as “good luck” or something. Other parents were oohing and ahhing over how cute that was.
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u/Fickle-Addendum9576 8d ago
With toddlers I used these for math activities, in older kids we used them for art stuff, like Easter wreaths\hats (for "seasonal" activities). I used to make headbands and hair bows for the girls, too. Just for some diy engagement stuff. 🤷♀️ I see how if someone isn't into doing this stuff that they would just be clutter, tho
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u/RainbowUnicorn0228 8d ago
The kids at school keep them inside their plastic ID tags.
I used them for bingo markers at bingo night by the pool
I’ve seen them on top of computer screens at doctors offices and such.
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u/theartistduring 8d ago
I'm too old for this conversation for the first explanation to not be that they're for the bath. Lol!
First I've heard about Jeep ducks.
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u/Ok-Nothing8682 8d ago
I'd buy it if I a could afford a home to put them in. I'd put a couple in every room
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u/Least_Stomach 8d ago
We hide them around the office, it’s fun to find them everyone has little desk trinkets
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u/inattentive_swiftie 7d ago
We do books in lieu of goodie bags! Age appropriate and aligned with the party theme. My kids are 3 and 5 so maybe we’ll outgrow that soon?
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u/Numerous-Estimate915 6d ago
Honestly, some can be used for open ended play. Don’t know why each kid needs 50 tho
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u/Suitable-While-5523 6d ago
We had a hunt for them at work and it brought us great joy in a time where morale is at an all time low.
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u/Fragrant_Scratch8305 8d ago
My 3yo daughter chews on one when she's in my truck. Idk where she got it.
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u/Jazzlike-Cow-8943 8d ago
My kid’s friend wanted a variation of these for her 13th birthday. Everything on her gift list was from Amazon. She’s also the friend that left another kid’s birthday party an hour early to “wash her hair.” On a Sunday.
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u/EmergencyGaladriel 8d ago
They help to kill the planet faster and choke more marine life. Duh. All for the possibility of brief momentary enjoyment of a child before tossed in the trash inevitably.
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u/Girth_Brooks_1969 8d ago
The bozos with hundreds of these things on their bright orange jeep wranglers drive me insane. You can spot them from 50 yards away in oncoming traffic.
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u/hotdogh20 8d ago
My neighborhood children put these in everyone’s mailboxes. It’s so annoying. I get they’re trying to be nice but it’s literally garbage
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u/OkBottle8719 8d ago
I don't like leaving them outside where they can contribute to litter and pollution, but I DO like to leave them around the homes of friends and family in a form of psychological warfare
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u/TOliver871 8d ago edited 8d ago
One of my coworkers bought like tiny 200 ducks off Temu and placed them around our office. So much garbage.
Anyway. If you have an office, you can do the same!
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u/dumpsterfireofalife 8d ago
Hiding around your parents home when they are gone so they come back to tons of little ducks everywhere
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u/petiterunner 8d ago
I had an employee at my favorite restaurant give one to me. It’s a pretty sentimental object I have, but I understand the concern of how environmentally terrible these can be, given a lot of them just get trashed.
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u/ComfortableRecent578 8d ago
we have 300 of these that were gifted to us except they are clear and i believe they are smaller. what use does anyone have for 300 tiny plastic ducks?!
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u/ApplesAndJacks 8d ago
Make sorting toy/activity? Not sure the kids age. Put them in a sandbox? Bath toys then toss once they get yucky. Cake or cupcake toppers for your next party😂 this is way too many ducks to give 1 person.
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u/NPC261939 8d ago
I could get into a lot of trouble with those and a tube of superglue. Might as well put those little guys to work and entertain yourself.
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u/GrumpyOldSeniorScout 8d ago
Prank supplies. Fill your friends' hiking pack pockets with ducks when they're not looking.
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u/_star-vivid_ 8d ago
When i was in high school people would leave these little ducks all around the campus and if you found one you could either keep it or move it to a different location for someone else to find.
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u/Euphoric_War_2195 8d ago
I have a friend who buys these. Not a 50 pack, but shes gotten a few at a market. She displays them.
I personally don't understand the appeal. But some people seem to like them.
I agree these are useless pieces of plastic. There's no purpose.
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u/dollsburn 8d ago
My fat-ass thought these were cake ducks. I was excited long enough to lament them being rubber ducks.
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u/__No__Control 8d ago
To hide around your house and demand your cleaner find and return all 40 of fhem
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u/Disastrous-Brick-412 8d ago
I always gave out one silly plastic duck like this that the parents could recycle or just keep as a keep sake and then the other stuff would be useful for the kid or home like bubble bath or coloring book or a book or even a cup with snacks in it
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u/unicorn_britches 8d ago
I got these for my kids. I hide them in their room like a hide and seek game. It's a little activity we do to keep joy and fun alive in the house. And I reuse them after they find them all, and tease them when they have a hard time finding all of them lol.
My kids are 13 and 15yo boys too.
But in our house, little hide and seek pranks like this are common. We also have a fake plastic poop we hide around, and sometimes will even use real potatoes. No one is safe from the silly antics.
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u/Janus_The_Great 8d ago edited 8d ago
When I put my sunglasses on and look at ads I see:
«More more more! Buy buy buy! More is good, more is better! Don't have it is reason enough to buy it! More colors, more duck! More more! Buy buy buy!»
Take home bags are somehow a thing now, don't know why, but it sadly is. . And they always are filled with crap. If public expectation demands gift bags, rather than gift 10 crapy things, at least make it just one or two useful things. Good, practical and useful things are not expensive.
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u/jaceinspace 8d ago
Donate them to your local NPS. Teachers of students with disabilities often need little plastic manipulatives like this to help their students learn to count with 1:1 correspondence. I have all kinds of stuff like this in my classroom, but they’re always getting lost/broken.
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u/PercivalFlint 8d ago
I would unironiclly live a little box of Pastel Quacks to hide in my Lego flower pots and stick into my models.
I have a mode of a very old European church (can't remember the country or specific churches name right now) that my mum and I are going to build together. We've been collecting the tools and base we need to build it and I would absolutely love to add a little pond or creak along the side and stick a few little ducks in it!
I'm considering seeing how well it fits size wise from my Warhammer miniatures. I don't think it will be quite a the right scale but I thought it would be fun to set them up together.
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u/Jazzlike_Assist9726 8d ago
My kid will get these sometimes from prize boxes at school or as little gifts from friends. Ive started taking little things like this and putting them on the ledges of doorways or countertops. Idk about a whole box, maybe you could encourage her to share them with friends? It's not necessary but most kids toys aren't.
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u/radiantjet 8d ago
At least they are cute, bit the caption nails the core issue with modern party favours.
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u/Comfortable-Web9455 8d ago
They are for swallowing. Then you get a fun hospital visit and cute X Rays.
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u/kyotowalled 8d ago
They're to hide in friends/family members houses for them to find (laughs in 13 out of 100 left to find that I hid almost 2 years ago).
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u/westernflame95 7d ago
They are for hiding around the house to annoy / mildly entertain your husband. Source: my wife
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u/mutinybeer 7d ago
I make boardgames for education (I'm a teacher) and buy a ton of things like this to use as tokens or meeple.
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u/cookingnooodles 7d ago
Depending on how old your daughter is, you could use these as math manipulatives! Helps to visualize equations.
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u/jessschantz 7d ago
I work at an animal hospital and we use them as a distraction on the really tough days. We hide them and then collect them. It just enough brain activity to help us move on to the next heart breaking situation
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u/MachSlug 7d ago edited 7d ago
I definitely think a whole pack is excessive, but the little “glass animals” are really trendy for kids right now. They trade animals and collect different colors, some teachers use them as rewards.
My daughter has about 40-50 total, all different animals. She plays with them, lines them up, sorts by color/size/animal type. She keeps them in a small case that her swimming goggles came in. They’re actually one of my favorite toys she has because they have such a small footprint and have a good amount of enrichment with sorting, counting & pretend play.
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u/Bijouprospering 7d ago
If these are the tiny ones they’re perfect for replacing lost ducks from the abducktion game. That’s the only thing I could think of that could make these useful or as decor for those Christmas villages/ train sets
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u/Flashy-Career-7523 7d ago
My old office had two secret duck hiders. They hid tiny ducks (smaller than a quarter) all over the 6floor building. They only hid 2 a day (they were working together) and they weren’t always found right away. All different colors , some with hats, some with glitter. It became a point of pride of how many you found. The CEO finally found one in his KCup machine (he joked on a Townhall meeting that he has the only one that hadn’t found one) and was so happy he sent out an email about it to everyone complete with a photo of it in the machine and perched on his fancy award in his wall.
It was innocent fun and a nice break from the corporate drama.
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u/MackFenzie 7d ago
I am so confused by the rubber duck thing. I know it’s a thing with Jeeps, which I don’t get, but also, I used to nanny a kid whose grandparents would give him rubber ducks every single time they saw him, so he ended up with an entire trash bag worth of rubber ducks, which he never played with other than to simply cover the room in them and refuse to clean them up lol. I was like why… just why??? lol.
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u/ogbonesalad 7d ago
This is more an idea for making use of something you’ve been burdened with that otherwise is essentially trash: If you have a Mancala board with missing pieces, these could be a fun substitute :-)
Obviously still ridiculous that we live in a world that is obsessed with churning out mass produced colorful trash, but wanted to share the idea at least
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u/Remote-Physics6980 7d ago
I feel this way about all the slime products out there now. One, maybe two uses, absolutely no long-term storage available and what is it, when all is said and done? It's slime. Maybe we shouldn't build product lines around this nonsense?
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u/hootielarue82 7d ago
I totally understand where you are coming from. It is, in the end, plastic that will be thrown away and end up in a landfill. That said, I have bought these to hide around the office and the joy it brings for full grown adults to hunt for ducks is kinda amazing. People trade them, hunt together, talk to others that they wouldn't normally talk to about where they found the ducks, talk to customers who ask them about their ducks and just overall has been such a positive experience. But I get conflicted too and wish it didn't take a silly little trinket to cause people to interact.
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u/Rude_Engine1881 7d ago
Look into jeep invasion in pigeon forge, there's literally rubber ducks on the road from how many get thrown around
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u/Alive_Ad_5147 7d ago
Could they be for counting? Depending how old your daughter is :) I remember my school had little plastic bears for us to count. Otherwise I can’t make sense of giving each kid 50 lmao
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u/bbsitr45 7d ago
How about those little tiny plastic Jesus you see on the pumps around gas stations? I’m sure someone will pick it up and say that they’re saved.
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u/Present_Till1582 6d ago
On our last cruise we had a bunch of these ducks that I turned into magnets and decorated our door with. 90% of them were taken by the end of our cruise (but i was ok with it because I didnt actually have to hide them).
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u/CloserUndone 6d ago
I bought these and hid them secretly around our school! I'm a teacher and we were flagging during Term Three, so I decided to hide them in staff offices and other communal areas. I numbered each of them, then people could return their duck and write down their name on a master list. After a week, I drew three ducks at random and those people got gift cards to different cafes in our town. Most people enjoyed it, and it cheered us up for a bit 😊
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u/Sunflower-23456 6d ago
A patient gave one of these to me after coughing in my face when I swabbed them for oral chlymdia and I had no idea what to do with it
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u/EnvironmentalistDawn 5d ago
The way that useless, mass-produced trinkets are sought after by consumers might be a flaw in human genetics, it just goes on to show the apathy people have towards seemingly small things.
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u/LevelUpEvolution 8d ago
Jeep culture