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  • Jkloon
    Senior Member
    • Aug 2013
    • 357

    #16
    Re: You have a choice to make...

    I used to do that, but I couldn't get the elastic tight enough so air would leak, and sometimes the neck would get all crumpled up and stick to itself. I've been using clips lately. Sometimes half knots.

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    • Blowitbig
      Senior Member
      • Jan 2016
      • 688

      #17
      Re: You have a choice to make...

      Sometimes I will use a clip on my balloons or I cut the mouthpiece just a little and let the balloon just deflate slowly, I very very rarely bust my balloons , I don't like when my balloons pop
      The bigger the better

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      • Seasider
        Senior Member
        • Jan 2016
        • 207

        #18
        Re: You have a choice to make...

        I just use a pair of nail scissors and snip by the knot. My wife, who isn't a looner btw taught me to do that. I've used this method hundreds of times and have never had a balloon pop or any issues! Doesn't matter if they are under or over inflated either!

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        • Bubble Boy :-P

          #19
          Re: You have a choice to make...

          Half knot...always the half knot

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          • Seasider
            Senior Member
            • Jan 2016
            • 207

            #20
            Re: You have a choice to make...

            I generally keep a couple of the nicer ones in the wardrobe, the rest I snip the neck by the knot with scissors to deflate. I only get rid of my misprint collection quickly as I don't see the as so special in terms of my collection.

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            • craggy2012
              Senior Member
              • Jan 2012
              • 824

              #21
              Re: You have a choice to make...

              If they ain't burst during play

              I only own large balloons- 24's, 36's, 72's, GL's and cloudburster's so I use zibi clips on their necks with these. But then there's something magical about allowing a balloon to slowly deflating after use...... I love all those tiny wrinkles that appear and grow as the latex contracts again.

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              • bigballcollector
                Senior Member
                • Mar 2017
                • 132

                #22
                Re: You have a choice to make...

                Before I could tie balloons I used to place a battery into the ballon neck and loop a rubber band through itself and tighten the neck, I could see the battery moving around while playing with the balloon, when I had enough I would loosen the rubber, take out the battery and leave the balloon fly around while deflating, it would be used another time. Later I used to hide 14"- 16" balloons under my bed and deflate the bigger ones, since then I halft knot all each time
                Let it be, let it free...but keep it nicely

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                • iguessimalooner
                  Junior Member
                  • Dec 2017
                  • 24

                  #23
                  Re: You have a choice to make...

                  Depends. Usually with balloons I buy from BU. I put clips or bands on them. With grocery store or balloons I can easily get, I just pop them when they get too old or oxidized. I always keep balloons for a while inside one of my rooms, then get rid/untie them when needed.
                  Texas y'all.

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                  • loonerdude44
                    Inflatable Enthusiast
                    • Oct 2017
                    • 185

                    #24
                    Re: You have a choice to make...

                    Well I deflate them if I have to get rid of them, but I am usually reluctant to do so. I value their existence (I believe in souls, and I believe objects have souls, as well as creatures), so I try to keep them for as long as possible, while making their existence (no matter how short or long) as pleasant as possible. I'd never dream of hurting a balloon, or an inflatable for that matter.

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                    • palloncino90
                      Senior Member
                      • Jan 2018
                      • 391

                      #25
                      Re: You have a choice to make...

                      I always tie them with rubber bands and then I untie them when I finish
                      I want to live surrounded of big and colorful balloons

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