I really don't like it....and I refused to do it when I was a kid, too, lol. It's not so bad when it's still just tie-dyed, but once it's plain nasty brown, it's blah.....and I can't throw 'anything' out that's still usable, so then I'm stuck with several containers of perfectly good ugly play-doh. :(
i have older tubs of that brown colored stuff, that is so annoyingly becomes. but, i started making my own. i was putting food color in it but, i had the same neurotic problem about the mixing of colors...so, i just keep it white!
OK, good. We're not alone in this. Yes, I can see my tie-dyed gray is on its way to basic poop brown, and then I don't know what to do. Making my own could be the trick...of course, my son doesn't mind at all. As long as he can get his trucks and cars "stuck in the mud" (and how appropriate, colorwise), he's fine. But UGH. Gross. And when he puts the brownish gray sludge through the spaghetti-making tool? BLECH.
my son got this play-doh dog thing, for his birthday, last year. i hid it. i didn't want to see the play-doh, oozing from the ears, tail and mouth of a stupid looking plastic dog. so, he just uses it to make guys for his power rangers to destroy!
Oozing from the plastic dog? What the heck? I haven't seen that set yet. Thankfully. It's already caked in all of the nooks & crannies of our Bob the Builder trucks.
I'm anal, so when I was a kid I used to mix playdoh in to colors that weren't available back then - like purple, pink,... can't even remember what else. hee heee...
I think I rolled it in a neat little ball, and put it carefully on top of another color - so that they wouldn't mix at all when it was time to put the Playdoh away. See, even as a child I was anal. :)
OH sweet meats and cheeses, I hadn't thought of that. We only have hardwoods, so I can only imagine the horror of finding a big, smeared in blob in carpeting. UGH!!
I guess I'm the oddball because I don't mind at all. As long as the playdough is still soft, I don't mind the color mixing because it's good for their hands to be working the dough. My DD never got into play-doh but my DS and his buddies can play for hours, and the first thing they do is mash it all together.
What really makes my skin crawl is when there are small dried up pieces mixed in the soft play-doh! Yuck, that's gross.
My house can be a mess and I don't care, but if my daughter mixes the play-doh, I want to crawl out of my own skin. I feel your pain. Luckily they drop so many bits and pieces over time it eventually fades away.
i can't stand when my kids sneak it out of the kitchen and then i find dried up pieces all over the house! the worse is, when you don't see a hard, dried up piece in the carpet and, you step on it! ouch!
