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Scrivener7

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1. Dollar tree is having "negative balloon sales." Those balloons are nothing but

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Fri May 27, 2022, 09:33 AM

May 2022

more plastic trash, single use, ending up in trees and fields and roofs and ultimately in landfills.

They're pollution. Nothing more.

Other ramifications of the helium shortage may be unfortunate, but reduction of occasion and toy balloons is a benefit.

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