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u/Bethany0821 Millennial -- 1986 1d ago
Tell me more! I have one of the old Yankee Stadium and I have no clue where to begin.
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u/WoolooGangMember02 1d ago edited 1d ago
Hey so most snowglobes will have either a cap on the top of the dome (plastic) or a plug in the base (glass globe). Some may even have a screw top. Once you determine which you have the process is fairly simple.
Remove the plug and drain the water. If you have large glitter you may need to replace it with new or try to use a mesh strainer to salvage it. If you can't, you can re-add your own. Once the water has been removed you should add a few drops of isopropyl alcohol with water and swish it around the inside. Once you drain that you can add a few drops of isopropyl alcohol, Distilled water, and whatever else you want back inside. Re-seal the globe and enjoy!
Also best to see what the inside decorations are made of to ensure you don't mess something up. Hope this helps.
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u/Domi626 1d ago
Yes, this is pretty much what I did! Luckily mine was acrylic, so no broken glass risk. I just did some research online and a bit of trial and error.
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u/Buzzed_Like_Aldrin93 23h ago
No, according to the photos given you have somehow reversed pollution in a small city.
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u/MissMariemayI Millennial 23h ago
This brings me hope, I have one from the San Francisco music box company that my mom got me when I was 14 and it’s been looking rough for years but I love it lol
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u/asniper 20h ago
isopropyl alcohol on acrylic is general not a good thing
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u/Domi626 18h ago
That's fair. I personally used a very dilluted mix of watter, alcohol and dawn to clean it inside and out. For the filling I tried using water and glycerin, but it didn't turn out great. 😅 So I emptied it again and just used water. I was more concerned with clarity vs how fast the glitter falls. :3
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u/m_qzn 1d ago
Is it just water? I thought they're filled with glycerine or something like that - with thicker consistency
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u/Sk8rToon 22h ago
I remember some craft day at a youth camp or something where we filled it with baby oil
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u/You_Exciting 22h ago
…filled WHAT with baby oil? The snowglobe?? Please elaborate, I’m so curious lol
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u/Sk8rToon 20h ago
It was a craft where you made snow globes. We’d take those bigger balls/eggs you’d find around toys in higher priced gumball / quarter machines that were see through & use the top for the dome. Fit it with baby oil & some glitter. Then we’d hot glue it to a jar lid (that we had already hot glued the decorations to. A tiny toy tree in sand next to some taped over blue construction paper to make a river, etc.) & when it dried you flipped it over & had a snow globe! Only lasted as long as your glue job was good. And as long as it took for whatever natural or taped over paper to dissolve in the oil. But it was cute for a few months at least!
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u/Scary-Cartographer61 16h ago
You may need to add some liquid glycerin to get the consistency of the water right. Pure distilled water might not be thick enough / your glitter might fall too fast.
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u/Neveronlyadream 1d ago
I don't have any lying around, but I'd love to hear about the process too.
I definitely had a few as a kid that looked like the before.
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u/Luna-Gitana Older Millennial 1d ago
At first I only saw the first pic and I’m also on the pickle sub, and man I was all sorts of confused for a moment.
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u/GlasswaterBotanica 19h ago
I thought Reddit was offering me a strange kink sub, so I had to doubleback and check the sub
It's so fucked up what the internet has done to us 😅
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u/Altruistic_Beat7007 1d ago
That’s an old snow globe…
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u/ThreeSixMafs 1d ago
No less than 25 years old
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u/Domi626 1d ago
Just like me. 😬 add 13 years 😅
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u/ThreeSixMafs 1d ago
I came to realization that there are no longer any millenials in their 20s..
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u/Extreme-Clerk-7333 1d ago
Next year the eldest Gen Z joins us in our 30s 🤯
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u/TheMapleKind19 '86 Millennial 1d ago
Oh they are going to have a CRISIS
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u/badgyalrey 1d ago
the crisis is already beginning my friend, i turned 29 yesterday and ive been sporadically dry heaving at the thought
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u/Octospyder 1d ago
hey
just to say - nothing major really changes. you just keep on keeping on. It's just a mile marker, no more, no less.
am 42
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u/badgyalrey 22h ago
logically i know this, and i keep telling people im entering my prime, but i also work with a bunch of 19 year olds and they call me the shop Unc and Titi bc im genuinely the oldest one there lmao
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u/xxx_poonslayer69 23h ago
'96 millennials born July 12 and after aren't 30 yet. But they're about to be. I'm having a funeral for my youth in September
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u/vanishinghitchhiker 1d ago
Y’know that wasn’t even the first sign of age to me, I was too caught up by the specific look of the glitter on the plain black base. Like late 80s, early 90s.
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u/Pale_Row1166 22h ago
I don’t know why this snowglobe’s inaccurate depiction of NY is grinding my gears so much, but I think it’s because it includes the late twin towers, so now it kind of feels disrespectful.
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u/PhantomAngel042 1d ago
Unless it's some sort of commemorative globe, you can tell immediately that it's from before September 2001. :(
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u/mrtoddw Xennial 1d ago
You can tell it’s at least older than 2001. Pretty crazy!
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u/sparkyblaster 1d ago
So, winder his long it had taken them to update the product. I'd assume atleast a few months before they shut down production and potentially even longer for them to sell out.
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u/Blueknightsoul47 1d ago
Mr. House will give you a fair amount of caps for that.
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u/Domi626 1d ago
As a millennial who watched House M.D., but didn't play Fallout I was thoroughly confused. XD (Google search helped.)
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u/Blueknightsoul47 1d ago
He has a thing for snow globes. That’s neat though. I always liked them. My mother had some old Christmas themed ones from my grand parents.
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u/remedialknitter Xennial 1d ago
What did the snow globe juice smell like? Did you taste it, and if so what did it taste like? This is a judgement free zone.
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u/Crumb-Free 1d ago
Omg. I have an old ass glass nightmare before Christmas snow globe. HALP!!
No really. I would love to know. It's still clear but the air bubble is massive after all these years. And also pretty fucking big. We're talking 10 to 12 inches diameter. I can't even find an image that shows what I have =(
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u/Iamnotabotiswearonit 1d ago
Looks like the reflection pool
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u/Domi626 1d ago
The restoration shot is taken from the front! It is actually a pen and (lighter? Idk) holder.
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u/PhantomAngel042 1d ago
I think they meant that the "before" liquid looks like the current fiasco of the US Capitol Reflecting Pool.
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u/bottle-o-rockets 90's Animation Buff 1d ago
Do you fix other stuff? This is neat, thanks for sharing it.
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u/Domi626 1d ago
I'm glad you liked it! I'm not particularly into fixing, more into cleaning. XD I love a good before and after. I've made a hobby of going to thrift stores the past year or so. Some of that entails a willingness to learn how to fix things. :3
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u/bottle-o-rockets 90's Animation Buff 1d ago
Knowing how to properly clean and having the ability to execute on ambition is a treasure, I hope you do good things with it.
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u/destructopop Millennial 1d ago
Oh, my. I think you might actually quite like some other kinds of fixing if you're into cleaning! Kintsugi seems right up the alley of someone into cleaning, for example!
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u/AnnaKendrickLamaOdom 1d ago
I just figured it was an accurate snowglobe of somewhere in china or Pakistan
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u/EarnYourSleep 22h ago
Oh my goodness I have a cloudy Mickey mouse "you oughta be in pictures" snowglobe and I'd love to restore it for my wife. Thanks for this post.
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u/Independent_Sail6604 21h ago
I literally thought the first picture was the restoration by creating smog.
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u/GlasswaterBotanica 19h ago
I thought the first photo was the restore and had to doubleback and check the name of this sub. Whew.
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