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A suicidal jam jar leapt out of the pantry to its doom on the tiles. Red sticky jammy glass everywhere. Great fun to clean up.
Oh dear. I hope it was not too full.
This possibly happened to maintain the balance of jam jar karma within the DT, as I had the good fortune to pick up a good (empty) jam jar from the food cupboard this morning, The universe added to my jam jar collection and took from yours.
This does not account for the jam, or the karmic effect incurred in cleaning up the mess. Which is a very high value as sticky jam plus glass splinters is major. Jam by itself - wipe it up. Glass by itself - sweep/vac & blutack. Both, however, is an existential crisis as the mess can neither be wiped nor swept. Even rubber gloves are not safe from the splinters. And don't even mention the vacuum cleaner.
On the other hand, underwater magpies has incurred a major karmic benefit in cleaning it up. This far outweighs the serendipitous collection of a clean empty jar. I wonder how the universe will balance the scales.
May the whole DT find a really nice empty jam jar today. For this jar was unopened and full of quite nice strawberry jam.
I'll have to do a second round of cleaning later, just in case. I'm not convinced I've got it all.
How would you safely handle cleaning that up?
Maybe by picking up the largest pieces, scraping the jam up with an old credit card, and then mopping for the stickiness and tiniest shards?
I went with picking up the biggest bits, then using a couple of containers from the recycling to scoop the worst of it. Then a few layers of paper towel and a gentle action on the worst bit, swept around the least jammy bits, and mopped. I'll go back and vaccuum presently.
I don't recommend giving it a go.