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I know, but thought some of you would like to identify it.

Not something routinely encountered and probably easy to guess. The long axis of the object is about 1.50 to 1.75 inches.

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donna_loomis

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Reminds me of iron filings. I think that’s what it’s called. Magnetic fluff. When we were on a road trip as kids, Mom gave us a game to play. A drawing of a man’s head with no hair and we would use a magnet to pull the fillings and drop them where we wanted to make hair, beard, and mustache.

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justlinda
last year
Cat or dog hair on the hairbrush after giving one or the other a complete brush down.
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Jasdip
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My immediate thought was a boot brush, but it looks too soft for that.
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Annie Deighnaugh
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No idea...It's small...but looks almost like one of those whacky caterpillars you shouldn't touch...except it's mounted on plastic.
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Sherry8aNorthAL
last year
Some kind of filter?
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foodonastump
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Looks like some sort of weatherstripping to me, perhaps for a sliding door?
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lucillle
last year
Razor head
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chisue
last year
Less than two inches long, and it looks soft... I'd guess a nail buffer, but it isn't open at the ends. Do you rub something ON it, rather than rub something WITH it?
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petalique
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last year
Thanks. I suppose it could be considered a sort of filter, removing or catching what you want to discard.
chisue
last year
Not typewriter key cleaner...too soft.

OK, so it goes INTO something...acts as a 'grabber'...and then IT has to be cleaned?
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petalique
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last year
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Donna_loomis, you guessed correctly! You had a good mom.

The photo is of very fine steel filing clinging to the plastc mounted magnet of a knife sharpener.

One of my (unused) hints was going to be that it is ”polish.”

PS I couldn’t resist playing with the filings on a sheet of printer paper with a light magnet below. It is fun and an enjoyable way to introduce kids to magnetism and polarity. Even if just the fun component, and with more curious or older kids, a bit of the physics behind it.

Thanks for playing, everyone.
chisue
last year
I would never have guessed.

Playing with filings reminds me of doing the same with mercury (!) on the bathroom tiles following a thermometer 'incident'.
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Patriciae
last year
We had that same bald headed guy on trips. He got around. I did not guess though. Etch a sketch uses something similar only you scrape it off instead of moving it around.
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petalique
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last year
Now I am wonering…

We have a giganormous ”junk drawer” that I hate cleaning because I have no idea what 1/4 of the stuff is nor what d do with any of it. DH is still in training for Labeling. More than a few small zip bags with some small, expensive or irreplaceable part.

I should snap photos and ask youse guys. I know that as soon as I toss it and the trash is collected, I will find that is the jump switch for a drone and the art is no longer available.
salonva
last year
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I had no clue but now I am going to google that toy Donna described- willy something....wuickly learned it's original Wooly Willy.
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carolb_w_fl_coastal_9/10
last year
FWIW, the toy's called Wooly Willy 🙂
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