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Ideas for Refilling for Bean Bag Chairs?

Looking for an alternative for refilling beanbag chairs. Tired of refilling with styrofoam which doesn't last and when old can't be taken to recycling.

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June 27, 20030 found this helpful
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If you use a paper shredder the shredded paper works great for refilling bean bags also. When the paper gets flat recycle and fill again:)

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April 17, 20040 found this helpful
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Try using plastic bags you get with almost everything these days, mostly grocery bags. They are refluffable.

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May 5, 20092 found this helpful
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Way, way, way back when, they used to stuff homemade mattresses with pine needles - free stuffing if you live around pine trees. I do a lot of quilting - I am stuffing and old air mattress with those bits and pieces of leftover batting that are too small for anything else - so free stuffing - look around and then think outside the box to see stuffing from things you would have never thought of before.

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November 3, 20153 found this helpful
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The stuffing from old pillows or foam mattresses is great for stuffing beanbags. Don't chuck them away, cut them up, or pull them apart into handfuls and fill up the beanbag.

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No choking hazard and free!

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February 11, 20190 found this helpful

Absolutely love this idea.

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April 9, 20160 found this helpful
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i am thinking of using wood pellets for a pellet stove. fairly cheap. cheaper than the refill styrofoam but could be heavy.

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November 5, 20162 found this helpful
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How about your child's stuffed animals? We have about a jillion that no one really plays with. After a while, we think tuck them inside the bean bag chair :)

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January 24, 20172 found this helpful
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I just refilled my daughters bean bag chair with worn out clothes that weren't in good enough shape to donate. Works perfectly

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July 11, 20170 found this helpful

Great! Ecofriendly too.
Did u cut it into small scraps or filled in as large peices?
M planning to use the same since a long time but was not sure about the final.weight and durability.

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Your sharing experience here is encouraging.

Thanks a ton!

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March 20, 20170 found this helpful
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My idea was rice and cotton. Both all natural, rice smaller therefore softer and lighter than Beans nor pointy enough to hopefully not seep through or to hurt your child. Cotton is soft and can be manipulated.

Cost maybe a little more and maybe you have to add or replace it every now and then but to the alternatives... It would definitely be worth it. If I come up with something else I'll try to answer.

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July 18, 20182 found this helpful

I used fun noodles from Dollar store cut them into 2 inch pieces...

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September 2, 20170 found this helpful
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Packaging peanuts are cheaper than beanbag filler!

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January 25, 20180 found this helpful
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I would not put edible stuff like grains etc in the bean bag for fear of rodents being attracted to it, chewing holes in the fabric and having all the contents spewing out all over the place, also i like the fact that a bean bag is light and portable, and this would not be the case if rice was used. Plastic shopping bags may just be the answer I'm looking for as I always seem to have friends with a stash of them in their cupboard.

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July 13, 20180 found this helpful
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I use bags of air that comes in your Amazon packages. They work great and surprisingly they don't pop.

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February 19, 20031 found this helpful

Use rice.

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November 17, 20040 found this helpful

How about dried beans? Then you really would have a "bean" bag chair!

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By david jones (Guest Post)
September 23, 20050 found this helpful

You could buy polystyrene beans like everyone else. You can bean bag refill online in the UK from http://www.bean-bag.co.uk

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January 25, 20060 found this helpful

Try www.polybeads.co.uk they are pretty good on price

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By Nancy (Guest Post)
November 5, 20060 found this helpful

Let's face it putting beans or rice in a bean bag makes it way to heavy. Buying refill beans is also expensive. I have put the packing peanuts in mine but they got flat really fast. So I started putting the missing or mismatched socks from the laundry in my sons bean bag. But I like the idea of the plastic bags, should go well with my socks.

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December 4, 20160 found this helpful

I've got an idea. LEAVES. What do you think?

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August 5, 20170 found this helpful

Would anything that could breaks down like leaves or pine needles (please someone suggest dog hair:) might get moldy? 'Cause, I got enough pine needles in my backyard for a convention center full of beanbag chairs!

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Anonymous
November 28, 20170 found this helpful

be aware of allergies! I have always loved having a real pine christmas tree until I realized that it was the cause of my sinus infections every year.

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January 30, 20172 found this helpful

what about wool? or may be small peices of sponge

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February 22, 20171 found this helpful

Fiberfill for stuffing pillows/stuffed animals.

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March 5, 20170 found this helpful

Rice

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April 26, 20170 found this helpful

This stuff isn't too expensive... I've also seen people save plastic shopping bags and stuff them with those too. Also, depending on your area, Styrofoam absolutely should be recyclable.

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June 4, 20170 found this helpful

I was considering uncooked macaroni....

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July 24, 20170 found this helpful

How about cotton. Currently seeking unwanted items to see how it will turn out.

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October 9, 20170 found this helpful

i used old pillow cases, stuffed animals, clothes, blankets, ant sheets.

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December 21, 20170 found this helpful

I agree with some of the answers here! I am trying to spend zero $ and revive our deflated bead chair. I have some really large stuffed animals my husband won for my daughter, and there's too many, so this is perfect solution for me. I get to make more space in her room and fill daughter's bead bag.

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I am planning to make a small round flat cushion made with old sheets and the stuffing... to insert and stitch it in place to keep it at the bottom side of the bean bag chair.

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March 15, 20180 found this helpful

Newspaper rolled into balls ... May be put inside plastic bags.. so they can be managed... Wat say? I'll be anyway trying it out .. will let u guys know the final effect

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July 11, 20180 found this helpful

How did it go? Is this a good option?

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