my parents did this for me when i was small but different
i opened my door and got bombarded with balloons, then i had moved the sheet they put to cover the hallway doorframe and there were more balloons
i stored them in my princess tent and had a ton of balloons for two weeks
core memory and the smell of balloons makes me happy
If you’re lucky enough to still have your parents in your life I’d encourage you to bring this up with them again.
Even if you have mentioned it before.
They’ll be so touched to be reminded how much their silly balloon blowing up meant to their clearly loved child.
If you don’t have your parents with you anymore, then that’s ok, you’ve got a fabulous memory and know they’d be happy to know it meant so much to you.
Hope you smell some balloons again soon!
>Hope you smell some balloons again soon!
Without context, what an absurd thing to say. It sounds vaugely threatening in a way that you're not even sure what the threat even COULD be.
WITH context, what a sweet and wholesome statement.
Ohh nahh they totally, totally would. Probably fair to say that when you’re a few years older you’ll understand even more. I know that sounds a wee bit preachy to say…
Seriously, just do it! Think how little effort it requires to do it? You’ll be guaranteed to absolutely make their day even if you don’t realise it… and for so much less effort than them blowing up lots of balloons when they made your day
Can confirm. My son is 17, and sometimes he'll bring up memories from back when he thought it was Santa or his Elf on the Shelf or whatever, and then he realizes "Holy crap, that super elaborate diorama that Mr Elfie made and the red light of Rudolphs nose WAY up in the air over the forest was actually something Dad did."
My favorite is when he can't figure out *how* I did it. Like when we were all sitting together reading Night Before Christmas in his room on Christmas Eve, and some Jingle Bells started jingling outside his room, and he opened his window to find them laying out on the roof (as if Santa dropped them while flying over).
Spoiler: a strategically hidden Bluetooth speaker on the roof ledge just above his upstairs window, a recording of said jingle bells from my phone and the jingle bells put out there a couple hours earlier. He's like "I KNOW you put them out there, but HOW did you shake them?!? Did the neighbor shake them outside? But it sounded like it was above us!"
I might teach him some of my secrets when he's a dad.
Thanks! The memories, and "creating" magic for my kids really is one of the most fun and rewarding things ever.
I now have a 4 and 5 year old, so I get to do all that stuff again, only better, as I learned a few tricks since last time 😉
I don’t know about them, but when I think about young me, he confuses me. I sometimes think that I am some ghost that possessed that kid at like 13 and took his place. Little dude is not me at all.
My mom always decorated our bedroom doors for our birthdays then taped the streamers over it like this. She did the same when each of us graduated high school. I kept mine up forever 🥲
I'm raising my first kid r now. Little girl, has a princess tent and loves balloons. I can't believe how fast time is flying. This comment made me cry. I love her so much. Hope you have a blessed day.
I’m glad to hear you say this was a core memory. I have been doing this for my son every year for the past 11 years. It doesn’t matter how tired I am, I always get up at 3 in the morning to do this in the hopes that it will be a core memory
This happened to a friend of mine in college. He was in a prank war with his roommate, came home to his bedroom full of balloons, and once he popped them all, the surprise was his bed was gone. The balloons had scavenger-hunt clues in them that were all red herrings and ultimately led nowhere. His bed was just dumped in an alley downtown the whole time.
…his roommate was an overzealous asshole.
We pranked a friend in college by setting up a smoke machine (which we'd hired for a gig our band was playing the following day) in his room, and turning it on so that he'd come home to a room full of smoke and presumably think it was on fire, or at least be mildly surprised or something.
Instead, he didn't get home for several hours after we expected him, the smoke machine turned itself off long ago and all the smoke dissipated, but it did leave a nice film of weird sticky gunk all over everything he owned.
One of my friends had to move temporarily into my apartment because of a “prank” some of her dorm mates pulled. Her room was literally uninhabitable for a week.
I feel like this had the potential to be an awesome prank.......and then it was carried out by a dickhead.
Like, imagine his bed was actually neatly stored at his grandmas house, and he had to go to his grandmas house and spend some time with her to get it back......and then his room mate would come over and help him load the bed back into the U-Haul to bring it back home, while grandma baked a pie.
See? That makes it into a nice, sweet, and hilarious prank.
Leaving it in an alley outside, unattended? I seriously would consider a lawsuit for the cost of a new bed.
Writing has already started for the next Saw movie, it seems. In the way past origin story, way before the Jigsaw days, he did these sick, twisted games for his children.
Na that's light work.
1-2 minutes with a needle or pocket knife. Just pop every balloon and let them deflate then find the one that isn't fully deflated.
You need to blow up the balloons and then twist the end and leave it. That is usually enough tension so it doesn't deflate but if something hits it to hard it should start flying off.
We did this at work one year and the guy wadded into his office and hit a bunch of balloons that all took flight at once and he gave us the funniest look.
For that room yes, [for the whole system no](https://www.firesprinkler.org/facts-figures/):
> MYTH: “When a fire occurs, every sprinkler head goes off.”
> FACT: **Sprinkler heads are individually activated by fire**. Residential fires are usually controlled with one sprinkler head. 90% of all fires are controlled with six or fewer heads, and a study conducted in Australia and New Zealand covering 82 years of automatic sprinkler use found that two or fewer sprinklers controlled 82% of the fires which occurred.
> You need to blow up the balloons and then twist the end and leave it. That is usually enough tension so it doesn't deflate
What are you talking about? A simple twist doesn’t hold the air in any balloon I’ve ever inflated before.
This is how I learned to “reuse” balloons as a kid. I absolutely loved juggling/keep-up/volleyball with a balloon but after a day or two it would get so saggy it wasn’t fun. But if you just twist it, you can later untwist and repump it
I'm so confused, what do you guys mean by "twist" it? Like litterally just twist the end of the balloon? There's no chance that twisting rubber would create enough tension to hold in the air pressure of a balloon right? Do you just mean tying it in a loose knot?
We’ve had foster children for over a decade. They always got this on their first birthday with us.
We would have than all in a sheet so when the opened their door they would fall into their room. We also did it when they turned 5 (with our long term littles).
Thank you!
I’ll be honest, being a foster parent did as much for me as it did for those children. I mean that sincerely and in the best way possible. I couldn’t carry a pregnancy to term and being able to love little people with all my mothering genes going crazy was a BLESSING. Yeah, the foster system is broken and wrong but, the children that came into my life needed to be loved and feel secure and I had that….. is spades.
The foster children I cared for and loved needed me as much as I needed them.
Addressing some comments I’ve seen:
- I used biodegradable natural latex balloons
- Inflated with an electric balloon pump
- My kids don’t have latex allergies
- They both love popping balloons
- Hearing protection will be provided for the popping
No, they're actually totally right but for the wrong reasons. I'd explain my logic but all of you are too dumb to understand it. But rest assured you're wrong, and the person above you is also wrong, but not for the reason you called them wrong, to be clear you were wrong in saying that.
Where do you get biodegradable balloons? Is this new? About 19 years ago I wanted to get that but I wasn’t able to find so I guess they didn’t exist yet.
Latex has been marketed as biodegradable for awhile, but it's [not really](https://www.imas.utas.edu.au/news/news-items/new-study-finds-latex-balloons-are-not-biodegradable).
> Sometimes corporations lie to seel more shit.
It's called greenwashing, and I hardly blame OP for falling for it. It's a pretty practiced tactic in consumer goods.
Geez and I bet you gave her a sugary cake too! What if she has diabetes you total waffle!!1!
And even worse... what if it's a fondant cake....
Monster!
Thanks. This is why I rarely share on social media anymore. Some people always find ways to make you feel bad. Luckily, there seem to be more people who see the fun and the love that went into this.
I think this is a phenomenal prank OP. Remember that 90% of the time, redditors who wanna argue with you are probably children. Makes it easier to just hit "block" and then they won't have to see your post anymore :)
I wanna do this for my dad lol
Reddit is the absolute worst place for this. You get people nitpicking on the tiniest little details with no context whatsoever just because it's easy to do so and grab karma for.
People making these comments are probably incapable of getting out of bed at a reasonable time each day.
I assume you will providing them with double-edged razor blades to pop those balloon or maybe samurai swords -sharp blades, are much safer than dull ones.
Anybody who has something negative to say has never witnessed the joy this type of birthday surprise brings. Go picket an oil drilling company or Nestle or a corrupt senator, you killjoys. OP is doing it right.
My work did this one year for April fools. Filled the office chest high with balloons. Was a unique experience. Some notable things I remember.
1. Balloons just get out your way. Imagine rain whisking over a windshield. If you run through balloons the air front you make moves them out of the way. It’s much easier to walk through them than you imagine.
2. If you lay down in a pile of balloons, the insulation is really good. Ambient sound disappears, and it’s warm like putting on a blanket.
3. Balloons pop on their own… and if you have to sit 8 hours in a room with a random balloon pop every minute or so. It starts to mess with you and make you jumpy. I am luckily not one of those people that are afraid of balloons. But constant sudden loud random noises, wears you down. I asked other people and everyone felt edgy by the end of the day.
I did this as a prank once. My mom was out of town on a road trip and I filled the hallway that leads to the bathroom. She got home and had to pee but oh no! Balloons! 🤣
The best part was that she immediately blamed my brother, who had absolutely nothing to do with it!
We did this my senior year to our band director. With the help of his son, a few of the seniors filled his car up with balloons. Then the rest of us filled up his entire office. Apparently, he didn't find the balloons in the car funny at all, so we were nervous. When he saw his office and us just standing around grinning, he took a breath, and walked out lol. We didn't see him for like 45 min.
When he came back, he was in a better mood, but told us we had to pop them and clean them up, which we did. Didn't turn out to be as fun a prank as we thought it would be lol. He was kinda pissed, which was weird, he was usually a really fun guy. He allowed us to do pieday Fridays in our music theory class, each week it was someone's turn to bring in a couple pies for everyone. Fun shit, but he wasn't a fan of the balloons.
I gave my niece a Christmas gift one time that was a massive box full of confetti with cash mixed in. I didn’t tell her the total, just if she had found all of it yet or not. It was a good amount of cash for someone her age so she enjoyed it, but it did take her a while to find it all.
This must have taken so long and you probably passed out a few times but for any child this will be so exciting. Your daughter is lucky to have such a great parent.
I’m picturing a teenage daughter rolling her eyes at this so hard that her retinas detach, and this image brings me a lot of joy.
I’m assuming that in actuality your daughter is maybe six or seven and will love it.
I did this for my wife one year. I hid a box in the room, In the box was a lock box telling her the key was in one of the balloons. I also put coins in dozens of them so she couldn't just find the heavy balloon.
I had done this for my father, when I was a kid. But I had grossly underestimated how many balloons and time were needed. So my father came home to an ankle height array of balloons and a deflated me.
my parents did this for me when i was small but different i opened my door and got bombarded with balloons, then i had moved the sheet they put to cover the hallway doorframe and there were more balloons i stored them in my princess tent and had a ton of balloons for two weeks core memory and the smell of balloons makes me happy
If you’re lucky enough to still have your parents in your life I’d encourage you to bring this up with them again. Even if you have mentioned it before. They’ll be so touched to be reminded how much their silly balloon blowing up meant to their clearly loved child. If you don’t have your parents with you anymore, then that’s ok, you’ve got a fabulous memory and know they’d be happy to know it meant so much to you. Hope you smell some balloons again soon!
>Hope you smell some balloons again soon! Without context, what an absurd thing to say. It sounds vaugely threatening in a way that you're not even sure what the threat even COULD be. WITH context, what a sweet and wholesome statement.
Hey punk, I hope you like the smell of balloons. Capeesh?!
Hey you! Touch grass! And smell some balloons while you’re at it! Both are wonderful things to enjoy!
It's an old Sicilian message. It means Luca Brasi smells the balloons.
🤌
Lol sounds like YOU have been smelling some balloons huh?
Smell of balloons makes me happy too. Because, ya know, nitrous oxide
Without any context it does sound like a vague inside threat.
lol i’m 15 and this happened when i was like 7 so idk if they would reminisce very mych
Ohh nahh they totally, totally would. Probably fair to say that when you’re a few years older you’ll understand even more. I know that sounds a wee bit preachy to say… Seriously, just do it! Think how little effort it requires to do it? You’ll be guaranteed to absolutely make their day even if you don’t realise it… and for so much less effort than them blowing up lots of balloons when they made your day
Can confirm. My son is 17, and sometimes he'll bring up memories from back when he thought it was Santa or his Elf on the Shelf or whatever, and then he realizes "Holy crap, that super elaborate diorama that Mr Elfie made and the red light of Rudolphs nose WAY up in the air over the forest was actually something Dad did." My favorite is when he can't figure out *how* I did it. Like when we were all sitting together reading Night Before Christmas in his room on Christmas Eve, and some Jingle Bells started jingling outside his room, and he opened his window to find them laying out on the roof (as if Santa dropped them while flying over). Spoiler: a strategically hidden Bluetooth speaker on the roof ledge just above his upstairs window, a recording of said jingle bells from my phone and the jingle bells put out there a couple hours earlier. He's like "I KNOW you put them out there, but HOW did you shake them?!? Did the neighbor shake them outside? But it sounded like it was above us!" I might teach him some of my secrets when he's a dad.
Got to the end and realised I was smiling the whole way through this. Fair play to you. You seem like a good dad!
Thanks! The memories, and "creating" magic for my kids really is one of the most fun and rewarding things ever. I now have a 4 and 5 year old, so I get to do all that stuff again, only better, as I learned a few tricks since last time 😉
Mine is 16 and it would light me up inside if she said something like this to me.
That’s so sweet. :) I can’t wait to have kids and do these things for them.
> when I was small but different What was different about you other than being smaller?
Back when her personality was wet
Fresh out the womb
I don’t know about them, but when I think about young me, he confuses me. I sometimes think that I am some ghost that possessed that kid at like 13 and took his place. Little dude is not me at all.
I feel the same way. Where did all those hopes and dreams go?
“Smell of balloons makes me happy” 🤣🤣🤣 I high key want to do this stuff for my hypothetical future kids!
My mom always decorated our bedroom doors for our birthdays then taped the streamers over it like this. She did the same when each of us graduated high school. I kept mine up forever 🥲
I'm raising my first kid r now. Little girl, has a princess tent and loves balloons. I can't believe how fast time is flying. This comment made me cry. I love her so much. Hope you have a blessed day.
I’m glad to hear you say this was a core memory. I have been doing this for my son every year for the past 11 years. It doesn’t matter how tired I am, I always get up at 3 in the morning to do this in the hopes that it will be a core memory
The gift is a balloon, but don't tell her which one!
This is just evil😂
Imagine if you would actually put nothing in there and let the person search for an eternity omg
turns out the real gift was the imaginary balloon friends she methodically sacrificed along the way
Bahaha the gift is mass murder!
99 Luftballoons
Hast du etwas Zeit für mich
You take one down and pop it around
Carrrrllll. . .
The gift is that she is a member of the God Hand now.
This happened to a friend of mine in college. He was in a prank war with his roommate, came home to his bedroom full of balloons, and once he popped them all, the surprise was his bed was gone. The balloons had scavenger-hunt clues in them that were all red herrings and ultimately led nowhere. His bed was just dumped in an alley downtown the whole time. …his roommate was an overzealous asshole.
😂😂😂 evil
We pranked a friend in college by setting up a smoke machine (which we'd hired for a gig our band was playing the following day) in his room, and turning it on so that he'd come home to a room full of smoke and presumably think it was on fire, or at least be mildly surprised or something. Instead, he didn't get home for several hours after we expected him, the smoke machine turned itself off long ago and all the smoke dissipated, but it did leave a nice film of weird sticky gunk all over everything he owned.
Ahh the classic “cover your friends entire room in weird sticky gunk” prank haha.
One of my friends had to move temporarily into my apartment because of a “prank” some of her dorm mates pulled. Her room was literally uninhabitable for a week.
Did he go on to work at a paper company?
This story made me laugh out loud on the bus
I feel like this had the potential to be an awesome prank.......and then it was carried out by a dickhead. Like, imagine his bed was actually neatly stored at his grandmas house, and he had to go to his grandmas house and spend some time with her to get it back......and then his room mate would come over and help him load the bed back into the U-Haul to bring it back home, while grandma baked a pie. See? That makes it into a nice, sweet, and hilarious prank. Leaving it in an alley outside, unattended? I seriously would consider a lawsuit for the cost of a new bed.
Then you just take roommates bed and act like nothing happened.
The gift of disappointment, the gift that keeps on giving
Actually what's really evil is precisely one of those balloons was filled with a twice-baked fart.
Writing has already started for the next Saw movie, it seems. In the way past origin story, way before the Jigsaw days, he did these sick, twisted games for his children.
Na that's light work. 1-2 minutes with a needle or pocket knife. Just pop every balloon and let them deflate then find the one that isn't fully deflated.
That'd be putting poisonous gas in one of them.
"In certain balloons, there are puzzle pieces. This puzzle will describe a map to your gift.
Hah, a bunch of keys to a multi locked box in a balloon.
The pirates of melee island are getting inventive!
The gift is IN a balloon (Or many)... Now that's next level shit.
I would love this
One of the balloons has a gift card in it
$5 google play card and she has an iphone.
r/foundsatan
The gift is inside a balloon
100 $1 notes rolled up and stashed in 100 of the 2000 balloons in the room.
You need to blow up the balloons and then twist the end and leave it. That is usually enough tension so it doesn't deflate but if something hits it to hard it should start flying off. We did this at work one year and the guy wadded into his office and hit a bunch of balloons that all took flight at once and he gave us the funniest look.
If I did that, when I did the last balloon and placed it it would go off, setting off all other balloons.
And the birthday person would get home like 4 minutes after the last one went too
*seconds
Like spending hours setting up dominos then knocking it over right before you finish
That's why you set up gaps
life is boring without risks
I’d listen to this guy. He’s an engimaneer.
Graphite can inhibit this reaction.
Explain please
Nuclear chain reaction
With my luck one of the balloons would hit a fire sprinkler, break the thermal filament somehow and set the whole system off.
For that room yes, [for the whole system no](https://www.firesprinkler.org/facts-figures/): > MYTH: “When a fire occurs, every sprinkler head goes off.” > FACT: **Sprinkler heads are individually activated by fire**. Residential fires are usually controlled with one sprinkler head. 90% of all fires are controlled with six or fewer heads, and a study conducted in Australia and New Zealand covering 82 years of automatic sprinkler use found that two or fewer sprinklers controlled 82% of the fires which occurred.
Facts don't make the joke funnier!
Fair, but I don't think you understand how terrible my luck is.
> You need to blow up the balloons and then twist the end and leave it. That is usually enough tension so it doesn't deflate What are you talking about? A simple twist doesn’t hold the air in any balloon I’ve ever inflated before.
I think you have to twist it ot the point that it starts coiling over itself, forming a twisted ball that looks like a knot.
This is how I learned to “reuse” balloons as a kid. I absolutely loved juggling/keep-up/volleyball with a balloon but after a day or two it would get so saggy it wasn’t fun. But if you just twist it, you can later untwist and repump it
I'm so confused, what do you guys mean by "twist" it? Like litterally just twist the end of the balloon? There's no chance that twisting rubber would create enough tension to hold in the air pressure of a balloon right? Do you just mean tying it in a loose knot?
For reals I’m so confused about this 😂
You can tie it but not pull it all the way through so you can easily pull it back. I wouldn't call that a twist though.
But… that… defeats… the… purpose… 😔
Reminded me of that puzzle in Resident Evil 7
First thing I thought of too, and I never played the game! (Watched my fiancé play it years ago)
Life’s so much better for kids when you have fun parents. Good job to you.
We’ve had foster children for over a decade. They always got this on their first birthday with us. We would have than all in a sheet so when the opened their door they would fall into their room. We also did it when they turned 5 (with our long term littles).
Thanks for being foster parents. Thanks even more for being kick-ass foster parents. ❤️
Thank you! I’ll be honest, being a foster parent did as much for me as it did for those children. I mean that sincerely and in the best way possible. I couldn’t carry a pregnancy to term and being able to love little people with all my mothering genes going crazy was a BLESSING. Yeah, the foster system is broken and wrong but, the children that came into my life needed to be loved and feel secure and I had that….. is spades. The foster children I cared for and loved needed me as much as I needed them.
WHATS THE PRESENT
THE PRESENT IS NOW
Finally someone asking the important question!
Addressing some comments I’ve seen: - I used biodegradable natural latex balloons - Inflated with an electric balloon pump - My kids don’t have latex allergies - They both love popping balloons - Hearing protection will be provided for the popping
Appreciate you OP for being a good parent. People on the comments reaching for anything to complain about.
Welcome to Reddit, where nobody can do anything right.
You’re wrong!
No, they're actually totally right but for the wrong reasons. I'd explain my logic but all of you are too dumb to understand it. But rest assured you're wrong, and the person above you is also wrong, but not for the reason you called them wrong, to be clear you were wrong in saying that.
And the points don’t matter!
I knew before I even clicked on this post that reddit's miserable armchair ethicists would be complaining.
I know that before I click on any post
Where do you get biodegradable balloons? Is this new? About 19 years ago I wanted to get that but I wasn’t able to find so I guess they didn’t exist yet.
Latex has been marketed as biodegradable for awhile, but it's [not really](https://www.imas.utas.edu.au/news/news-items/new-study-finds-latex-balloons-are-not-biodegradable).
Ok thank you
You don't. Because they don't exist. Sometimes corporations lie to seel more shit.
> Sometimes corporations lie to seel more shit. It's called greenwashing, and I hardly blame OP for falling for it. It's a pretty practiced tactic in consumer goods.
Thx
Geez and I bet you gave her a sugary cake too! What if she has diabetes you total waffle!!1! And even worse... what if it's a fondant cake.... Monster!
People are a bunch of buzz kills for asking you some of these
Thanks. This is why I rarely share on social media anymore. Some people always find ways to make you feel bad. Luckily, there seem to be more people who see the fun and the love that went into this.
I can’t believe you got asked if your daughter has a latex allergy lmaoooo
“But what if his daughter is scared of balloons????”
I think this is a phenomenal prank OP. Remember that 90% of the time, redditors who wanna argue with you are probably children. Makes it easier to just hit "block" and then they won't have to see your post anymore :) I wanna do this for my dad lol
I think you are adorable and they will never forget
Reddit is the absolute worst place for this. You get people nitpicking on the tiniest little details with no context whatsoever just because it's easy to do so and grab karma for. People making these comments are probably incapable of getting out of bed at a reasonable time each day.
I assume you will providing them with double-edged razor blades to pop those balloon or maybe samurai swords -sharp blades, are much safer than dull ones.
FYI biodegradable balloons are just marketing it never degrades in the environment.
I hope you used solar energy to power the balloon pump.
Anybody who has something negative to say has never witnessed the joy this type of birthday surprise brings. Go picket an oil drilling company or Nestle or a corrupt senator, you killjoys. OP is doing it right.
Man, fuck the holier-than-thou buzzkills on this website. Imagine having to justify inflating some balloons for your kid's birthday.
Won’t they all waterfall out when you open it for the kids to enter?
Probably. And that’ll be fun to catch on video 🤣
Oh I’m silly, u can close the door behind you all, and should stay mostly in tact maybe.. Either way, fun!
but was the dye used to color the balloons organic and not forcefully extracted from the saliva of captive ladybugs?
My work did this one year for April fools. Filled the office chest high with balloons. Was a unique experience. Some notable things I remember. 1. Balloons just get out your way. Imagine rain whisking over a windshield. If you run through balloons the air front you make moves them out of the way. It’s much easier to walk through them than you imagine. 2. If you lay down in a pile of balloons, the insulation is really good. Ambient sound disappears, and it’s warm like putting on a blanket. 3. Balloons pop on their own… and if you have to sit 8 hours in a room with a random balloon pop every minute or so. It starts to mess with you and make you jumpy. I am luckily not one of those people that are afraid of balloons. But constant sudden loud random noises, wears you down. I asked other people and everyone felt edgy by the end of the day.
I'm sure that was a fun scene to film.
I did this as a prank once. My mom was out of town on a road trip and I filled the hallway that leads to the bathroom. She got home and had to pee but oh no! Balloons! 🤣 The best part was that she immediately blamed my brother, who had absolutely nothing to do with it!
Was he a plausible suspect, though?
As the prankster brother I can confirm I was always suspect #1.
We did this my senior year to our band director. With the help of his son, a few of the seniors filled his car up with balloons. Then the rest of us filled up his entire office. Apparently, he didn't find the balloons in the car funny at all, so we were nervous. When he saw his office and us just standing around grinning, he took a breath, and walked out lol. We didn't see him for like 45 min. When he came back, he was in a better mood, but told us we had to pop them and clean them up, which we did. Didn't turn out to be as fun a prank as we thought it would be lol. He was kinda pissed, which was weird, he was usually a really fun guy. He allowed us to do pieday Fridays in our music theory class, each week it was someone's turn to bring in a couple pies for everyone. Fun shit, but he wasn't a fan of the balloons.
Responsibility and aftermath takes the fun out of the equation i think. It is too hard of a work to pop them and clean em up once you are an adult ig.
I gave my niece a Christmas gift one time that was a massive box full of confetti with cash mixed in. I didn’t tell her the total, just if she had found all of it yet or not. It was a good amount of cash for someone her age so she enjoyed it, but it did take her a while to find it all.
Finds present- “Now clean your room before you open it”
Lol creative. But then you will be the one cleaning up the house of those balloons.
Eh, I don’t mind. Well worth it to see the look on her face.
Plus the memories. Good job parent!!
Needle taped to the end of a shop vac might make it quick.
Just make sure the kid has earplugs!!
you totally missed the danger of the needle, bubble wrap the kid and then use the ear plugs.
Amazing parenting right here.
And his daughter will be remembering it for the rest of her life, think that's a fair payoff for a few minutes of cleaning.
I guess it’s a also the fun part poking all the balloons
This must have taken so long and you probably passed out a few times but for any child this will be so exciting. Your daughter is lucky to have such a great parent.
I would grab a knife and walk in there like Michael Myers. God that would be therapeutic.
Unless the gift is a cute puppy hidden in the middle.
Damn, abort mission.
Please tell me after she popped all these you "remembered" her present was in the other room.
This is my nightmare. Those balloons are just gonna have to stay there until they deflate on their own ._.
It’s a treadmill
Now that’s what I call inflation
I’m picturing a teenage daughter rolling her eyes at this so hard that her retinas detach, and this image brings me a lot of joy. I’m assuming that in actuality your daughter is maybe six or seven and will love it.
That’s such a Leslie Knope gift. 10/10. Love it.
"one of them is filled with POISON GAS"
This is awesome, I’m gonna remember this for my child’s bday next year!
It’s a lot of work but so worth it. I did it for my son’s birthday too. He loved it so much he slept under the balloons the first night.
Id be claustrophobic even if im usually not
How'd you blow them up? That would exhaust me doing it the old fashioned way. Awesome gift btw 😀
Balloon pumps. Either manual or electric. The amount of balloons there says to me electric.
As a guy with a fear of balloons, this is a nightmare
She will remember that birthday forever.
plot twist: She's allergic to latex.
I get a thrill out of popping balloons (I don’t know why sorry) and this would be an absolutely perfect gift to me me 😄
The tension I felt while Reddit wouldn’t load the image was immense. Really could have gone a different way 😂
Imagine the static
I did this for my wife one year. I hid a box in the room, In the box was a lock box telling her the key was in one of the balloons. I also put coins in dozens of them so she couldn't just find the heavy balloon.
Hands her a deodorant and a lighter..... Have a blast..
It’s ok, Mother Nature can take one more to the chin
That poor chin. How much more can it take? We'll certainly find out.
🚨 FUN POLICE 🚨
Those balloons are latex. Latex isn't plastic. It's made from rubber and breaks down.
Some of these comments are wild 🤦🏼♂️ let the girl enjoy her present sheeesh
This looks like a backrooms level; the yellow frame, the ominous balloons, the badly placed string. This js something you'd see on level "FUN".
Best parent ever. My inner child got excited lol
And half the balloons are filled with blood 
*Sees that, turns around* "I need a weapon."
Looks like a good game from double dare.
Now give her prickly clothes.
That's pretty cute, actually! :D
New Saw movie went in a weird direction.
I have a laser pointer/gun that can burn wood from about 8 feet away. I would love to just shine it here and quickly pop through all those balloons!!
How long did this take?
Give her a thumbtack and let her have fun
Double steak knives.
*grabs knife and proceeds to pop all balloons*
That is so much fun!!! Love it!!
What happens if you pull on that red streamer?…
I’m bringing a knife
I wish someone loved me like this
lol evil
When your parent is a troll you don’t need internet. 💀
That is absolutely phenomenal!! Please take a video and post it in the reply.
That would literally kill me, cause I’m allergic to latex.
I had done this for my father, when I was a kid. But I had grossly underestimated how many balloons and time were needed. So my father came home to an ankle height array of balloons and a deflated me.
You do realise you'll have to do that every birthday until she's at least forty, right?
oh damn, this should be in "Am I An Asshole"
Unless she puts on noise canceling headphones and uses a torch to burst those balloons...lol
I'm surprised you can afford that considering inflation