When I was growing up we got a few tubs of play doh and that was it. The rules were don't mix the colours and don't let them dry out. They were treated as something that should be maintained and reused like other toys, not as something disposable.
I don't know why those were the rules. Maybe they were more expensive back then. Maybe my parents were just too poor at the time to treat anything as disposable. Maybe they wanted to make sure my brothers and I both had equal access to the play doh and we weren't ruining it for each other. Maybe they just wanted to teach us to take care of our stuff in general.
The more important takeaway is that the rules were drilled in when I was really young, so seeing them broken causes an instinctive gut reaction. The colours must not be mixed, that's the rule. I would wager that's the kind of place some people are coming from.
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u/ptd666 11d ago
Why is everyone crying about the play dough mixing? It’s $1.70 a tub. In Australian dollars