What To Do With Throws

Mardi Gras Throws What do you do with yours? Different people have different ideas.

by Chad Petri

Published: Tue, February 24, 2009 - 4:46 pm CST Last Updated: Tue, February 24, 2009 - 4:51 pm CST

Some use colorful signs, others use big nets. People will try just about anything to get their hands on Mardi Gras beads. Timothy uses his height to his advantage in order to grab the ultimate reward.

“Oh I generally take them to Krispy Kreme donut and they usually give you so many donuts per pound and then after that I pass them out to the family,” says zealous parade watcher Timothy. While some barter their beads for baked goods others are a bit more charitable.

“What am I going to do with them,” asks Ruby Woodson. “I'm going to take them back to St. Louis Missouri and give them to all of my friends.” Ruby says her friends in the Show-Me-State always want her to show them the loot.

“They wish they were here in Mobile because I tell them we are the original and we're the one that party hearty better than New Orleans,” says Ruby.

Others along the parade route collect the beads so that they'll have a second life. Deborah McAdams says she give most of hers back to friends who ride in parades so they'll be thrown again next year.

“I keep a few that I really like from year to year and I decorate with 'em and I wear ‘em back to the parades but most of them I recycle,” says Deborah. She says some end up as decorations.

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rolltide33 Says:

Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 9:38 am

Anyone care to donate beads to my “Stimulus Bead”?

rolltide33 Says:

Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 2:52 pm

I’m going to melt them all down and make one HUGE bead. I am going to paint Mobile Mardi Gras 2009 on it and drop it from the sky at the begining of next year’s Mardi Gras. As it is coming down the 2009 (which will be very BLINGY) will change to 2010. People will come in “droves” from all over the nation to see it. It should greatly impact our economy and possibly pull us out of the ressesion. It will be called my “Stimulus Bead”.

SoMo2 Says:

Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 8:09 pm

I usually use the beads in the bottoms of flower pots to ensure better drainage.