Stupid spoon isn't magnetic!

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So much for that.  It would have worked well, I think.  If one magnet didn't work, several would have.  But... no.  So a bit more looking and...

What if i took a plastic hose, fixed a balloon on the end of it, shoved it down the toilet past the toothbrush, inflated the balloon, then pulled out the toothbrush and inflated balloon.   My first attempt was with a rubber band to hold the balloon on...didn't work. Second try we fixed the balloon on with duct tape...pushed it down as far as we could, inflated the balloon (inflating a balloon in a toilet is hard, but possible) and started pulling it out. To my amazement, it pulled out the first balloon that we lost, as well as the toothbrush!  So there you have it...plastic tube, balloon, and tape.

 Now, will that really work?  I don't know.  I do know I recently purchased tubes, if more for slingshots and maybe, hopefully, to use with a charcoal filter I ordered, as an add to my wilderness water filter.  Yeah, rivers can have some serious fishy taste to them.  I think I have enough length, it isn't that deep in there, at most I would guess a foot, though through some curves and such.  Oh, but I never did end up buying any balloons.  I need to get to town anyway.  Milk, cream, tobacco, and just to get my butt off the chair.  Hmm... a shower, a trim, some unpacking, then out?  Yeah, maybe.

Later.