How to retrieve a balloon from a very high ceiling

FIle under: "Why didn't I think of that before?"
When you have a party with kids and balloons, it's inevitable that you'll get a few balloons flying away, because 1. kids do it just because and 2. grown ups don't tie them tightly enough to the kids. Anyway, the problem is how to get the balloons if the venue you're using has a very high ceiling - ie, warehouse, church roof kinda height.
The people who rented us this place had a solution to this: attach a very long cord to another balloon, and attach double-sided tape to it. Let this balloon float up to where the other balloon is located, making sure
1. the cord you attach is long enough to go from ceiling to the floor,
2. the cord - if it's made up of multiple ropes - are all tied tightly to each other, and
3. you don't let go of the rope.
The first few times we tried to set up our 'rescue balloon', we put in too much tape and it wouldn't float up high enough. So we had to settle for just having fewer tapes attached to it. Though this makes it harder because you have to somehow control the balloon so the side with the tape is the one that comes in contact with our lost balloon.

[@georgi43]

Excelente idea!!!! Como no se me habia ocurrido... y yo esperando a que se les acabara el helio para rescatarlos, hhhehehe Excelent Idea! why I dont see this video before y was watting the balloon until helium finish

[@rufflespuppi5216]

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[@HolidayInGuantanamo]

@cooperwulpaw93 Click on the "More info" link in the column on the right for more info. Basically you float another balloon upwards that's got a bit of sticky tape on it. Just make sure you have a long string attached to it so you can pull it down. Then maneouvre it so the first balloon sticks to it, then pull both of em down.

[@stephenanderson4397]

i am master of that act of balloon retrieval i have been doing it for years

[@debrarahman8374]

why are you doing that to the thomas balloon