If you spill tiny sead beads an there's to many to pick up cover your vac hose an suck em up!

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I spilled tons of tiny little beads, and I used a thin dishtowl to ocver the vac hose and sucked up all the beads, and they were held in place and not sucked into the hose. This tip is also good to use with thin panty hose for vaccuming stuffed toys or delicate brickabrack.