To help his daughter, Sienna, celebrate her birthday in lockdown, Smith contacted a friend and owner of Ball Mania to transform their front room into their very own ball pit.
£260 and a very excited daughter later, Smith told LadBible: "I thought, 'What can I do to make her birthday/half term fun? How can you make home more fun?'"
"I ordered 26,000 and I couldn't get them through the door. I had to shovel them in saucepans and all sorts into the house.
"I've still got two bags in my garage that I can't put in the house, otherwise they would be to the ceiling.
"They arrived in massive building sand bags, we opened one up and they all ran down the street. All the neighbours were scooping them up.
"Then we decided to get buckets and pots and pans. But no one's allowed in the house so we were passing them down a line."
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