tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59024673546551222042024-03-13T11:30:33.413-07:00The Pinteresting TruthRepinned and Revealed!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13196639945549753392noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5902467354655122204.post-59758966760222894812013-09-19T22:24:00.002-07:002013-09-19T22:24:43.413-07:00Mirror Paper Organizer<br />
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Today, I will be reviewing the most amazing pin I've tested yet! It is a mirrored paper organizer to help keep track of those random notes, bills, etc. that you really need to keep right in front of your face. The reason why this pin is soooo amazing is because it's mine! *Big cheese* Ok, honestly, it's not the most inventive thing in the world and I didn't actually take the time to make it artsy at all. It was quick and dirty... but effective! My husband is a real estate agent who likes to print out home listings and leave the printouts all over the house. One day I'd had enough of having our daily "Babe, is this a toss or keep page?" conversation and decided I wanted a quick solution that was functional but most importantly cheap. Sooo, I came up with this little number.<br />
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Mirror (Big Lots)<br />
Hemp Twine (Artco Crafts)<br />
Mini Paperclips (Artco Crafts)<br />
Button Magnets* (Dollar Tree)<br />
<em>*There's no reason the buttons need to be magnetic. I just happened to have these from a DIY toddler activity game.</em><br />
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There really wasn't much to this and I think the pictures are pretty self explanatory. As I mentioned the button magnets were just something I had lying around. I super glued the twine to the buttons first with a little dot in the center on the back side. Then after that dried, I added more glue to the outer parts of the back of the magnet and stuck it to the mirror. A few key things to remember with this project is to make sure to use as little super glue as possible to make the mounting pieces- in my case, the magnetic buttons- stick as flatly to the mirror as possible. Second, the twine needs to be taut to handle the weight of whatever you hang from the paper clips. <br />
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This project took me about 15 minutes and cost me $11. Like I said... quick and dirty but so far it's working so I'm calling this one a Success!<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13196639945549753392noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5902467354655122204.post-60581157889084298132013-06-08T22:24:00.000-07:002013-06-08T22:28:56.283-07:00How NOT to Clean Your Pillows!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<u>THE IDEA:</u></div>
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Lovely fresh clean pillows</div>
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<u>THE CLAIM:</u></div>
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A couple spins through the washing machine will clean your pillows of accumulated allergens, dust, bacteria, mold, and dead skin cells</div>
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<u>THE RESULT:</u></div>
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<b><span style="color: magenta;">FAIL!</span></b></div>
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For anyone who was like me and really wanted this to be as simple as it sounded, I'm afraid you're going to be sorely disappointed! This pin experiment was a disaster and a half! The details given about why it's so necessary to wash our pillows gets you pumped up to do it. When you actually stop to think about all the dead skin cells and dust that accumulate in/on your pillows month after month after month, it's almost nauseating. It's like when you read those articles about how your laptop keys and cell phone screens are actually some of the nastiest, most bacteria ridden things we use on a regular basis. Gross! The beginning of the post for this pin read much the same way, leaving you ready to jump up and wash your pillows right then and there!<br />
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The process sounded simple enough. Basically, you're supposed to squish out as much air as possible from your pillows before sticking them in the wash, making sure to use 2 pillows for balance. Run a full cycle then run a secondary spin cycle to get rid of the excess moisture....... The excess moisture... I'll say that again... The "<i>excess</i>" moisture. (We'll get back to that.) After the wash, you put 2 tennis balls into 2 socks and toss the pillows into the dryer. The instructions allow for the possibility of a "few cycles" for the pillows to be thoroughly dry. A <i>few</i> was the understatement of the century!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2 tennis balls to help beat out moisture. 2 white socks to prevent color transfer from the yellow tennis balls.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is what the floor looked like after pulling out one of my pillows after the full cycle and before the follow up spin cycle.</td></tr>
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Now... before I go off sounding like I'm bashing the originator of this pin, I will say that the post expressly talks about what type of pillows are best for the machine washing method and which aren't. Unfortunately, however, I DO in fact have polyester pillows which was on the "OK" list to toss in the washing machine. Even more than that, you'll see in the pic below, the instructions on the manufacturer's tag are pretty much the exact instructions given in the post! SO, while the instructions were in fact correct for the pillows I used, they just flat out didn't work!<br />
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I washed 3 pillows. The 2 with the gray chevron stripes on them did dry a bit quicker at about 4 cycles in the dryer. However, those are my crap pillows. I bought them on sale at Target and they are the worst, most pointless pillows I've ever purchased. They lost their fluff within a week. So, in my opinion they should not have taken 4 cycles to dry. The other plain, water logged white one, took 5 dryer cycles and even after the 5th still felt damp so I left it to dry for 2 days! I suppose the part of the manufacturer's instructions that say "Allow pillow to dry thoroughly" doesn't say how long that should be, right? WHATEVER!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Unconvinced, that the follow-up spin cycle would remove enough moisture, I had the Hubs help me squeeze out some water before tossing the pillow into the dryer... I was right.</td></tr>
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If you wanna get technical, the pin was in fact successful in that any visible stains (aka drool spots!) were removed and the pillows did smell fresh and clean. BUT, the process of getting these pillows completely dry in the end is not something I would feel confident wasn't going to result in mold growth days later! <br />
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IF, I was to try this again, I think for thicker pillows it would be smart to do 2 spin cycles after the full cycle, as opposed to the 1 spin cycle that was recommended. And I'd want to leave the pillows <i>outside</i> to air dry after 2-3 spins in the dryer. It was recommended that you wash your pillows 3 times a year. PASS!
After the hassle of trying to wash them this time, I think I'll just take my butt
down to Big Lots or Target and buy new ones instead! My time is worth the $9.99 each pillow costs! <br />
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If you've ever had to toss a <b><span style="color: orange;">favorite</span></b> shirt that was in decent
condition aside from a couple annoying armpit stains, you'll be pleased
to know you may not have to do that with your next shirt! I had a
feeling that mixing dawn and peroxide might actually do the trick on
dingy armpit stains, especially when amped up by baking soda which is
what the <a href="http://www.onegoodthingbyjillee.com/2011/11/goodbye-to-yellow-armpit-stains.html" target="_blank">original pinner</a> did so I did as well! What I didn't anticipate
is how well it would work on old, seemingly set in stains! I tested the
pin on several different articles of clothing and admittedly there were a
couple shirts, my husband's Element tee below being one of them, that
needed to be treated twice. However, that t-shirt is ancient so the fact
that the mix worked at all is still a success in my book even if I did
have to go through the process twice. Honestly, doing it twice wasn't
because it didn't work at all. It was simply so I could say that I
brought the tee <b><span style="color: orange;">"back to white</span><span style="color: orange;">"</span></b>. The stain was mostly removed after the
first treatment and the very slight amount of dingy remnant was
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I thought I'd try working out the pit stains on a colored shirt so I chose one of Hubby's old sky blue Hurley tees. Can't even tell there was ever an armpit stain at all can ya?<br />
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At the end of part 1 of this experiment, I was sure this was going to be another big fat FAIL. On day 7, the vinegar in the jars weren't changing color anymore than they had on day 2. Vinegar and steel wool alone was supposed to produce a reddish hue. <br />
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The tea stain color was just supposed to give off an obvious tea colored shade and the coffee was the same (only it was supposed to present with black not dark brown.) The pennies and vinegar mix was supposed to reveal a pale Caribbean blue stain.<br />
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I waited a full week, per the pin-structions! In my mind the natural wood stain idea was a failure already but alas an interesting turn of events happened that day. I liberally applied each each stain in sections to an unfinished piece of pine wood board. I left it alone for a few minutes and came back to see if there were any noticeable pigments. In the photo below it was just one heavy coat of each stain in the process of drying.</div>
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At this point, there wasn't anything too impressive going on. The steel wool stain wasn't looking reddish at all, but instead more of what I'd describe as a dark green tea type of color. The tea stain (which was actually an herbal green tea blend) looked very similar to the steel wool only stain. The pennies honestly just looked like wet board. There really was no color to it and I just assumed that once it fully dried it wouldn't show much color at all. The coffee stain did in fact come out the darkest, appearing pale black as it was supposed to.</div>
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I tried to get a good picture but it was overcast and I don't have the greatest camera in the world (someday!) so we'll try to work with this. The tea and coffee remained the same shade just darker. The steel wool did begin to show a bit of red when compared with the tea, but definitely not enough for me to call it a "reddish" stain color. Now the pennies surprised me a bit and this is the one where the picture just doesn't do it justice. The penny stain actually did have a slight blue tint to it. The color that's there, while it does just seem like a darkened wet spot is actually a blueish wet spot. I definitely didn't see that happening based on what was sitting in the jar!</div>
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About 20 minutes later I noticed the colors in the jar had changed. It would seem that once each stain was exposed to the air, all the ingredients started to work together to do what they were supposed to! </div>
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Check out the progression of the steel wool only stain:</div>
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Below you can see what they all looked like in the end. You can see the darkened effect after the stains have fully oxidized and shaken up a bit. The steel wool only stain just looks muddy instead of reddish but it still showed reddish when applied to the wood.</div>
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The point is, though, that... It worked! See below how the colors totally changed from the initial coat?! I applied 2 coats of each stain <i>after</i> they had oxidized which makes 3 total coats. The skinny sections to the right are 1 heavy coat each because I was interested to see what 1 single coat <i>would</i> have looked like had I known how air exposure would effect the color of each stain!</div>
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A couple interesting things to note: The pennies did in fact present with a "pale Caribbean blue" type of hue, but it was <i>so</i> pale that you'd likely need way too many coats to make it worth your while. On the far right of the board are just the tea and coffee stains alone with no steel wool. Clearly, steel wool is the way to go if you want sufficient pigment! </div>
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So there you have it! The natural wood stain using a steel object soaked in vinegar was a SUCCESS! Steel wool gave the best, most reliable result. Me, personally, I'd skip the pennies all together and I definitely wouldn't waste my time using only tea or only coffee. But if you'd like to play around with a fun, non toxic stain option that actually works. Give it a try. Just make sure you let that stuff breathe a little!</div>
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To test this idea I made a few dents in an unfinished wood shelf I had never actually put up. I made 3 separate dents trying to keep them at varying degrees of depth. I just used a cheap wash rag I had lying around and our crappy old iron. I started out with just a mildly damp rag but after a few passes I realized that it needed to be thoroughly damp, almost wet for this to really work. <br />
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This is the 2nd dent which was the deepest. </div>
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And this was the 3rd which ended up with a chip I ended up picking out of the middle but otherwise the depth of the dent was between the other two.</div>
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I took my wash rag, wet it, and dripped water over each dent completely covering them.</div>
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The instructions said to turn the iron temperature on high and press in circular motions, making sure to create enough steam.</div>
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These are the results for Dent #1. For this dent the results were quite impressive. The dent came up completely only leaving a slight mark showing where the dent originally was.</div>
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Where's the dent? Can you tell where it was? The remnants of it are technically there but it came up so well that it's barely visible!</div>
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Just for the sake of showing how well it worked. I grabbed a 120 grit sanding sponge I had been using for a different project and spent about 15 seconds sanding out the little mark that was left.</div>
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And now the results of Dent #2! This one was the deepest one so while it did improve, it didn't take the dent away completely. I honestly wasn't really expecting it to because the implication from the description of the pin was that this method would work on more minor dents.</div>
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Finally, Dent #3. This one also came out completely. The section in the middle was the chip so if you'll notice, everything around it is no longer indented.</div>
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So, overall it seems this method would work quite well for a dent in your hardwood, coffee table, or whatever other wood furniture you have with minor dents in it. Not gonna lie, after this worked out so well I started going around my house with that damp rag leaving wafts of steam everywhere I went!</div>
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According to the pin I found, all you need is<em> real</em> steel wool and vinegar. You can use either white distilled vinegar or apple cider vinegar. Since I had plently of white distilled vinegar, I went with that. The idea is that varying metal objects will create different hues when mixed with the vinegar. The pin in question stated that steel wool alone would create a "rich reddish hue", a handful of pennies mixed with vinegar would create a "pale caribbean blue" shade, and a combination of tea and a metal object (I just used steel wool again) would create a black stain. For the vinegar based stains the instructions recommend leaving the stain in a glass container for a week for full results. So for part 1, we will just be looking at what happened on Day 1.<br />
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Allegedly, an important step to getting a good stain with the quickest results is to wash the oils off the steel wool before mixing it with the vingear. *Tip: Use gloves when doing this step. You'll notice I didn't and the fine strands of the steel wool were a tad bit sharp and irritating to my fingers.</div>
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As I was making the stains I realized LATER that the pin listed coffee and tea separately from the vinegar. All my stains in the photos below... have vinegar. So in part 2 of this review, I'll be adding the separate coffee and tea stains since those don't require any wait time. It may be interesting to see if the vinegar has any unique effects to each.<br />
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As you can see after only a few minutes both the tea (2nd one in) and the coffee (3rd one in) have already started changing color. *Side note: For the coffee, I emptied a tea bag and refilled it with coffee grounds. <br />
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After a 20 minute time lapse:</div>
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So far no color change for the steel wool and the pennies. We'll see what happens in a week!</div>
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A simple spot remover using hand sanitizer</h3>
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I tested 4 different types of pens: ball point, felt tip, gel, and a highlighter. This was definitely one of those pins that I anticipated getting unimpressive results with, but I was a bit suprised in the end. <br />
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I grabbed one of my Hub's old softball tourney tees (the ugliest one I could find! How'd I do??) and went to work marking it up. Since the pin was quite generalized saying simply " remove <em>ink</em>" I figured I'd go with all the kinds I had in my desk.</div>
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Next, I applied a liberal amount of hand sanitizer to each marking on the shirt... a VERY liberal amount. I wanted to make sure to get full coverage and make sure each spot was fully saturated. I left it on for 10 minutes exactly and washed as usual.</div>
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As you can see the gel pen and highlighter marks were removed completely without a trace! The ball point and felt tip? Not so much! The felt tip was the least affected by the hand sanitzier, though the ball point was not far behind. So there you have it! Based on what type of ink is on your shirt this could really be considered a success OR a failure so you can decide how to grade this one!</div>
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I have a 2 1/2 year old boxer named Samson. Part of the appeal of getting a boxer was that they are short haired dogs that don't shed much. Well, my guy sheds... a lot! I have a feeling he probably needs to be brushed more often, but I usually leave the dog grooming up to the Hubs. ;) Anyhow, my fabulously spoiled dog looooves to lounge on the couch with Daddy. Daddy, of course loves it equally as much!<br />
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Mommy, while thinking the whole man and best friend snuggling <em>is</em> super cute, isn't a huge fan of all the lovely doggy hairs left behind! Nevertheless, it made for a great setting to test out this pin.<br />
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While the damp rubber glove technically did get some hairs off the couch, it wasn't enough for me to be able to call this a success. I'm sure the idea is that most people have rubber dishwashing gloves in their kitchen already so it would be simpler and cheaper than buying a lint roller. But frankly, considering how well this DIDN'T work, I'll spend the money on the lint roller thank you very much. I actually think it's likely that a dampened dish towel would have worked much better. So, I'm calling this one a big fat FAIL! At least on my couch. Maybe it might be worth a try on a microfiber couch instead???</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13196639945549753392noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5902467354655122204.post-7465759178190041642012-11-14T17:58:00.001-08:002012-11-14T18:02:35.552-08:00All Natural Pimple Treatment<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Apple cider vinegar (ACV) diluted with a little water then applied topically to a pimple and allowed to sit for 15 minutes (then rinse) will clear up the breakout</h3>
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I actually kinda thought the ACV treatment would have worked but alas... it DID NOT! I was conveniently having a breakout when I came across this pin so I thought, "Hey, why not try it!" The only problem was when this didn't work, I had to walk around for a day with an attractive couple of white heads on my face that I REALLY wanted to pop but for the sake of testing out this natural pimple treatment I couldn't!<br />
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I applied with watered down ACV twice a day and left it on for 15 minutes at a time then rinsed it off. The 2nd time I applied in the day, I washed my face after and then went to bed. I did this for 2 days, initially planning to do it for 3 days, but I couldn't handle walking around with the giant white head you'll see below!!!</div>
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Look at that crap!!! Basically the ACV and water did absolutely nothing. My pimple went through the same process it would normally go through if I had left it alone. </div>
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The 2nd one didn't get a big white head but there was also zero improvement.</div>
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For me to consider a pimple treatment effective it has to show improvement at least by the end of the 2nd day. This did not. So by day 3, I was over it! I popped that sucker, put my <a href="http://www.supersup.com/home-health-blemish-treatment-lotion-4-fl-oz-lotion-118-ml-318858120123" rel="nofollow">Home Health Blemish Treatment Lotion</a> on it ($5.99 at Super Supplements), and the next day it was nearly gone.</div>
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