<p>I’ve also used Magic Erasers on my cabinets and have been happy with the results.</p>
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<p>I use hot water, dish soap and Arm & Hammer baking soda and that works, too.</p>
<p>I also love those Magic Erasors.</p>
<p>This is a great thread!</p>
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<p>It got the grease off everything! The finish looked great.</p>
<p>Littlegreenmom - Consumer Reports said the PediEgg is one of the few informercial products that actually worked well.</p>
<p>Earlier post about bleach pens for grout and caulk.</p>
<p>Where do they sell those?</p>
<p>Thanks, Marilyn! Good to know.</p>
<p>Another product I like that is a Bissell steam mop for my floors. Works fantastic. I can mop the floor with any cleanser, and then use this and still get grunge off. It’s amazing.</p>
<p>I just got one of those little gadgets to open plastic packaging at Williams Sonoma for about 5 dollars. Love it!</p>
<p>I love goo gone, we had to use it big time when…we live on a lake—and when my dear, dear son was a pre teen he and his buddy took a Sharpie and went around the lake changing all the signs from “No dumping in the lake” to “No HUMPING in the lake”.</p>
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<p>Kajon, I hope it was your DS and his buddy who had to use it big time!</p>
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<p>Well, with your screen name in mind, I absolutely love my Bissell Little Green machine, a sort of spot cleaner for carpets (I also bought their special carpet cleaner made specially for pet stains). Got it at Costco, and when I was buying it, I had two shoppers come up and tell me that they had one and loved it. (I also had the same thing happen last week when I was buying my new Miele vacuum, which I love but I don’t think the intention of this thread is about appliances).</p>
<p>Re: the pediegg…someone at work told me about it one day…I purchased one…LOVE it…After you scratch up all the dead skin with the grater looking part you next use the attachment that looks to be very fine sand paper…Very smooth feet now! If you couple that with a parafin wax treatment I’d bet your feet would really feel fine!</p>
<p>2boysima- The bleach pens are sold at the supermarket/Target/Walmart, but they are in the laundry supplies area as they are actually made for clothing stain removal.</p>
<p>I like the Ped egg, too.</p>
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<p>Try an eraser, preferably the hard white kind you get in stationary stores (I think it’s made by Staedler).</p>
<p>I spent 2 summers on hands and knees with a weed killer, to try to kill the weeds & grass that grows between the brick on my patio and walkway. I got cramps in my thumb and fingers from hitting the spray button on the spray bottle about a million times. Didn’t make any difference what the product was - they all worked the same way, and it was a total pain. Not to mention those weed killers are expensive. </p>
<p>My mother saw me one day. And from her dear, sweet little fog of being in her 90’s and not usually 100% on point, she piped up, “why don’t you use what I always use?” “What was that, Mom?” She said - and the clouds separated and a sun beam shone down on her - “Vinegar.” </p>
<p>So I bought a cheap gallon of white vinegar, waited until we’d had no rain for a couple of days so the weeds were thirsty, then I dumped the vinegar over everything - bricks and all. No weeds! No dangerous poisons, no dead butterflies, no harm to the bricks, no sore fingers - just, no weeds. Great stuff. </p>
<p>The only side effect is that you develop a craving for salad that night.</p>
<p>The Magic Rub eraser (for pencil marks)? Works well on paper, but I never thought of using it on a wall.</p>
<p>I have never thought of vinegar for weeds. I am going to try that!</p>
<p>I have used salt on the slugs, but that always makes me a little sad. Seems so cruel, but then, those little slugs don’t seem to care about my garden, either!</p>
<p>Appliances aren’t probably the intention of the thread, but any way we can help our fellow posters find a better cleaner/device/product, it’s got to be a good thing! (I had a little green steam cleaner too, back when we had carpet. My screenname preceded my purchase of that appliance, though!)</p>
<p>I’ve been CAREFULLY using our box cutter to open those darned plastic clamshell casings around products. Whenever I have a hard time opening a product, I swear under my breath that I’d like to hang the package designer by a part of their anatomy …</p>
<p>Vinegar works great as a window cleaner, to clean out the gunk in your microwave (heat up, first), to take out the copper deposits in chlorine-saturated hair for light haired folks, too. </p>
<p>When your drains are slow, pour a half a cup or so of baking soda down the drain, then follow it with a cup of vinegar as a chaser. It’s like a fun science experiment. Cleans the drains, and it is non-toxic, too.</p>
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<p>Ha! Someone on CC told me about using vinegar on the moss growing in between my pavers a few years ago, and I do it every spring. Works great. However, it seems as if the vinegar leaves a very slight whitish film on some of the bricks, so I do still put it in a spray bottle, and just squirt it where I see the moss growing.</p>
<p>Does anyone have any ideas for toilet bowls that have rings? I think they are water deposits. I’ve tried CLR, vinegar, Waterworks… Also we have tough water spots on shower doors. Short of replacing these I don’t know what to do.</p>