The Random Questions thread

A restaurant supply place, if not Amazon. Or Wal-Mart. When we sourced D2’s pre wedding dinner, lots of deals.

@doschicos, I would check out ebay. A lot of vendors list their stuff there at excellent prices. Wide variety of options. I bought cloths for my church there.

Dang. We just got rid of 10 solid color tablecloths! I would have sent them to you!

Maybe we could start a thread listing supplies for graduations, weddings, etc. that we have on hand?

Kind of like the in loco parentis thread! :slight_smile:

BB was already very generous in giving my daughter a beautiful winter coat. I think a giving thread would be great!

This isn’t a question, but I didn’t know where else to post it.

I just got a spam message in my email. The subject line says,

It made me laugh so hard I almost spit out my coffee.

It’s an actual thing apparently, as long as users are cool with the human workers viewing the photos:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/nov/07/facebook-revenge-porn-nude-photos

Interesting job. X_X

Jeez. I’m flabbergasted. Aren’t mothers telling their kids not to have nude pictures taken of them in the first place?

Australia.
You don’t need human intervention (on the fb side) to make this work.

And don’t forget celebs or models who may jys t want to control a copyright.

Let’s talk about my couch – a subject of great interest to me.

Our youngest dog peed on the cushion and then, when we took the cushion off the couch, on the muslin part of the upholstery. So the couch stinks.

I’ve had it cleaned and deodorized, and that only worked for a while. It stinks again. Even though I had it recovered about two years ago, I’m thinking that I should have the entire thing recovered again – including have all the stuffing, etc., replaced.

Do you think that will that eliminate the stink? Has anyone had a similar experience??

I had a sort of foster pug that peed on the skirt area of a couple of club chairs, and also on the LR rug. I was able to eradicate the stink with two or three repeated soakings with Nature’s Miracle. I’d give it a whirl.

Otherwise, it sounds to me as if you are talking complete reupholstery.

When you soaked it, @consolation, did you just spray it on the skirt, or did you actually submerge it in the stuff?

@VeryHappy , I sprayed it heavily. The skirt has a tailored look, and is constructed of heavy upholstery fabric, front and back, possibly with some stiffening element sandwiched between them. There is basically a heavy flap on each side, with a piece of the same fabric underneath concealing the leg at each corner, so that it looks as if it is pleated but it isn’t.

Anyway, I figured that the stuff would penetrate as much as the pee would if sprayed heavily. It did take at least two applications to eradicate the odor. Previously, I had noticed the odor when there was dampness in the air. I hadn’t realized that he had done this until then, or I would have treated it immediately. Little devil. :smiley:

Yeah, they’re all little devils. Except for when they’re little angels.

Nature’s Miracle never did it, for us. It matters what the dog eats, how fast you catch the stain, etc. In terms of stink, yes, even the weather. I’m about to throw out a rug that I’ve satisfactorily cleaned a lot. It’s fine 11 months of the year, then the humid days come. Luckily, this was a $100 sale purchase.

I swear by vodka. Not to drink, although that can help too! Buy cheap vodka, put it in a sprayer bottle and soak the area completely. I have used it on carpet that was urine soaked, a chair in an aunt’s home where she was a heavy smoker and on the underarms of dance costumes. It may need more than 1 application. My SIL uses febreeze on upholstery and says it works well.

Lol, I tried vodka. And gin. Maybe what I bought was too cheap. Tried venegar. Hung the rugs outside, let it rain on them (some regional folks swear there’s something about overnight hanging and rain that works miracles.)

Febreeze won’t touch that kind of scent. I’ve tried it.