Home Remedy

Friday I went to Mack's class party with him. Jason was home with Piper. Since he works third shift, he sleeps during the day. So he snoozed on the couch while she played. We've done this in the past and it's always worked out very well. Take Mack out of the equation and little miss Piper is perfectly happy to entertain herself with coloring or Polly Pockets or other such things.

She entertained herself on Friday with coloring alright. Coloring herself and the walls in the living room with an INK PEN. The ink came off her skin easily enough with warm water and soap. The walls? Not so much! First I tried a Clorox wipe, knowing that would be too good to be true. Next I tried Windex. The blue streaks laughed at me. So I grabbed the Clorox Clean-Up (which is essentially bleach). I'm pretty sure I heard a "Nice try." come out of the bottle as I furiously scrubbed. I followed this with an attempt using Dawn Dish Detergent. Go ahead...roll your eyes.

Several years ago, I was doing laundry and discovered an ink pen in the dryer...because there was ink all over the clothes and all over the inside of the dryer. Someone told me then to use hairspray to get the ink out of the clothes and off the interior of the dryer. It worked! While trying all these other methods on my wall, the hairspray idea was in the back of my mind. But I was afraid it would leave a sticky film on the wall (yeah...because THAT is more difficult to remove than INK, right?! NOT. Don't judge me...I was in the heat of battle!). Once all else failed, I grabbed the hairspray. The ink wiped off just like magic. And the Clorox wipe took care of the sticky film.

SO...if you have a situation where you need to remove ink from a wall, a dryer, clothes, what-have-you...save yourself the trouble and go right for the hairspray!!