The funnest cleaning job EVER

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OK...so after the initial craziness that followed the statement of "Mom!! Danny's gum has been smashed into the carpet for over a week!!" I went online to find out the best way to remove it. I tried freezing it to no avail. I read about trying peanut butter. So I did. This was so much fun!! It was amazing to watch the gum literally disappear under my fingers. And then once the gum was gone, I washed the spot with a liquid dish detergent and water mix and the spot was perfectly clean. This was by far the most fun I have had cleaning a potential carpet disaster!! LOL

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Cecily said…
I am glad that I have a SIL who enjoys making messes and cleaning them up. Seems to me that Danny has really been keeping you busy lately. (with the gum and the haircuts) Of course, I don't think that my children are any better about that. Love ya,
Ces
6:52 PM
Anna said…
HA! This post totally made me laugh. But I can see the enjoyment of seeing something that might be IMPOSSIBLE to remove, totally disappear!
That is pretty cool.

Love
Anna
9:12 PM
MomWoolf said…
Peanut butter is absolutely amazing! One of my kids (I think Joel) wrote with a ball point pen on the vinyl seats of a friend's brand new suburban when he was about two. She was giving me and all my kids a ride up to Utah. I was mortified! I had packed peanut butter sandwiches for my kids and I'd heard about peanut butter as a solvent. I figured it was worth a try. I took the peanut butter from the sandwiches and rubbed it really hard into the ink marks. Nothing. I felt so terrible. Hours and hours later, I looked for the ink marks and they were totally gone! Cool stuff that peanut butter.
6:40 PM
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