Magic!

[firstfrost]

When I was in the CVS the other day to buy dish soap, I experimentally picked up some "magic eraser" sponges, as they said they were good for cleaning stove tops, and I was thinking that needed doing. HOLY COW THEY ARE MAGIC. They don't smell like any sort of cleaner - just a fine-textured white sponge that you get wet - but they wiped up stove grime with no scrubbing or effort or anything. I randomly cleaned off the side of the fridge that has been accumulating little spatters for forever. I wrote on the wall with a Sharpie (just to see) and wiped it off - okay, that took more than one pass, but it still didn't require *scrubbing*. What the heck is *in* these things? I suspect nanites. (Wikipedia tells me it is "melamine foam".)

I'm kind of embarassed to be so agog over a cleaning supply, having been raised to think that there is no such thing as a soap or detergent or cleanser or cleaner or powder or paste or wax or bleach, that will make cleaning fun.... but, you know, at least this time, especially when I was testing the Sharpie I had written on the wall with... it was fun.

Comments

[fredrickegerman.livejournal.com]

Gosh. So you use them straight, without soap etc.?

[firstfrost.livejournal.com]

Soap does not seem to be necessary.