I wanted to share with you something I learned recently from my friend Google.
It was my birthday on Saturday. My parents and sisters came to visit me this past weekend to celebrate. As I was cleaning up in preparation, I moved a plant from the wood window seat to it's proper plant stand. I had watered it about a week earlier, in the kitchen sink, and left it there while it drained. It got moved to the kitchen counter shortly after that but I had apparently not moved it back to its proper place and my boyfriend moved it to the window seat. It sat there for several days until I finally got to moving it back. I was horrified when I discovered a very visible ring of water where the plant had been. See, my mom has a thing about my putting plants on the window seat. She warned me that I'd ruin it. I was more worried about her thinking/saying "I told you so" than the actual spot. I'm sure you know how that is.
So I got a little upset. And I think my boyfriend felt pretty bad. So he immediately ran to the laptop and googled. He came across a couple of different solutions, and we decided to try one. And not 5 minutes later the mark was gone. Completely.
What did we do? We grabbed a plain white cotton t-shirt, plugged in the iron, put it on a low setting and ran the iron across the t-shirt above the spot.
I wanted to share this little nugget of information with my mom when she came, but then I'd have to admit that we messed up in the first place.
What nifty little pieces of information have you picked up from Google recently? How has Google saved you from in a jam?
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