The fight for the top spot

I will be honest.  I am not very good at knowing what will clean certain hard to clean places around the house.  But, I am learning.  Several years ago I was introduced to Magic Eraser.  Many of you are probably smiling.  This thing is A-Maze-ing.  Bathrooms, crayon on the walls, kitchen grease grime above the stove, refrigerator handle, etc, etc, etc... are now so much easier to clean.  I don't know how the world ever lived without Magic Eraser. 

A couple of years ago I was trying to figure out how to clean that blasted toilet ring.  I had tried so many things, so many different [expensive] cleaners.  Someone told me to use a pumice stone.  Huh?  Like I use on my feet?  Yes, they said.  I thought, no way.  That will scratch my toilet, are you kidding?  But one day I tried very gently, and yeah, didn't work.  Fast forward a few years and someone tells me about the pumice stone again and I relate my story.  That's when I found out that no, you don't use the kind intended for your feet, but a special cleaning pumice stone that costs all of $1.88 at Walmart.  When we were cleaning up our rental house, I decided to give it a try for the first time.  And.... it was totally amazing!  The stone kind of crumbles away as you rub it on and away goes the toilet ring.  I used it on some hard water spots around the edges of my bathtub, and same thing, it took them right off.  I was so excited.  Magic Eraser had failed me in these areas.  My top cleaning product was in serious danger of getting bumped from the top spot.

That brings us to today.  Natalie wanted her fingernails painted.  As we were sitting down and laying out newspaper, Natalie decided that she wanted to help by opening the fingernail polish.  I told her no, but not realizing she had already done it... I'm not sure exactly what happened, but the fingernail polish ended up getting spilled.  Some of it, about smudged dime size, ended up on my wood kitchen chair.  You can't use fingernail polish remover to clean up wood.  But, guess what?  Magic Eraser took it off!  I was amazed yet again.  So, for the day, Magic Eraser is back on top.  You know, the real winner would be the one that can take the fingernail polish off my $70 Gap jeans. 

*(I feel like I have to explain why I have such expensive jeans.  I generally buy really cheap clothes.  But after years of crappy jeans that don't fit right, I decided to try expensive ones.  And I love them.  And since I only buy 1-2 pairs every three or four years and they are the only pants I wear, I feel like the price is worth it.)