Tide-to-Go

I just used Tide-to-Go on a Tide-to-Go stain... LOL..!

I originally had a month old stain on my tie and was going to take it to the dry cleaners to have the stain removed, but somehow the tie managed to sit on my futon for weeks even when I actually did dry cleaning last week... Subconsciously I told myself, "Hell no... I ain't spendin' another $3 on this tie! Over my dead body!" Well, I'm not THAT cheap. :)

Prior to this "over my dead body" episode, I actually had taken the tie to the dry cleaners for a prior stain. The stain came out just fine, but the very first time that I wore it again, clumsy me, had to drip some A1 sauce on it during a lunch meeting with my boss... needless to say, she looked at me and probably thought, "I can't take you anywhere and now you have to walk around at the Exchange with that brown stain on your tie hanging near your crotch."

I felt obligated to dry clean the tie because it's actually one of my favorites and it did come from an ex.... so, it automatically carried a loaded guilt trip if I never wore it again.

After hearing about Tide-to-Go and the wonders it did on *GUM*... I figured, I might as well spend the $3.49 plus tax to try it...

So it works... on the stain that is... the directions said to press down on the tip to release the liquid and then to rub the tip on the stain in a circular motion... I did. The problem... the stain is gone, but now I have a quarter sized stain mark left behind from the liquid of Tide-to-Go instead of a pea size brown stain. :T sigh... So, I rubbed Tide-to-Go on the Tide-to-Go stain... and now I have a half dollar... :( If I repeat the steps again... I'm gonna have one of those super-sized souvenir penny stains! :(

And the worst part of it all... I actually wore the tie to work today (covering the stain strategically)... just so that I could deliberately make the stain bigger... while paying $3.49 plus tax.