Who knew?

I learned a very useful tidbitof information yesterday that I thought I'd just quickly pass on. As you know I've been crafting and sewing and painting and building and creating. Just as I finished painting a bench for my entry the other day it started to rain. My older son, ever the gentleman, helped me carry it into the house and out of the rain. In the process he got a stripe of white paint on his brand new jeans. YIKES! Here's where the "tidbit" comes in. Are you ready?

HAND SANITIZER REMOVES DRIED PAINT!

I know - I didn't believe it either. This was latex paint that had been drying for about 5 days. Squirt the alcohol-based hand-sanitizer onto the paint and scrub gently with an old toothbrush. You'll see the paint just dissolve and disappear. You might have to do it twice, and you're going to want to wash the item afterwards, but it took the paint right out of the jeans. There: now isn't that something you can use?

disclaimer: you might want to test for colorfastness (is that a word?) and potential damage before you use this on a silk blouse or a hand-knit sweater or something, but on jeans it was amazing.