Product Placement

And now ... a bunch of useful stuff I love.

Duco cement, the world's perfect glue, fixes everything around the house from cracked coffee canisters to busted keyboard space bars.



There's no pleasant way to bring up nasty yellow armpit stains on your favorite shirt. Fortunately you don't have to pitch it. Just soak the stains in a concentrated solution of Oxi Clean and hot water for an hour it's good as new. I haven't found a stain yet on which this does not work.



Ever wonder why orange juice tastes nasty after you brush your teeth? I can't stand the way most toothpaste ruins my palette for as much as an hour after I use it. That's why I love Tom's of Maine Toothpaste. The taste of this stuff is mild and fades in just a few minutes.



Just as I began to despair that my favorite shiny sneakers and comfy sandals were coming apart, I remembered that my Dad use to use Shoe Goo to fix his tennis shoes after ripping them to shreds on the court.



I squirted the stuff into the split seams and put the shoes under the legs of my dining room table to create pressure.



The paper is to keep the goo off the floor.



One day later, my shoes were good as new.

Hooray!

So where do I pickup the check for my celebrity endorsements?

Industrial Revolution Nostalgia

I was in a shoe repair shop today. Between the awesome old machinery
and smell of leather these places always make me nostalgic for my
grandfather's upholstery workshop.