Rant: The cork board at my laundromat turned into a free advice column

There's this big cork board by the dryers at Suds 'n Stuff on Elm Street, and for months people kept pinning up complaints about stain removal. Last week I finally taped a 3x5 card with my grandma's recipe for getting red wine out of cotton using salt and club soda. The next day, someone wrote 'works on coffee too!' on a sticky note and stuck it right next to mine. Now there's like 15 tips on there from different people, eggshell to grass stains. Has anyone else seen a community board turn into something way more useful than whoever hung it up probably expected?

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brian30321d ago

Yeah those little unofficial info exchanges pop up everywhere when you start looking. There's a dry erase board at my local hardware store that started with just the weekly sales and now its covered in people's tricks for unclogging drains and the best way to hang a shelf without studs. Thrift stores too, I've seen tags on furniture with notes from customers saying "this couch is sturdy, we had it ten years" or "the zipper on this cushion broke after a month." People just naturally want to save each other from making the same mistakes they did. It's like these boards become little archives of everyday genius that nobody planned but everybody needed.

the_nathan26d ago

Baking soda and vinegar paste works miracles on armpit stains on white shirts. Throw that up there for the crew.

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