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Water Rings On Wood Furniture Remover Recipe

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How to make it

  • Locate ring from leaving your favorite ice tea or other cold drink that has now left a water mark on your Grandmother's passed down antique table top.
  • Grab full fat mayonnaise (miracle whip ok too here folks)
  • Spread 2 tablespoons of mayonnaise covering water ring.
  • Gently place paper towel over water ring and slabbed on mayo- it's more to remind you that the mayonnaise is there than anything else while keeping the area moist.
  • We used to leave it over night, but by 6 hours, wipe clean and voila, water ring is removed.
  • Why does this work??? The fat in the mayonnaise gently gets reabsorbed into the water ring mark leaving you and your favorite antique table top looking fantastic...
  • This is great in the summer when people forget to use coasters under their iced drinks...

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  • dinky100 15 years ago
    I will try this-- thanks for posting-- i was just stressing the other day about a table that has been in the keeping of me for my father- and my kids have left a couple marks on it!
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  • divaliscious 15 years ago
    Maybe your table is not actually stained and has bee's wax... but in fact is polyurethaned. Still with the exception of not using any full fat mayo - I don't see why this didn't work for you. I grew up with a granny owning an antique business and I learned this trick from her. It has ALWAYS worked for me and on my tables.
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  • jenam 15 years ago
    I tried your recipe to remove a ring the same day it appeared on my fabulous table - and guess what?! It made it worse. Perhaps the recipe only works on certain types of wood?
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  • nlo209 16 years ago
    Great tip. I'll save it for those times.
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  • peetabear 16 years ago
    wonder how many times I would have to put this on before the cats stop licking it up??? LOL great post
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  • pleclare 16 years ago
    Great! I will keep this!
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