Clean Your Wedding Rings at Home

I have been saying that I need to take my rings in to get cleaned for about two years.  I used to use jewelry cleaner, but then that got gross so I tossed it.  After that I didn’t really do anything and my rings have gotten pretty grimy.

I decided that I should try to clean it at home since I might never actually take it in to get cleaned!

I wish you could see the gunk stuck in and around my diamond before I cleaned them.  The pictures do not quite grasp the disgustingness.

I mixed 3 parts hot water to one part dishwasher detergent {you don’t need very much} and gave it a good swirl.  Then I dropped in my rings and let them sit in there for at least an hour.  You can do it longer, I was just really impatient.  You can leave it in there overnight.

I took them out and used a soft bristled toothbrush to scrub them a bit, but I could tell as soon as I took them out they already looked a bazillion times better!  I scrubbed away a little bit more and then rinsed them off and let them dry. 
I can’t believe it actually worked!  I seriously thought I needed professional help to get these suckers clean!


In some of the pictures it’s hard to see the difference so I hope you can tell.  It’s totally worth the minimal effort that it takes to clean your rings this way!

Ta-Da!! I hope you’ll try it!  Let me know if you do!

Pinterest Test Lab: Cleaning the Shower Floor

I totally didn’t mean to announce my new series and then not mention it again for weeks…oops.  Time got away from me!  But that doesn’t mean I haven’t been busy testing and doing the projects I’ve pinned!  I also want to say that I would love to make this into a linky party where all of you can share things you’ve tested or done from pins on Pinterest!  So I’m thinking next week I will share some more ideas and then at the end of the week you can share yours!  I will make a grab button that you can include on your test lab posts just like I have done above and then join my party!

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Now I’m going to share my dirty little secret…no judging!

We’ve lived in our house for going on 4 years in August.  And the bottom of my shower has been impossible to get clean in all that time!  There’s been a ring of dirt that I couldn’t get off no matter what product I used or how much I scrubbed and scrubbed…and scrubbed…and scrubbed…I’d pretty much given up hope.

THEN one day I came across {this} pin, Marissa, from Finely Ground, gave me just the solution I’d been searching for!  She tested lots of natural remedies and found the answer…

20 Mule Team Borax.

I took a picture of the bottom of my shower after scrubbing half of it with this awesome stuff:

It was amazing!

Now, I will say I still had to scrub…a lot.  But nothing else I’ve ever scrubbed with even made the slightest difference.  Now it’s totally clean and {almost} like new!  So nice to finally get rid of that ring of dirt!

Borax is really cheap {found in the laundry aisle} and can be used for dozens of cleaning duties!   So go get some and start cleaning something!