Wednesday, August 1st, 2007...2:20 pm
let this be a lesson for you all
Washable Watercolor Wands = EVIL
Kid loves painting, painting paper, skin, floor, tables, walls. After much screaming and time-out placements, we thought we were past this. Now, paints are confiscated contraband. Why? See this bad, bad product?
You would imagine that “washable” meant easily removed from surfaces with water, right? Oh, no, my friend. That is where you would be wrong. “Washable” means scrubbing until your joints ache, and then applying a new base primer coat of white over the affected portion of the wall, followed by a fresh coat of the color of your choice. Washable in terms of the other paint you splatter on yourself as you clean up this mess on your wall. Not this stuff. This stuff appears on certain cave walls in the southwest. That’s how permanent it is. 
This stuff, brought to you by Benjamin Moore, as in the paint you have to buy to cover up the “washable” stuff. Co-conspirators, no doubt.
Cute, little sponges on colorful, little sticks. Don’t fall for it.
Go back to the drippy pots and shedding brushes.
Learn. Evolve.
[PS, I've just been informed by DH that shellacking will first be necessary as initial prep (rot roh!)......washable, my ass! Well, that IS washable, ordinarily, with a minimum of scrubbing.]
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6 Comments
August 1st, 2007 at 6:04 pm
Cost of vasectomy = $4,000
Peace of mind that comes from having unsullied walls in my home = Priceless
August 1st, 2007 at 7:21 pm
I feel your pain Wendy. Been burned on the whole washable thing myself.
I bet if you were to call the makers they would say something like, “Of course it’s washable! You can wash it all you like and it won’t go away!…..Oh you thought we meant *washable*as in *removable*? Ha Ha Ha!”
August 1st, 2007 at 7:35 pm
co-conspirators! that made me laugh out loud!
August 2nd, 2007 at 7:00 am
I gave up trying to have clean walls and just went with the tie-dyed, paint-spattered look throughout the house. Tempura paints aren’t much better at the “washable” claim, trust me.
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