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Buy it on the Black Market

by Tracee Sioux on April 28th, 2007

I adore Mr. Clean’s Magic Eraser. A friend of mine used it to get Sharpie marks off her boss’s wall after bringing her kids to work for an afternoon.

So I bought it and I LOVE it. It’s a little white sponge. It’s weightless, it has no smell at all, it doesn’t engorge with water when it’s wet so it remains weightless and without smell for the duration of use. I’ve looked on the box and it has no ingredients. The only clue is that it says, “Do not mix with chlorine bleach,” so I assume there is amonia in it. But, I can’t prove it because, as I said, no smell at all.

It works so well that I believe the secret ingredient is, in fact, a little pinch of magic dust.

It easily scrubs grime from the bathtub, sinks, door jams or anywhere at all there is grime. It gets crayon, pencil, pen scribbles and off walls of any surface - and as my 5-year-old daughter can attest, even a child had enough elbow grease to use it. It cleans soot from fire or smoke damage easily. It wipes up all the goop on refridgerator shelves. I have yet to try it on anything that it doesn’t work on.

Seriously, this is the only cleaning product I buy anymore. I buy it in bulk so I don’t run out. I hate when I’m on a cleaning binge and I run out of my Magic Eraser. Be prepared for the one drawback, it disolves as you use it. I suspect they could make it so that it lasts forever, but then we wouldn’t run out and buy anymore. But it’s cheap enough, you can buy a four pack for under $4.

When you first use one be prepared to have a spring cleaning frenzy overtake you. You’ll try it on a particularly nasty job and you’ll be amazed. Then you’ll think, hey I wonder if it would get the grime off the patio chairs outside. Then you’ll hit the door jamb on the front door that perhaps isn’t so white anymore from everyone touching it day in and day out. Then you’ll be looking around your house and see all sorts of grime, grease, fingerprints, marks and smudges that you long ago stopped seeing because you tried to scrub it off and failed, so you learned to stop looking at it to save your peace of mind. But, once you suspect the Magic Eraser will work on it, you’ll all of the sudden see it and tackle it and will rejoice with a long-forgotten glee that dirt is to be conquered.

In the back of my mind I worry that maybe someday they’ll discover that whatever is in it causes cancer or some such hideous thing. But, then I think of Elaine from Seinfeld and how she ran to all the pharmacies for miles around to buy up all the sponges when they discontinued them as a birth control method.

I will be like that. I’ll order it on the Internet and buy cases of it from discount stores and I’d even buy it on the black market.

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