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I remember when the Mr. Clean Magic Eraser first came on the market. Marc immediately bought one to use on all of the dark streaks that had accumulated on the white walls of our house. I started off a skeptic, but was an immediate convert. It worked amazingly.

And it’s just gotten better over the years. I received the Mr. Clean Magic Eraser Extra Power to try out, and it works great. It removes marker, crayon, dirt, and even stuff you can’t identify. I use it to scrub my stove, and it gets off the grease.

My only complaint is about the tiny white bits that come off when scrubbing a rough surface. But they’re a small price to pay for a clean surface

Find more Works for Me Wednesday tips at Rocks in My Dryer.

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Works for Me: Mr. Clean Magic Eraser

If you think you have the following item(s), click through to the CPSC press release for more details:

Children’s Hooded Jackets with Drawstrings Recalled by Ms. Bubbles Inc. Due to Strangulation Hazard

Jardine Expands Recall of Cribs Sold by Babies R Us; Cribs Pose Entrapment and Strangulation Hazards - Click through for photos of additional styles.

As always, I highly recommend signing up for recall notifications by email at the CPSC web site.

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Two recalls today: Jackets and more Jardine cribs

As I mentioned last week, Swag Bucks is offering new ways to win bucks. I don’t know if this is going to be a daily thing, but today, the main search page says the SwagCode of the day is “freeswag.” It worked for me - I got a free Swag Buck.

We’ll just have to wait and see if there’s a free code of the day tomorrow.

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Can you believe it? We were rear-ended the week before Thanksgiving and we still don’t have our car back. The body shop has pushed their completion date back by a few days five times now for over two weeks. It’s incredibly frustrating, but we are still surviving as a one-car family, something I would not have thought possible two months ago.

However, one result of being a one-car family is that I just don’t get to the drugstores as often as I would like. I’m sure my favorite cashier at Walgreens thinks I’m dead since he hasn’t seen me since the accident, after seeing me at the same time every week for months. But I managed to get to CVS and Walgreens today, a little bit unexpectedly so I missed a couple of deals at Walgreens that I’d like to go back for. Hopefully that’ll be possible.

Here are some highlights:

At Walgreens, you can use the $2.50 off Electrasol coupon from yesterday’s paper on the 20-count box of gel packs, then submit for rebate #31, which will get you $1.50 back. Assuming you have the rebate credited to a gift card, you’ll make a profit of 66 cents. Progresso soup is 4 for $5 with the in-ad coupon, so if you have any $1.10 off printable coupons, you’ll pay just 15 cents per can (note: the coupons might be printing for a lower value now - I’ve printed my max so I can’t confirm). Selected Garnier Fructis shampoo and conditioners are on sale for $2.99. If you use the $2 off coupon in the EasySaver catalog and a $1 off coupon, it’ll be free. (There were coupons in the 11/9 and yesterday’s Red Plum inserts). And if you have any $1 off Reynolds Aluminum Foil coupons from the 11/16 Smart Source insert, you can get free foil (it’s 99 cents with the in-ad coupon; have the manufacturer coupon scanned first to ensure it doesn’t beep).

At CVS, you can get another bottle of Garnier Fructis for free after ECB and coupon. But my best deal of the day was on the free-after-ECB in January Children’s Throat Coolers. They’re $4.99, and there were Buy one, get one free coupons in the 12/7 Smart Source insert (you can also print the coupon). The coupon lets you pay $4.99 and get $9.98 back in ECBs. I was sure the store would be out of stock, but there were actually plenty. Finally, I think I’m going to have to go back to do the “Great Deal” conceived by Erin at Coupon Cravings. I just hope I can make it back to 2 drugstores this week!

For the time being, I’m avoiding Rite Aid since they don’t have outstanding deals on anything I need and it’s a hassle to get there at the moment. But you can make a $3 profit this week on SoyJoy bars - Lori at Hooray for Freebates tells you how.

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Drugstore Game Adventures

I’m probably going to freak a few parents out, but I’d be willing to bet I’m not the only parent who hasn’t washed her kid’s car seat cover in three years of owning it. I would have if it seemed necessary, but it didn’t.

But as you might recall, we’ve been playing car seat shuffle following a car accident in November. And having only one car has given me a chance to wash the car seat covers without taking any seats out of commission.

What a surprise! Even though the surface wasn’t noticeably dirty, I found lots of crumbs under the cover. And under the styrofoam. Thank goodness I’d bought a Dustbuster a few months ago - it did a pretty good job getting all of those crumbs and sand off. (That reminds me, I owe you a proper review of the Dustbuster.)

Washing the covers was pleasantly easy. So far I’ve washed two Britax Roundabout covers and one Marathon cover. The directions say hand wash and line dry, but I ignored the first part and put them in my (relatively new) washer on the “hand wash” setting, then hung them to dry, and it worked fine.

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Clean your kids’ car seat covers . . . even if you think they aren’t dirty