Remember how I promised you a report on shamwows? It’s here, people. I know you’ve been losing sleep over this, and I’m about to offer you the relief you’ve been seeking. The wondering, the worry, the agonizing question is at last about to be answered.
They
Are
AWESOME.
They actually arrived several weeks ago, but shockingly, I have managed to keep my home spill-free for all this time.
Until tonight.
Tonight, I spilled an entire can of formula on my family room carpet. I can’t even begin to tell you how many times I’ve done this, and no matter how I’ve tried to clean it - either with oxyclean or plain old water and soap or that dual-action carpet cleaner - all of them result in a crunchy sticky spot on the carpet that just won’t go away.
But Shamwows have changed all that. I grabbed a shamwow as soon as the spill occurred, and it literally INHALED every drop right out of the carpet. I’m not kidding you guys - it was bordering on miraculous. No stickiness, no crunchiness, no wetness to speak of after the shamwow soaked it all up. I love these things. I’m thinking of using them on my hair - because I bet they’ll work even better than my super absorbent hair towel.
Plus, they shipped when they said they would ship, and they were $20 for a whole pile of them - in two different sizes even.
You should buy these, people. Shamwows Rule.
Our local News just did a story on them last night. They took some to a car wash and had the attendants use them to dry off cars to see how they would work. The attendants said they worked like they claimed they would ny absorbing a lot of water and not leaving marks like some towels can. They also said they were a lot easier to wring out than towels.
I wonder if Mr. Mock is still upset that you bought them, because I remember him making some comment about his money going to satisfy our curiosity…
Wow, I gotta say I am pretty excited you have such good results. My boyfriend and I always make fun of the crooked face guy, and how he exclaims that they are from GERMANY, like they are known for making such innovative things. Anyways, I think you may have sold me!
Awww, I was ready for some Kinoki-level mocking!!!
Yay! I’ll get some. Sounds like they’d be perfect for when I spot-clean the couch and have to wait forever for the area to dry. I also appreciated your report on the pedi-egg. I was tempted to buy one because of its specific design, but it sounds useless. If you want to smooth your feet fast and easily, even heavily callused and/or cracked feet (not that you have that, but some reader might) you absolutely cannot do better than Dr Scholl’s Swedish Foot File. Sure, it only costs about five bucks and it looks like a piece of plastic with black or silver sandpaper glued to it, but holy cow! It works amazingly well and lasts forever. Do not just casually sit down on the couch or edge of the bed and start to file. You need to put a waste basket under your foot or a page of newspaper or something, because this file makes lots of dead skin dust very quickly. (That’s what I thought would be good about the pedi-egg. Supposedly it has a dust catcher.) You can get a Swedish Foot File online if for some reason your local drugstore doesn’t carry them. It’s the answer to your foot’s heartfelt need. Or something. =)
Biscuit Tin, I have a pedi-egg and mine works great! Everything about it worked fine, from the filer to the catcher to the smoother. I had great results right away.
I was really really admiring Dr. Scholl’s pads (with massaging gel) after I had to walk and sometimes run in my 3-inch boots for the entire day and those amazing pads protected my feet like, magic!!! So I think I’m gonna try Dr Scholl’s Swedish Foot File, although my feet are in great shape since I lotion them daily.
biscuit tin,
i too have a pedi-egg.
works great, like jill said!
love mine, clean up is a breeze with
the little ‘dust catcher’.
and it does take off the dead skin really
fast! very convienient.
but now i want the sham-wow’s too!!
:o)
I just love the crooked-faced pitch man from the ads he is like the condecending jerk from the neighborhood who talks down to everybody. He stops just short of going “What are you some kinda freaking moron you not gonna buy this awesome product? You know I should just bust ya upside da head if your such an idiot as to not buy da Sham-WOW!!”
Thanks, mock! I’m totally getting some now! Side note; spikey, whats with your grammar and punctuation, guy? I just felt some serious pissyness reading that crap.
Well Cynicat, it was intended to be sarcastic mocking in keeping with the spirit of the website. The quotation marks were meant to appear as if they were a direct quote and the grammer was meant to emulate the odd manner of speech that the young man uses in the commercial for the Sham-WOW. So sorry if my take on humor upset you to the point you felt the need to mock me but then again it is the Mock Dock and mockery is expected. =)
Dang! I was looking forward to some Kinoki-style mockery, too. Oh well. I’m glad you didn’t waste Mr. Mock’s moolah.
I still won’t buy these things, though. Vince-the-fin-head grates my nerves worse than a PedEgg. I have a rule: If the commercial/pitchman annoys me, I refuse to buy the product. (Boy, was I glad when they got Retchel Ray off the Triscuit boxes!!)
“I wonder if Mr. Mock is still upset that you bought them, because I remember him making some comment about his money going to satisfy our curiosity…”
Yes, I am so glad $50 worth of towels worked just as well as $6 worth of paper towels. Yes, I’m so happy….
I’m with wordwych….vile pitchman trumps all else when it comes to a purchase decision. The Sham-Wow guy looks about as trustworthy as a used car salesman with a crack pipe in his hand.
It was $20, Mr. Mock, not $50, and they are WAAAAAY better than paper towels.
Now that you’re being snotty about it, I’m going to go buy everything that Billy Mays sells. And Suzanne Sommers. And that dude with the ponytail mullet.
I tried the Pedi-Egg, too and it worked wonderfully!!! I had some serious “heel biscuits” and they were both gone after about 5-10 minutes on each foot! (The dust catcher didn’t work so well, but that’s what vacuums are for…) All other files I have tried (I have about 6 or 7 ) didn’t even come close!