myth busters

      So I have been seeing this tip all over the internet, on pinterest, when I use stumbleupon, on blogs, and I decided to put it to the test. 
     The claim? Rubbing a walnut over scratched furniture will erase the scratches (or at least soften them). Seeing that I own ample scratched and dinged furniture and also always have a jar of walnuts on hand I figured I ought to give it a try.

I am going to apologize right now for the picture quality, we have the worst lighting in our house during the mid day.




So I tried it. First on our dinning room table. The first picture is the before, and the second picture is the after....

You can see the small ding in the center of the image

Rubbed the ding with some walnut and wouldn't you know, the ding got bigger...

The first attempt was a fail, the ding actually got bigger! (don't tell my boyfriend I did it...) So I decided to try my luck again because I thought maybe it was the wood.

Before walnut

After walnut

Believe it or not, these are before and after images, it's just, well, nothing happened.

So, what have I learned? 

• Don't use a wamut to lessen the look of dings and scrapes on wooden furniture...
• Don't trust everything you see on the internet (no matter how many times you see it)

I hope this saves you the trouble : /