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Just realized thrift store furniture polish works better than the fancy stuff
I was always skeptical of those random bottles of furniture polish you find at Goodwill for like $2. My grandma swore by that old can of Pledge she got at a yard sale in 1992, but I thought she was just being cheap. Then last month my coffee table looked all dusty and dull, and I grabbed a $1.50 bottle of some brand I never heard of from the thrift store. Figured what the heck, it's only a buck fifty. Turns out it cleaned up the wood way better than the expensive spray I usually buy at Target. No streaks at all and the shine lasted like two weeks. Has anyone else found a random cleaning product at a thrift shop that actually outperformed the store bought stuff?
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olivia_carr74mo ago
That old stuff really is a gamble though. I'd test it on a hidden spot first, especially if the bottle's been sitting around for decades with who knows what kind of sediment settled in there.
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karen_hart4mo ago
lilycraig is right about that old 80s polish stuff, I actually have a theory that they used way stronger chemicals back then that worked better. But you gotta be careful though, my aunt grabbed a vintage bottle of something called "Old English" or maybe it was "Dutch Oil" from a thrift store last year and it left a sticky residue on her mahogany table that took forever to get off. Not all old stuff is a win, some of it just sits on top of the wood instead of soaking in. Still, when you find the right one it feels like you cheated the system or something.
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lilycraig4mo ago
My buddy Jake grabbed a half-used bottle of some 80s looking wood polish at a garage sale for 50 cents and his beat up dining table looks like it belongs in a showroom. He swears he’ll never buy the new stuff again.
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