A BIG mess. Did I mention that it was all over the CARPET & the COUCH??? And this 2 yr old is very creative. He was putting the drops of red food coloring into the fan & letting it blow it. So we had a MILLION ZILLION tiny drops of red food coloring on the carpet around the fan. The older kids thought that was a pretty cool idea. Not cool for the cleaner-upper (me).
Have you ever tried to clean up food coloring?It just spreads.
The only good thing is that it was downstairs on the basement carpet & the basement couch. The carpet leaves much to be desired down there anyway, so we weren't going to lose lots of sleep over it, but since we are renting this home we didn't want to make the icky carpet WORSE! (plus we'd really like our deposit back...)
Anyway, after about 45 minutes of steam cleaning & bleach (yes, bleach, like I said I wasn't too worried about making the situation worse on this carpet) it is now a faded pink. And the couch looks good too. I don't even know if you can see it anymore. Thank goodness for Grandma's choice of brown plaid on the couch! :) It all kind of blended right in.
Brad said "Why didn't you take pictures of that for your blog?" Good question. I didn't think of it beforehand. You'll just have to take my word for it.
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