All,

My mother bought me 3 of those horrid cheap sponges as a 'little something extra' at Christmas, along with some chocolates I don't like (which she keeps buying me!) and some dusters. I've so far donated the dusters to SWMBO to use round the house, but not wanting to upset the old dear by chucking the sponges in the bin and not intending to take them anywhere near my paintwork have you any suggestions any practical uses I can put them too?

cheers

Ade

If they are brand new, you could use them. Once.

Are there other things they can clean around the house? Thinking outside things like windows/frames/guttering, etc.

Cut them into different shape wedges for applying tyre and bumper dressing

Cut them into different shape wedges for applying tyre and bumper dressing

Good idea, guess I can use em in the engine bay too to save my microfibre cloths getting too dirty

That's what I do - buy cheap sponges and cut them into squares. Perfect for tyre dressing and bumper gel applications.

As you said - saves the microfibres!

cut them into pretty shapes, get some poster paint, dab sponges into paint and make pretty pictures on some card or paper. HTH

Scoop the middles out, give to swmbo. She can clean the floors while she dusts....

Sponge snobbery, what sharn IMHO.

My 50 pence or £1 sponges do a wonderful job for me.

Nice close cell foam that holds not grit or dirty. No swirls or scratches on paint work that is kept to a very high standard.

Cars washed almost daily with them, and some of those cars owned for many years.

Again JIMO,

some people have money to waste on the silliest of things.

Buy cheaper sponges and afford more fuel and drive the car and get it dirty so it needs washed more often.

(I was not a Detailer or a Valeter, i was just a spray painter & re-finisher

that applied the paint and then finished to a high standard of shine, so that it can be washed with cheap sponges)

george

Wash your arse with them?

Its mostly sharn that i wash off with my cheap sponges and thats not always just off the cars.

I am currently suffering over indulging after a bargain purchase of Asda's Habanero Chilli Peanuts.

I think i might go get a sponge.

george

Can you not use them for the alloys? That's what I use my cheap ones for, they get covered in brake dust all the time

Give them to SWMBO as well, she'll find a use for them, no doubt. My wife is always up for a bit of "Totting" in the dustbin, she doesn't trust me throwing anything out and wasting anything.

Wash your arse with them?

HNY to you too! anyway you've not seen my a**e so how do you know they'd fit!

Can you not use them for the alloys? That's what I use my cheap ones for, they get covered in brake dust all the time

Did consider this option Matty, only thing that puts me off is the same reason I won't use them on the paint- the dreaded swirl marks caused by trapping grit on the sponge and as they're black neptunes, with my luck I can see them making a right mess of the mirror finish, but thanks for the suggestion.

Give them to SWMBO as well, she'll find a use for them, no doubt. My wife is always up for a bit of "Totting" in the dustbin, she doesn't trust me throwing anything out and wasting anything.

That'd be spoiling her- she's already had the dusters. I find the best option if you want to bin anything is to nip down the tip when they are at work or when the in-laws are round- always works for me I have an annual 'trip to the tip' when she's not looking, got rid of loads of stuff she hasn't even missed.... brilliant

Cut those sponges into fingers and you could make a delicious chewy trifle.

Cut those sponges into fingers and you could make a delicious chewy trifle.

Ha, nice one...problem is the old dear makes a mean sherry trifle so I couldn't give them back to her. I prefer an indian so I could make sponge pakoras I suppose! I've had worse in Balti houses before now!