Adventures in Science with ulterior motives.....ooohhhh......ahhhhhh

It comes as no surprise to anyone who knows me that I am a procrastinator.  It truly is an ADHD thing,  It is simply too easy to find 600 other things to do.  Does not help the situation at all when hubby and all 5 kids have it too!
So what did we wait to the last minute to do?  D.J.'s sixth grade sciene fair project.  I probably shouldn't admit that we knew about it before Christmas.  But as usual, life got in the way.  So here we are, the night before the final project is due and we still don't know what to do.
So good old google came to the rescue.  We simply typed in science fair projects and voila!  More ideas than we know what to do with..... also not a good thing for the ADHD mind.
Once we eliminated all the ones that were going to take a lot of time we ended up with D.J. picking a product testing project.  He decided to findo ut which carpet cleaner works the best.  Can you see where this would secretly delight me...I want to know.  Christmas trashed my carpets!

We have a roll of extra carpet that came with our house and it has been sitting in the garage since we got here.  We cut off a few strips and had fun staining them.
D.J. rubbed dirt in them, ink from a stamp pad, and grape juice.  All common household "problems" that arise around here far more often than I want to admit.
He washed one with water, one with straight ammonia, one with a generic (Wal~Mart) brand carpet spot remover, Resolve, and Spot Shot.
Wanna know what works the best...... I will tell you tomorrow after all the samples have dried!  LOL!


Since I keep forgetting to include my gratitude list......I think I will change from doing 5 every time to just one.  A little less pressure on my cluttered mind.
I am grateful for GOOGLE!  saved the day today!