When I visited my favorite computer support website, I did not expect to find information about common household products, such as dryer sheets for the Bounce brand. However, as in many successful online communities, the function sometimes exceeds its initial aspirations. There was a post on September 12th that caught my eye, “Bounce this around”, filed in The Doctor Lounge (usually for birthday comments or other off-topic comments). I was surprised to see that the message was written as an ad copy for the dryer sheets for the Bounce brand:
The US Postal Service sent a message to all letter carriers to put a bounce sheet in their pockets to keep the yellow jackets [sic] long away.The position continued to require a total of 21 “alternatives”. uses for the product. I was amazed. Money could not buy such an advertisement! At first, I thought, “What's in these drying sheets?” Of course, if they repel insects, they must be toxic. Therefore, I turned to the main resource concerning the danger of any consumed household, Material Safety Data Sheet. Hoping to find something carcinogenic (or, at least, environmentally unfriendly); I was disappointed when the most serious health warning was: "Swallowing a used or unused leaf as a small child or pet could lead to infection of the gastrointestinal tract." A doctor or veterinarian should be contacted. “So they can potentially cause constipation, but obviously, manufacturers do not worry about what can happen if you really digest it.”Use them all the time, playing baseball and football. It really works. Yellow jackets just turn around you.
1. All this time you just put the bounce in the dryer! It will chase the ants when you put the leaf next to them. It also repels mice.
2. Spread the sheets around the foundation, or in trailers, or on machines that sit, and keep mice from your car.
3. It eliminates the smell from books and photo albums that do not open too often.
4. He repels mosquitoes. Tie a “Rebound” sheet through the loop of the belt when outside during the mosquito season.
"Biodegradable fabric softeners", regardless of whether the active chemicals on the sheets. According to the MSDS sheet, if you feed enough rats (more than 1% of body weight), they will kill them. It sounded like proactive evidence for me, until I realized that if I ate 1% of my body weight just about that, I would probably be sick myself.
By now, I thought 21 claims were a bit more dubious. Of course, on BounceEverywhere.com, the site for this product should be official claims. Although Procter and Gamble, the owner of the Bounce brand, do not pretend to be additional insect abilities, some of the posters on the Bounce message boards. “When in an open area where wasps are a problem, just rub a fresh bounce on your hair, clothes and open skin. Salyersville, KY. Well, it is obvious that Bounce does not try to deny that it can repel insects, even if they do not directly promote it for this reason. After I was deep in my job, I discovered a trend. They supposedly reflect mosquitoes, wasps, yellow beetles, moths, ticks, chiggers, ants, rats, mice, chipmunks and even birds! Dissolve the sheet in water and use it to remove wetted grease in pots or even wallpaper from the walls! Yes, that's right, someone posting to BounceEverywhere.com claims to use a bounce to remove wallpaper , The official position of Bounce on publications - "We do not edit your comments and therefore are not responsible for the content or its accuracy." After reading enough of these outlandish claims, my research became a cynical turn. Of course, there must be an unbiased resource to analyze these claims. So I checked my favorite authority for confirming and debunking modern myths, snopes.com.
Snows & # 39; An article entitled “Bounce Back” reviewed the sixteen claims made against Bounce in a disseminated e-mail document, first documented in 2003. ArticleAVE out of two of the sixteen claims is a clear victory for Bounce (both its smell properties) and four claims a definitely not, while the balance fell into a category where it was not particularly effective, ineffective or measurable.
At that moment I was lost. How can I refuse all statements that I have found? I returned my research back to the original post, which started my dilemma. I saw my comments being triggered by several more replies. “This is also a repellent for elephants. Look at all the elephants? ”Published by SpywareDr. My research was able to ask more questions than it answered when another poster stated:
* Drive one on the neck of the filler neck in the car's fuel tank and increase fuel consumption by 430%.The Internet is the most common tool of the information age, but it looks thriving on misinformation and misinformation. Realizing that after all these Internet studies, I still had to spend one of these mystical lists in my hand, I went to the grocery store to buy a box for my own experiments. Startled, I made my way to a place on the shelf where the original Bounce smells were supposed to be. "Open fresh fragrance", "Fresh underwear" and "Spring awakening," the boxes announced. I put up with the smell, like the Summer Garden, and put it in my jacket pocket. Two days later I visited a friend with a little favorite pet. When the bird jumped over the couch and into my lap, I remembered that the dryer sheet was still in my jacket, just inches from this charming bird.* Put ten sheets on both drums of your car to prevent accidents - it repels other vehicles.
* Put the sheet in the dishwasher, and your plates will be wrinkle-free.
* A sheet or two at the bottom of the computer case will prevent the use of BSOD [windows errors] and damaged files.
I have not yet seen the difference in the gas mileage, but since 1985 I have not had an accident, none of my dishes have wrinkles, and my computer works fine.
Although my research has shown that Bounce cannot be disgusting for birds, I have not seen any mosquitoes, wasps, yellow jackets, moths, ticks, chiggers, ants, rats, mice or chipmunks. Or elephants, for that matter. But the drawer containing the rest of my Bounce dryer sheets will remain where it is located: in my laundry room, on the shelf above my dryer.
