Pinterest in real life

So my foray into the world of Pinterest recipes has been going well. Tonight we tried the homemade pizza rollups with pepperoni, string cheese and crescent rolls. Not bad, but not as great as they raved about. It was a fun snack to make with the kids and they liked them so I will keep it in the rotation of fun kids' meals. Over the Christmas break we experimented with several cookie recipes from Pinterest. Some were not all they promised and will need lots of tweaking if they want a permanent spot in my recipe box. There were others that were very yummy, but didn't look like what they were supposed to. If the taste is there, we decided it was a keeper and moved on. One of the other things we tried out over the holiday season was some of the house cleaning tips. Our biggest hope for success was in the cleaning tip for bringing life back to microfiber sofas, of which we have a very large one. It basically consisted of just saturating the whole thing (one area/cushion at a time) with straight up rubbing alcohol and scrubbing it with clean rags and then letting dry. A clean hard-bristled brush rubbed over the completely dried area then brings back the original softness and texture. So....the result is...this process needs to be repeated....repeatedly if your sofa is a dark color and/or badly stained. Some of these stains can also just be from waterspots from previous cleanings. Nevertheless it did work somewhat and if you have a lot of ambition this tip turned out to be ok. The other big tip was the dawn/vinigar and hot water floor cleaner. Basically...yeah with soap and hot water combo it really cleaned my wood floors....the smell however was NOT as pleasant as they claimed. So I may just keep using my Mr. Clean with febreeze scented all purpose cleaner. As the adventures in Pinterest continue I will keep experimenting. Some of the tips seem so logical it makes you wonder why you hadn't thought of them yourself,but then if we all had the time to contemplate these things and come up with the solutions for ourselves....there would be no Pinterest. ;)