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Hack to Avoid: Storing Wet Paint Roller in Pringles Can

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This segment critically evaluates the popular 'hack' of storing a wet paint roller in a Pringles can inside the refrigerator overnight. The presenter highlights the issues with this method: Pringles cans are made of cardboard, which will absorb moisture and oils from the roller and eventually fall apart. Additionally, Pringles contain oil and salt, which will contaminate the roller and potentially transfer to your paint, leading to quality issues. The advice is to use appropriate brush baggies or clean your rollers properly.

Goal: Understand why storing a wet paint roller in a Pringles can is not recommended.

Tools and materials

  • Paint Roller — The item to be stored
  • Pringles Can Pringles — Demonstrating an unsuitable storage container

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the next hack and um i see this one when i first saw this i thought whoa that's so smart it's so brilliant i mean the pringles can and you can take and put your paint roller in a pringles can and i mean how brilliant and we it's almost like it was made for it i know it was like degree maybe pringles they own like a roller company or something like that like premiere rolls a lot of money in it so they went with chips so so we went down bought some pringles we um your kids wolf these things down like i mean in seconds i saw him eating and um yeah so but okay look if you're gonna put your roller inside this pringles can what is in there i mean there's all kinds of salt well it looks like bar barbecue flavor there's barbecue all over there there's the pringles have oil all over them you're going to get oil all over your roller it's going to contaminate your roller with salt barbecue sauce and i don't know if you're licking your walls and you want your walls to taste like barbecue um and maybe that's why you're doing it but they say also you can wrap it in plastic and then put it in here but what's wrong with that well i mean you already wrapped it in plastic so

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