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Avoid Storing Roller in Pringles Can

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6 BAD Painting Hacks. These Tips Are NONSENSE!

What happens here

This 'hack' suggests placing a wet paint roller directly into an empty Pringles can to keep it moist for later use. This is a bad idea because Pringles cans contain a significant amount of oil, salt, and seasoning residue. These residues will inevitably transfer to the paint roller, contaminating it. When the contaminated roller is then used for painting, these foreign substances will transfer to your walls, leading to adhesion issues, discoloration, or an unpleasant texture. While some variations suggest wrapping the roller in plastic before placing it in the can, this adds an unnecessary step. It is much more effective and hygienic to use proper roller covers or specialized brush baggies designed to keep paint tools fresh without contamination.

Goal: Do not store used paint rollers inside empty Pringles cans, as food residue will contaminate the roller and ruin your paint job.

Tools and materials

  • Brush Baggie / Roller Cover
  • Paint Roller
  • Plastic Wrap
  • Pringles Can

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let's get on to the next hack and um i see this one when i first saw this i thought well 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 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 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 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 i mean what's wrong with that well i mean you've already wrapped it in plastic so why put it in a container i mean it's done at that point now you're just eating a can of pringles because you want to eat a can of pringles if you like pringles it's okay just eat them you don't have to justify it while you're painting i i yeah just toss the pringles can when you're done don't try to use it for a roller cover or something like that um you can use a brush baggie which um it works a little bit better

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