So I don't have a frugal solution to this, but I did find a product that works quite well on stains. Woolite's heavy traffic foam is the best. It lifts stains right out of the fabric. Including ground in bananas, grape juice, maple syrup and tomato juice, even if they are a year old.

Yeah, a year. I'm so busy changing diapers that I don't clean my furniture that much. We're lucky if the TVs get dusted off. Otherwise we just sit and complain about how we can't see the screen.

I knew having kids was going to be taxing on all of my cleaning projects. I mean, for ten years I've dealt with my oldest son's remarkable penchant for getting things dirty, and I did it on my own. Now I'm remarried, and with three younger kids in the house, the stains are getting overwhelming. My nice microfiber couch that looked great on the sales floor now has little spit stains on it. My $600 massage chair? I'm fairly certain it's been urped on at least twice. The loveseat has some weird stain on one cushion that I'm afraid to clean because I don't know what will come out of it if I do!!

Thing is, all my furniture is stain guarded. If I actually sat down for an hour or two and worked on the stains they would come out and no one would be none the wise that my middle baby, who is almost 2, took his sippy cup of milk and made pretty artistic dots all over the back cushions of the couch.

So why don't I take that time?

I've come to the realization that each stain on my furniture has a story behind it, and I feel that if I clean up the stain, I'm removing a piece of my kids' lives. I realize how ridiculous that sounds, but think about it. How often do we hold onto something from our kids, hide it in a box until graduation? That's how I feel about these stains.

So...I guess I'm just gonna hve to dig out the digital camera and take a picture for posterity...and hang it on the "wall of shame" at my sons' graduation parties!!

God bless!

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