DRY ERASE MARKERS are lifesavers!

By Tania Prociuk

• LEAVE A DRY ERASE MARKER IN YOUR CAR - When your boss, wife, husband etc calls and asks you to grab milk or something on the way home you will not forget.  Write MILK on your drivers side window.  Each time you look out your window it will remind you of what you need to do on route.  It is a dry erase, so once the task at hand has been completed wipe it off.  It will be written on the inside of your vehicle, so the rain will not wash it off.   Use the corner of the front windshield as a reminder for your next oil change.

• TURN ANY SURFACE INTO A NOTEPAD -  Dry Erase markers work on so many items....I use nearly every mirror/glass/metal surface in my home as a whiteboard.  Little personal reminders, use your bathroom mirror for items that need completion in the morning.  Leave instructions for the babysitter or house cleaner on that mirrored front closet door.  Instructions for your kids when they get home from school.   I have a glass desk, I use my entire desk as a note pad, I can only imagine the amounts of Post It's I have saved.   

• PLAYTIME WITH THE KID-LETS - Pick a mirror in the house and draw until the heart is content!  Kids are so vain, they love looking at themselves...especially little ones :) Have them look in the mirror and draw horns on them, elf ears, a mustache and watch them get a kick out of it.  Ensure they understand they must only draw on the mirror, hide permanent markers until they are old enough.   Get Crayola or another non-toxic brand for your kids to be safe.

• PERSONAL WHITEBOARD - My little guy works really with pictures and social stories, so I have a blank card wrapped in packing tape when a quick diagram or picture is necessary.  Adults can use the blank mini whiteboard as well the fly.  You can write on them first and create a template, then tape them up....like a phone message.

• WINE GLASS LABLES - self explanatory.

VERY IMPORTANT:  Each brand of dry erase markers are different, on a rare occasion a marker may not entirely erase. Test a small area first on each intended surface before you go Einstein all over it.