…is not a phrase that makes me wanna pick up an item and run.
(Although I know that there are some people out there that dial in to score something on an infomercial everyday…Snuggies anyone?!?)
But blankets-that-resemble-monk’s-ensemble aside, when I saw the little “AS SEEN ON TV” on this package of Magic Sliders…it gave me great security knowing that at least 200 million other people might regret this purchase as much as I do.
But guess what happened?
I didn’t regret it. Not one little bit. In fact, I feel proud that I am part of the Magic Sliders crew. But first let me tell you how it went down.
We have these great stools in our kitchen:
And we also have hardwood floors that we painstakingly installed by hand. But you see the wood floor is not protected from the bottoms of the stool legs. In fact, everytime my boyfriend would Swiffer, he noticed more and more minor scratch marks on the floor due to the chairs.
So, we went to the local hardware store to find a solution. There were felt bottoms and screw-in-pads for chair legs and all sort of different products for protecting your hardwoods. But then the Magic Sliders caught our eye.
Mostly because of the shape and cost. They were the only stick-on types that we saw that were 8 in a package (enough to do 2 chairs). Plus they were the cheapest. So we snagged a couple packages and headed home.
Installation was really simple.
First we hoisted up our chairs,
then cleaned off the bottom of each stool foot (who knew that dust bunnies would actually adhere themselves to the bottom of a stool?!?!),
and tore open the package. Inside were stickies and sliders.
Each sticky had two sides of peely paper. One side was sticky for stickage to the slider,
and the other side was peeled off to stick the slider to the stool.
Perfect fit huh?
And now, (after much pregnant-girl-testing) the stools have not scraped up the floor anymore. I honestly don’t know why we didn’t do it earlier. For under $10 and 10 minutes, we have a such relief knowing that each one of our 1,580 lb friends can sit and readjust their seat without scuffing up the floor. It’s sheer bliss.
It was so simple that I figure there must be more little products out there that could make our life stress-free. Anybody know of one? Anyone try Magic Sliders? Or maybe you have tried a “As Seen On TV” product before and it was a complete waste of money? Or maybe, just maybe, you thought this entire post was a different kind of Magic Sliders…the mini burgers made completely outta bacon. Mmmmm….now that’s magical 🙂
I have magic sliders on my couch legs. I can literally whiz that badboy away from the wall singlehandedly, which makes vacuuming a breeze. Glad to know they work on hardwood!
Mmmmm….sliders! Idk about completely outta bacon, but through a few slices on one of mine with pickles and mustard and we’ll be best friends for life!
And great idea for you stools!
And now I’m hungry 🙂 Glad you were able to find a solution – as silly as some of the “As Seen on TV” products can be, some of them surprise you.
THEY WORK ON CARPET?!?!
Shut the heck up Danielle…now I need like a gazillion 🙂
XO – Kaybee
I’m a fan of the sliders…we use large sliders to move heavy furniture. I’m also a fan of Hercules Hooks for hanging artwork without needing a hammer! 🙂
Amy
I bought the ‘Firearm Forklifts’ from Target in the ‘As seen on TV’ section. My fiance thought I was a fool and said they wouldn’t work and I had wasted my $19.99… That was until he saw me and his scrawny friend Phil lift our old big a** projector tv and walk it down our steep driveway and right out to the curb to give away.
BEST $19.99 I THINK I’VE EVER SPENT!
Now my fiance uses it all the time to lift truck cabs and beds off of the frames (he’s a mechanic/fabricator)and move all kinds of other obnoxiously huge and heavy things. I just like reminding him of who got those crazy ‘waste of money’ orange straps. : )
We’ve also used them to move refrigerators, ovens, washing machines, dryers and dishwashers, mattresses…. dang, maybe we should start a moving service.
Whatever you do do not buy the Perfect Pancake! I repeat do not buy the Perfect Pancake! The one and only time I have had a pancake shoot across my stove was with the Perfect Pancake maker 😐
(FYI this was a gift)
my As Seen on TV are those glass orbs you fill with water that supposedly waters your plants for weeks.
As the resident plant killer in the house I can now attest that they do work! Been months since I killed any plants and the orbs actually catch my eye when I walk by so I remember to occasionally check there is still water in them. Love it.
I love my Ped Egg…sort of. I get pretty grossed out after I use it.
I told my whole family NOT to get me a Snuggy for Christmas, because I would not be able to fake gratitude. By the last Christmas party, I had two. One from my husband who ripped the box so I couldn’t take it back.
Waste of money… The Rotato potato peeler. In all fairness, I got it as a gift. Let’s just not talk about its terrible performance.
My husband made fun of me because I bought him the Iron Gym for Christmas. He admitted shortly thereafter that it was a great buy because it really does what it says (it is just a basic tool that helps with 3 different exercises) and doesn’t take up much room at all!
Next you gotta try ‘Hercules Hooks’ (as seen on t.v., natch). They.are.awesome.
I am an infomercial junkie… Bare Minerals, Hercules Hooks, 10min Trainer, Sham Wow, the Multimaster… I got ’em (typically find them cheaper on ebay)! My lasted wants: Worx GT, Omni Saw, & Mr. Steamy 🙂
I’ve tried the hercules hooks and the pedegg – both work fabulously. Don’t bother with the pedipaws though – it’s a complete waste of time and money.
I love love love your blog…I found it through another friends blog and I am hooked. Thanks for the honest to goodness truth about a lot of stuff… 🙂
My favorite “As Seen on TV” product is the Jupiter Jack!! It was a Christmas gift from dear old dad and it works like a charm and now I am a law abiding citizen in good ol’ CA…RIP Billy Mays!!
Glad they work for you. We tried some of those with stickies on our dining room chairs (but we had tile) and they didn’t last at all. The sticky didn’t hold, and they were forever half-on and half-off. We finally found some that had that nice plastic protection but screwed into the bottom of the chair (the screw was inset so it didn’t touch anything). Those were perfect for us. But tile isn’t as smooth as wood floors, so maybe that’s why the sticky ones didn’t work for us.
I just installed Safety 1st “Tot Loks” to the cabinets under the sink. Our 3 month old munchkin will be getting into things before we know it. The Tot Lok system was a bit tricky to install, but once you get it right they’re pretty nifty. I find myself wanting to run the dishwasher so I have to use the James-Bondish magnetic knob that allows you access to the dishwashing soap. Plus, it holds the cabinet door so close to the cabinet that little ones won’t be able to pinch any fingers.
Oh!! That is brilliant! I have the larger magic sliders that I use on carpet to move heavy pieces of furniture (like my entertainment center/etc), but to permanently attach them to stools is genius. I don’t have a wood floor at the moment that requires something like that, but I’ll remember it for the future!
Strap-Perfect all the way! No more trailer trash bra straps!
**sigh** I miss the Rotato. LOL
We use sliders on our couches/hardwood, but have to be careful. If you get too much “back” going when you throw yourself down, the couch takes off like a rocket. 🙂
I am not ashamed. I own and regularly use The Magic Bullet. If you’re into smoothies the things seriously rules.
I have used a couple great ASon TV products. My favorites are Bare Minerals and the Magic Bullet. We use the magic bullet to make baby food and it is so tiny it stores easily.
My favorite line? “…everytime my boyfriend would Swiffer….” Jeremy strikes me as a guy more at home with power tools so this just made me giggle 🙂
Oh yea, that Pedi Paw thing is junk. My dog totally freaked so it has been sitting in the closet for months.
The Ped Egg, on the other hand, works amazingly well… almost too good. It’s pretty gross when you realize what’s been hanging around on your heels.
I also found the Hercules Hooks at WalMart and can’t for the life of me get them to work right. Whatever I hang ends up falling or won’t hang level. Does anyone know if there’s a trick to it?
I had to go get the Magic Sliders for my dining room table and chairs when I moved into my current apartment – The bottoms are the black wrought iron, and it was scratching the hardwood floor bad! The Sliders work like a charm! I need to go get some more for the coffee table. I got them because they had some that were about 4″ long by about 1″ wide, and that was the closest to the shape of my table legs. I also LOVE my Magic Bullet! I wore one out and the second one is almost worn out now! I use it almost every day, sometimes multiple times a day. It is great!
We’ve used the big suckers for moving furniture before and have been very pleased, but I did not realize they had a small, “permanent” version for stools. I think I need some of those! The felt pads we have now are losing their will to live one by one…
On the topic of your wood floors, get yourself some puffy paint. Our whole house is hardwood and I tired of toddlers crashing into cabinets (and worse!) You obviously won’t need it right away, but definitely as that little bambino gets older. Make little dots on the bottom of his socks so he’ll have some tread. Wipeouts averted!
LOVE your site!
the ped egg and wonder hangers are my “as seen on tv favorites”. the snuggie has made a fun semi-gag gift… but i’m not too impressed with it’s actual snuggle performance. has anyone tried the bump-it? i can’t decide whether they look ridiculous or fantastic!
Hi – new to your blog. I really need to get some of those sliders, as we’re destroying our floors beneath our chairs. Thanks for the timely tip. Not exactly related, but thought I’d share my time in the slider aisle this week. We just bought a new house, and soon after moving in, we realized our coffee table was sliding every time somebody touched it. We lamented the fact that our living room floor was obviously so terribly sloped. Months went by, we stalled… last week we finally bought some screw in gripper gadget to take care of the table. My husband flipped the table over and realized that the moving men had somehow managed to leave one wheel/castor on the table (out of 4 legs). To my recollection, the thing never even had wheels. Turns out our living room is perfectly level. 😀
I am a sucker for infomercials. Seriously. I’m not even a big fan of shopping, but you could sell me a half-eaten box of cereal if you advertise it on television for “three easy payments of $19.99”. It doesn’t even have to be a cereal I like. 😉
Sadly, my husband is the same way, so we really have to restrain ourselves from buying too many things from the television. I actually blocked QVC so that I’m not even tempted.
A few things that we’ve bought and loved are the Hercules Hooks, the Magic Bullet, and those space-saving hangers and vacuum storage bags. The Ped-Egg was a flop for me, but I see that others like it (maybe I got a bad one?). I’m also a huge fan of Bare Minerals (been wearing it for 3 years now and will never wear regular makeup again). The husband and I are currently obsessed with the P90x commercials, but haven’t taken the plunge yet.
Just discovered your blog- love it, and think you’re hilarious! I’ll be back to read more hilarious and interesting posts.
Cheers!
PS I love my off-brand Magic Sliders and those magnetic cabinet baby-proof locks really are amazing
I bought the Bender Ball from an infomercial. I’d eaten one too many cheese steaks and I thought “What do I have to lose. It’s $19.99!” umm, it’s total crap! My advice, keep your $20 and buy an at home video!
Mall of America (Minneapolis, Minn) has an As Seen on TV Store. I bought the Perfect Brownie pan…and it works awesome! Just imagine, each brownie can be smushy and raw-ish in the middle, but all the edges are baked to perfection. I love the perfect brownie pan…highly recommended!
For Christmas, I bought my boyfriend (a new home owner) the Sham-wow. Still waiting for a big spill to test them on…
great find! i use the felt bottoms but those come off too easily. i will have to try these. good post!
Pedi Paw awful unless your dog is deaf and blind – I really want Mr. Steamy!!! Can anyone tell me if it works??
ooohhh I likey… I wonder if they make them in a bigger size, say for a bed or dresser?
p.s. I saw a guy at the Atlanta airport wearing a snuggie, in public. I laughed so hard I peed a little.
Liz – Hercules Hooks are great,
I poke the sharp end straight into the wall then turn it so the hook it upright and the long end (inside the wall) should be a few inches directly above where your hook is visible.
It uses the weight of the item to hold the hook in. I hope I didn’t make it any more confusing…. =D
The Ninja is the most amazing product I have ever bought. I got it for my boyfriend for Christmas. Its what he really wanted, but I thought it seemed dumb since we already had a magic bullet. This thing works leaps and bound better then the magic bullet, in fact we tossed ours. I use it for everything, mixing pancake batter, cookies, chopping chicken. I sound like a salesperson, but seriously, it’s amazing!
Shoes under = crap. I’m glad hercules hooks work, though… we’ve had a box for 2 years now, and I didn’t know the awesome power we had waiting in that box!
You’ll have to update on how long the stick lasts. I seem to get about a year out of my felt stickies and then it’s time for a replacement. But a $4, really? Who’s complaining?
Thanks a lot, now I totally want sliders for dinner!
The two biggest money-wasters as far as ASOTV products go (in our experience) are the Awesome Auger and Loud N’ Clear. The Awesome Auger’s blade is duller than the movie “The English Patient.” And the Loud N’ Clear makes everything sound like Nirvana’s album “In Utero” played while scuba diving.