{"id":7970,"date":"2019-02-17T06:00:37","date_gmt":"2019-02-17T11:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jewelry-secrets.com\/Blog\/?p=7970"},"modified":"2024-01-14T12:09:52","modified_gmt":"2024-01-14T17:09:52","slug":"earring-goop-on-your-posts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jewelry-secrets.com\/Blog\/earring-goop-on-your-posts\/","title":{"rendered":"EARRING GOOP ON YOUR POSTS?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"blog-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jewelry-secrets.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Earring-Goop-Junk.gif\" alt=\"Gross Earring Goop on your Earring Posts\" title=\"Gross Earring Goop on your Earring Posts\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7971\" \/><\/div>\n<p>What is that <strong>thick, white, mountain of crud<\/strong> on your earring posts?<\/p>\n<p><h2>Cottage cheese?<\/h2>\n<p>Ladies and gents, <strong>what are you thinking?<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>Why don&#8217;t you clean your earrings?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You know, those gold and diamond things you put in your ears that you forget about for 8 months?<\/p>\n<p><strong>They get dirty.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p><h2>Real dirty.<\/h2>\n<p>\nI can&#8217;t tell you how many times a customer will take off their earrings and hand them to me with big, chunks of <strong>earring goop<\/strong>, gunk, whatever you want to call it, stuck to the ends of the posts. <\/p>\n<p><h2>White foreign substance&#8230;<\/h2>\n<p>\n<strong>I don&#8217;t get it.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Some earrings get so bad that the little holes in the earring backs get filled up with junk as well.<\/p>\n<p>\nI&#8217;m here to tell you&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><h2>I&#8217;m not touching them!<\/h2>\n<p><strong>It&#8217;s DISGUSTING!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I know, I know, that&#8217;s the whole reason you&#8217;re here in the jewelry store, <strong>to get them cleaned.<\/strong> I get it. But, come on, <strong>why only clean them once a year?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Can you imagine what your clothes would look like if you never washed them?<\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>*GAGS!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><h2>I&#8217;m going on earring goop strike.<\/h2>\n<p>What&#8217;s funny is the fact that people know this. <\/p>\n<p>\nThey feel bad about it.<\/p>\n<p>\nThey smile and get embarrassed and try to wipe the debris off the earrings before they hand them to me&#8230; <\/p>\n<p><h2>Too late.<\/h2>\n<p>\nI&#8217;ve already seen them (<strong>and retched<\/strong>).<\/p>\n<p>\nI&#8217;ll have nightmares about them later&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\n<h2>Why put anyone through this?<\/h2>\n<p>\nCan&#8217;t you clean your earrings <strong>more often?<\/strong> Or bring them to a jeweler more often so we can clean them in the <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2X6BmAq\">ultrasonic cleaner<\/a>. You know, like once a week, or <strong>at least once a month?<\/strong> That way it keeps the grime from building up and getting nasty and<strong> groossssssss!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Earrings get hair sprays and perfumes on them, soaps and shampoo, it&#8217;s a natural part of life, for sure. But they need to be scrubbed and cleaned just like everything else does.<\/p>\n<p><h2>Do this:<\/h2>\n<p>\nTake some <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2X8qlPd\">jewelry cleaner solution<\/a> (or <strong>a little Ammonia and warm water<\/strong>) and an old <strong>toothbrush<\/strong> and gently dab at them. Scrub underneath the diamonds or gems. Get into the baskets and between the prongs and mounting.<\/p>\n<p><h2>Get the gunk out.<\/h2>\n<p>\nKeeping your earrings clean not only makes your diamonds look brand new again and sparkle like the day you bought them, but it also <strong>keeps your posts from tarnishing<\/strong>, staining, turning dark or black and <strong>getting brittle or weak. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><h2>Weak?<\/h2>\n<p>That&#8217;s right. Jewelry that gets dirty can wear down faster because <strong>the metal will corrode.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So take your earrings off and clean them good. <\/p>\n<p>\nGet all that foreign whatever-it-is off your posts and backs. And then maybe you won&#8217;t feel so embarrassed and have to make excuses when you pull your earrings off and there&#8217;s <strong>6 month old potatoes<\/strong> growing there.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, <strong>this sounds gross, but believe me, it is!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>It&#8217;s gross and it smells.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><h2>I&#8217;M NOT TOUCHING IT!<\/h2>\n<p>\n<strong>lol<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know where your ears have been&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\nMud bath?<\/p>\n<p><h2>GAGS! <\/h2>\n<p>\nHorrors, I tell you, <strong>horrors!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\nBetter get your <strong>toothbrush&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s some <strong>heavy cleaning<\/strong> to do&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2X6BmAq\">Check out all the ultrasonic cleaners here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>Cheers! :)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>What is that thick, white, mountain of crud on your earring posts? Cottage cheese? Ladies and gents, what are you thinking? Why don&#8217;t you clean your earrings? You know, those gold and diamond things you <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jewelry-secrets.com\/Blog\/earring-goop-on-your-posts\/\" title=\"EARRING GOOP ON YOUR POSTS?\">[Read More&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7971,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jewelry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewelry-secrets.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7970"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewelry-secrets.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewelry-secrets.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewelry-secrets.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewelry-secrets.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewelry-secrets.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewelry-secrets.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewelry-secrets.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewelry-secrets.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewelry-secrets.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}