Tarnished silver?

iVillage Member
Registered: 03-19-2003
Tarnished silver?
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Tue, 08-08-2006 - 10:34pm

Don asked me this out of the BLUE tonight, a plumbing customer had silver service laid out to THROW AWAY, and she gave it to him when he asked her WHY???

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Registered: 07-04-2003
Wed, 08-09-2006 - 2:20am

For smaller things, like rings and necklaces, I use toothpaste! Works great for me.

I've heard of it, but never tried it. And since I have only recently received silver utensils, I'll definitely keep this in mind for when we need to clean them.


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iVillage Member
Registered: 03-19-2003
Wed, 08-09-2006 - 9:30pm
Jewelers say the toothpaste thing works, but eventually pits and damages the silver or gold.

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iVillage Member
Registered: 01-05-2006
Fri, 08-11-2006 - 5:19pm

DYK that if you spray your clean silver, flatware, jewerly, etc with WD40 it helps keep it from tarnishing so quickly.


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Registered: 03-19-2003
Fri, 08-11-2006 - 7:03pm

That's a great tip!

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