Keeping Tarot Edges Clean

EmpyreanKnight

I learned so many new things here, thanks! I know someone who has used gambling playing cards so I'd test on these first, even if they may not use the same type of paper used on most Tarot cards. I'd just be absolutely mortified if a deck of mine goes through what FLiz's Vampire Tarot did (you have my sympathies, dear friend) so I'd have to practice first until I master it.

I wonder tho, the wondrously resilient, industrial strength bread gregory and Barleywine mentioned must have been meant for human consumption? Those who eat them must have really tough teeth and very healthy gums. I think I'm gonna try this first.

If any of us here tried some of the very resourceful ways in cleaning deck edges detailed here, it might be very helpful to us and our future readers if we post feedback too. For science!
 

gregory

EmpyreanKnight said:
I wonder tho, the wondrously resilient, industrial strength bread gregory and Barleywine mentioned must have been meant for human consumption? Those who eat them must have really tough teeth and very healthy gums. I think I'm gonna try this first.

If any of us here tried some of the very resourceful ways in cleaning deck edges detailed here, it might be very helpful to us and our future readers if we post feedback too. For science!
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Oh no - on the CONTRARY - it is squishy and - well, I can't say it MELTS in the mouth, but it turns to slime in the mouth. :p Teeth are not actually needed, never mind TOUGH teeth. Don't buy bread in a bakery for this.

You want this kind of muck (brand unimportant - but do get white.)

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f3/Wonder_Bread.JPG

Let me quote at you from a site about the original version (Wonder bread was the first of its kind.):

Bite into a fresh, crusty baguette and then bite into a slice of Wonder bread, and it’ll be immediately clear that there are some major differences at play. Wonder bread is impossibly soft and pillowy, and that’s because of the process used to make it: The flour is treated and softened, and other special chemicals prevent it from drying out.
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The stuff you need comes sliced in a plastic bag. ALWAYS. The squish is what makes it so easy to make into erasers. And the price is what makes you not mind doing so - get the cheapest you can find. They all work.

And for science - I haven't used it on cards; I HAVE used it to clean up mucky books the children had been at. It was fantastic.
 

Barleywine

gregory said:
Oh no - on the CONTRARY - it is squishy and - well, I can't say it MELTS in the mouth, but it turns to slime in the mouth. :p Teeth are not actually needed, never mind TOUGH teeth. Don't buy bread in a bakery for this.

You want this kind of muck (brand unimportant - but do get white.)

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f3/Wonder_Bread.JPG

Let me quote at you from a site about the original version (Wonder bread was the first of its kind.):

The stuff you need comes sliced in a plastic bag. ALWAYS. The squish is what makes it so easy to make into erasers. And the price is what makes you not mind doing so - get the cheapest you can find. They all work.

And for science - I haven't used it on cards; I HAVE used it to clean up mucky books the children had been at. It was fantastic.
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And if you have any left, you can roll it up into big snowballs (hey, it's snowing hard here, I can do free-association too! :D), and throw it at people you don't like. They might actually eat it, and then you would never have to worry about them again (and I can even spell "curmudgeon!") One loaf of Wonder Bread would make several lifetimes worth of erasers; I wonder what freezing would do to its "pillowy" squishiness.
 

Laura Borealis

An old friend of mine raised her children on good, home-baked bread. She told me the first time they encountered cheap white Wonder-style bread, at someone else's house, they brought it to her with their eyes as big as saucers. "There's something wrong with this bread," they whispered. "It doesn't taste like ANYTHING."

I almost wish I had a grubby deck to test it on, though I don't know what I'd do with the rest of the loaf. There's nobody I dislike enough to throw it at them, and I would feel bad feeding it to the birds.
 

Amsonia

Padma said:
The other solution is to use a kneadable art eraser. It is a little square of stuff similar to plastecine - all squishy rubber. You knead it in your fingers till warm and pliable, and then you lay it along the dirt and lift the eraser blob off. It has no oils or anything sticky in it, lifts dirt like a charm, and was created for paper, so it won't damage your deck.
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That's what I was going to suggest, gentle (I used it on tracing paper often) works great, no residue, no eraser dust.

I ought to go find mine and try it out...although I don't have a particularly grimy edged deck...

This is the kind I have
http://www.jerrysartarama.com/prism...yqsA1PsnfDo2PmsUlMFKB3V6qNhGqbox_kaAgDO8P8HAQ
 

gregory

Laura Borealis said:
An old friend of mine raised her children on good, home-baked bread. She told me the first time they encountered cheap white Wonder-style bread, at someone else's house, they brought it to her with their eyes as big as saucers. "There's something wrong with this bread," they whispered. "It doesn't taste like ANYTHING."

I almost wish I had a grubby deck to test it on, though I don't know what I'd do with the rest of the loaf. There's nobody I dislike enough to throw it at them, and I would feel bad feeding it to the birds.
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GOD no - NEVER feed bread to birds - it's not that good for them. Seriously. Even "good" bread.

Bread

All types of bread are acceptable to birds, but ideally it should only be just one component in a varied diet. Bread does not contain the necessary protein and fat birds need from their diet, and so it can act as an empty filler. Although bread isn't harmful to birds, try not to offer it in large quantities, since its nutritional value is relatively low. A bird that is on a diet of predominantly, or only bread, can suffer from serious vitamin deficiencies, or starve.
Only put out an amount of bread that birds will eat in a day. Food left on the ground overnight can attract rats. Soaked bread is more easily ingested than stale dry bread, and brown bread is better than white. Crumbled bread is suitable in small quantities, but moisten if it is very dry. During the breeding season, crumble the bread into tiny pieces so that it is only eaten by the adult birds. Dry chunks of bread will choke baby birds, and a chick on a diet of bread may not develop into a healthy fledgling.
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But you can PLAY - roll the stuff over newspaper. It's enormous fun in a pathetic sort of way :joke:
 

Padma

ersatz white bread is apparently also good for drawing pus out from a boil ;) Sorry, I know that's yucky, but it is rural advice from these parts! (not directly from me!) I've heard old ladies discuss it at the doc's office, in the waiting room.

EK, I think it is a great idea to try it out on an old pack of playing cards first!
 

FLizarraga

What about a scarf?
 
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