Make-up brushes + Microwave oven = Very Bad Idea

 

I thought I was being so resourceful. 

I didn’t have a vehicle this weekend so I figured that since I was stuck at home I’d use the time to read and clean house.   

Having read all day Saturday, I was now ready to clean today.  I did quite a good job I thought and the place was feeling much lighter. 

I was almost finished and decided that I’d extend my cleaning efforts to my make-up brushes.   I gathered about seven of them including my favourite big powder brush, washed them in shampoo and hot water as usual. 

Normally, I’d just lay them flat to dry in the bathroom.  Every now and then though, I’d get a flash of what seems like brilliance and I had one such this evening.

So I flashed out the excess water and wondered to myself, Why can’t the microwave oven be used in a similar manner to a clothes dryer?  I thought some more about it and didn’t see any harm, so feeling quite pleased with myself for coming up with this stroke of genius, I gathered them all, put them on a sheet of hand-towel, set the oven for 5 minutes and went back to wiping the floor.

 I was almost through when I notice the smell of something burning.  Wrinkling my nose I went out to the kitchen, saw that smoke was coming from the microwave oven.

My brushes were ruined.  In thinking about it, I didn’t remember that the handles were made of some type of plastic material.

As I said, I thought I was being resourceful…..