This isn't a "green" tip, unless you figure in the toxins you'd use to refinish good wooden furniture if you didn't know about it -- but I had to share it. My lovely daughter, while making me a card telling me how much she loved me (ok, I feel really guilty about getting angry with her...), accidentally got sharpie marker all over our wood-finished built-in bookshelves today. That's it, I told my husband, the marker is here to stay. But after an internet search, I found a wonderful tip to remove permanent marker of all kinds from good furniture. It's a product called Magic Erase (there's also a Safeway brand, which is the one I used). With a small amount of elbow grease ALL of the marker came easily off the wood without harming the finish (like mineral spirits and alcohol do). And there were no toxic fumes or residues. Wow. Had to share.
