just wanting to share my $6 find!!

Hey Girls and Guys,

Just wanted to share that i know a few of you use the Car washing sponges -
I found a 6 pack of the car Sponges for $6 from a cheap shop (crazy clarks) in Bundaberg. have since cut up 2 of them and they work great and can be used for stippling also they have great full coverage and soft for the skin but its also "textured" in a way that i have found makes for great 5 oclock beard stubble and fur etc.

Hope this can help if anyone is looking for good sponges cheap. (i have to add that i am also in Queensland Australia)

Yeah, I've been cutting up those peanut sponges for a while to get face painting sponges. I've got it to where I can get a dozen half circle sponges out of just one large peanut sponge that is used for washing cars. They come in lots of colors too, so I can color code my sponges so they don't look as stained when they've been washed.

It takes some time and patience to do a good job of cutting them up, but it's well worth the savings!

Seriously, you can get a peanut sponge for $1 not on sale and get 12 sponges out of it. At the same time you can get a premade yellow tack sponge for like $1 on sale and only get 2 sponges out of it when you cut it in half.

In an average day of ppf painting, I go through about 50 - 60 sponges. With using the cut up peanut sponges that is about $5. But using the pre-made yellow tack sponges, that is about $25-$30. When you're a recent college graduate who's still unemployed and barely making it by, those savings are well worth the time spent cutting up those sponges!

yep, ive found using a bread knife gives a great clean cut and i have worked out i can get up to 16 pieces out of it too - i tend to cut a few small ones to keep handy for toddlers and for itty bitty jobs - works a treat

Also, check out The Original Horse Company, online. Look up Tack Sponges. They are the right size, perfect, and cheeeeeeeeep. no cutting (except in half) 5 bucks for a dozen...I have had mine for almost a year.

I have been thinking on using car wash sponges since I can't drop $20 on sponges like that. Can you guys post pics of the car wash sponges that you buy. I've seen a huge yellow car wash sponge in kmart for only $1 I think I can get at least 10 pieces out of it. I'm hoping it's similar to what any of you guys have.

Haha, I was going to post about car wash sponges last night! They're my go-to sponges, I prefer them to the official face painting sponges!

Hey Mika's FABA, those big yellow car wash sponges are exactly what we mean its great!! i now have about 200 sponges in my collection lol

It's great as a 1 sponge per child painter, waaay more cost effective!

Thank you guys sooo much! I'm so happy I can go ahead and use that sponge. Now I have to keep a straight face when the cashier is giving me weird looks when I buy 10 sponges at a time. lol

I never would have thought to buy car wash sponges! Will have to try!

That sounds like a great idea that I never thought of. I like the tip about buying different colors as I don't like people seeing the stained beige sponges either. Great tip! Question though, do most painters use a different sponge for each child? Is that recommended?

I prefer to have clean sponges for each child, for me it just seems "cleaner" and more positive to see someone using a "clean" product on my children - and i know other parents are the same. I guess a lot of it comes from the "just in case that kid might have something" thing we are all ingrained with.

Will you guys post a pic of the kind you got? When I searched I found a lot of different kinds

Mine looked like that before I cut it up, it cost 50p

I got some of those from walmart. Mine was purple and 1.50 but I didnt like it at all. It was very very dense and firm and a little rough. Mabey I just got a bad one

I find cutting sponges really tricky, they end up all wonky on me.

On the topic of tack sponges, has anyone tried these (I'm liking the bright colours, but they look pretty open textured - not sure I'f they'd be good for FP or not): http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Rainbow-Assorted-12-pack-tack-cleaing-sponges-/280711820183

they look ok to me at a $6 price tag, but $38 shipping!!! definitely not worth that!

that's the shipping to Australia. It's a California company selling through Amazon.

oh....lol...it would only be 9.45 in that case..

Which is 4.45 in handling because you know it will come in one of those $5 envelops.

^ yeah, I saw the shipping after I posted the link - would definitely hunt them down from somewhere else rather than pay THAT amount for shipping!!

as for cutting the sponges i use a serated edged bread knife, its sharp, cuts well and is easy to do