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Being the idiot that I usually am, I had done something really stupid yesterday morning. I was trying to add a few things to my to-do list on my dry erase board in the office. I mistakenly used a permanent marker on the board instead of a dry erase marker. I asked my girl friend if she had any ideas to erase it and she said its “permanent” and you can’t erase it . She suggested that I could use some ethanol to make it lighter. I was even getting ready to ask one of my colleagues to get some ethanol from the chemistry lab. But, before that, I wanted to see what Google had to say about it.

I googled “how to erase permanent marker from dry erase board” and viola I got 122,000 results. I clicked one link that sent me to Lifehacker (one of my favorite blogs) and it had a really simple solution (from Wikihow) involving 3 simple steps.

1. Get a dry erase marker (yes, you make marks to take marks away) and a dry eraser. The darker the color of marker you use, the easier the marks will disappear.
2. Draw over what you want to erase (make sure you draw slowly to fill it in better).
3. Erase what you’ve written over as you normally would. Surprise! It erases.

I actually just used a tissue to wipe it off and it all came out clean. Not even a spot or residue. I am completely impressed. This made me realize that I should trust the internet, no matter how stupid the idea is ) .