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NOW CLOSED: Win It: Green Giveaway Finish Quantum & Jet Dry Ends 5/1

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I’ve used Finish (formerly known as Electrasol) products for many years because I can always get a good deal on these products and they work well. Finish has a new line called Finish Quantum, which delivers on “Leaving Nothing Behind But the Shine.”

The first thing I love about these dishwashing powerballs is there is no plastic wrapper to take off. Have you ever tried to open those things with slightly wet hands?  I end up using my teeth and then have a yucky cleaning taste in my mouth! Last time I purchased dishwashing tablets I accidentially bought those kind.

Besides being wrapper free, they are have a multi chamber system:

  • Powerball with Jet Dry Gel for SHINE
  • Powermax Bleach removes stains like tea and coffee
  • Powerful Enzymes soften burtn on food like lasagna

You may be scratching your head wondering why I’m calling this a green giveaway. You can save on energy by getting your dishes clean the FIRST time. If dishes come out dirty, you are going to have to rewash either by hand or in the dishwasher. Either way, you are using extra energy. So save time and energy by using a product that works the first time around.

jd_turboThe other new product from Finish is Jet Dry Turbo Dry. Do you get annoyed because your dishes come out wet even when the cycle is complete? I didn’t even know they had a product that would help. But they do.  Just use the drying agent in your dishwasher’s rince aid dispenser and you can get that dishwasher unloaded faster and more efficiently!

Hope you picked up a Sunday Paper on 4/19/2009. There was a $2.50 off Finish in the Smart Source Insert. Many stores run $3 or less sale (like Meijer has this week) which make this a stock up deal!

Want to try it? I have (2) Prize Packages for (2) Lucky Readers. Each winner will receive a 12 ct. Finish and a bottle of Jet-Dry Turbo Dry.

How to Win?

Easy Entry: Leave a comment with your biggest dish washing frustration or tip!

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Leave a separate comment for each extra entry. It is very important that you leave a separate comment for each additional extra entry.

Ends around 5/1/2009 at 11:59 EST. (As long as you can still comment you can enter!) Winner, chosen by random.org, will be announced on the Giveaway Winners Page by 05/02/2009 and I will contact you shortly. (If winner doesn’t respond to my email within 48 hours, I will pick another winner.)

Want to win more? Enter to win the rest of my current giveaways!

Comments

  4. currently, my biggest dishwashing frustration is the red film that seems to have gathered on our plasticware

  7. We just ran out of liquid & had some powder detergent. It ends up leaving hardened powder all over our supposed to be clean dishes. Otherwise, water spots would be other issue.

  9. The rinsing or soaking before you load part. I want to load my dishwasher as we are done with our meals. Not load the sink first.

  12. I would really like to win these, I am not sure if it is our water or just our dishwasher (only has a spinny thing on the bottom), but it seems like nothing in our dishwasher gets really clean. We’ve even stopped using our tall glasses because they are gross when they come out. It is so frustrating. The only thing that even works SOME is Cascade Complete–which is so expensive. Blegh.

    Vanderbilt Wifes last blog post..The One Where I Wallow

  13. I hate the water spots on the glasses also having to prewash the dishes before you put them into the dishwasher.

    slk6411 at aol dot com

  19. My dishwasher is pretty good (knock on wood) but I have had bad ones in the past, and I loathe the “rinse before you load” issue. You may as well just wash the dish by hand to begin with!! Thanks!

    nyckristie AT gmail DOT com

    http:// w0wm0m.blogspot.com/

    Kristies last blog post..Mod Tots Giveaway

  24. My biggest dishwashing frustration is having to prerinse no matter what. *Thanks* for the giveaway!

  25. I bought a dishwasher that I thought be be great as advertised.
    Well I love to wash my pans in dishwasher to remove the grease and food particles, since I’m trying not to sink rinse before loading dishwasher. The problem is pans are to tall so have a hard time loading so that the one part will still be able to spin. So I have learned what to look for next time I get to purchase a new dishwasher.

    Thank you so much

    camper223[at]live[dot]com

  28. My best tip: delegate it ;-)

    Dinas last blog post..The Noticer by Andy Andrews: Book Review

  31. My biggest frustration is food still being stuck on the dishes even after they have went through the dishwasher and cups and bowls flipping over in the dishwasher too. Thanks so much for such a wonderful giveaway!

    furygirl3132[at]comcast[dot]net

  36. My biggest frustration is soap left over on the dishes. Sometimes it is clumpy. The dw is only a few years old. So I don’t know if it is the soap or the dw! Thanks for the review.

  39. A big dishwashing frustration I have is when certain family members don’t rinse off dishes. There’s nothing worse than dried on oatmeal.

  41. I think my biggest dishwasher frustraion is this spatulla that I have. It never comes clean, always has eggs stuck on it. Then I have to hand wash it. Maybe I should just get a new spatulla

  42. My biggest frustration is the water marks on my wine glasses. I wonder if this new soap will get rid of it!

  45. My biggest dish washing frustration is not being able to get dried food off plates. It is so frustrating to try to remove dried food at times and drives me crazy. The only tip I really have is if you want your dishes to be as clean as possible to wash them in the sink prior to washing them in the dishwasher. This is a great giveaway and I really hope I win. Thanks.

  46. My Frustration? So i come home one day to find what I thought was steam erupting from my Dishwasher. I was happy my roommates tried to help with dishes. I started to smell something odd. I opened the Dishwasher to find every plastic spatula and long spoon resting, and MELTING, against the heating element at the bottom. Upon pulling the lil cart out to stop the horror, I found a tray of the most vile things that have had to have been there for “God only knows how long.”

    My tip? Soak in extremely hot water for an entire night. Sometimes putting of f dishes till morning is actually a good thing!

  47. My biggest dishwasher frustration is film left of my baby’s bottles and food always left on utensils. I have a dishwasher that states in the manual you do not have to rinse food at all, which is part of its energy star raiting and water saving, but there is ALWAYS food left on if I don’t rinse things almost clean!

    Meghans last blog post..We’re walkin’!

  48. I hate it when my husband just throws the dishes in without rinsing them in. Its called a dishwasher not a garabage disposel.

  51. I belong to your blog. I always have to rewash. Theres always something on the dishes. Sometimes I just wash my dishes by hand to cut out the middle man. Thank You, Linda

  55. I HATE it when stuff falls in the bottom of my dishwasher and clogs up the little drainholes and I have to dig the gunk out or the water won’t drain properly. GROSS!

  61. My biggest frustration is the plasticware that never seems to get dry. Its always still wet when I get ready to unload the dishwasher and I have to hand dry it all.
    Thanks for the chance to win!

  62. My biggest frustration would really be the rest of my family apparently being unaware of HOW to put dishes in the dishwasher..
    After that really its that I cant get them dry well. I don’t use the heat cycle and have lots of plastic bowls so I have to hand dry probably half the dishes.

  64. My biggest dishwashing frustration is that food gets dried on and stuck to the dishes even after I pre-rinse them before I load.

  66. My biggest frustration is having to practically wash the dish before putting in the DISHWASHER!

  67. My biggest dishwashing frustration is that my daughter’s bottles, and everything else plastic, never end up dry.

  69. I hate it when the kids and/or hubby do not rinse cups out after drinking pulpy orange juice. The segments get heated onto the glasses and nearly impossible to scrape off.

  77. I hate it when after I run a load of dishes that some detergents leave a white powdery film on the dishes.

  79. My biggest frustration about the diswasher is that I need someone to load and unload it..he he…..instead of needing a double oven..I need a double dishwasher. Where did all these dishes come from!

  83. My biggest problem is cloudy glasses. I have found that when I use Glass Magic, they come out better.

  84. Biggest frustration would be spoons that don’t get entirely clean.

    Rhonda

  88. Biggest frustration is putting dirty dishes into the dishwasher, and some coming out still not clean.

  90. I think that after all these years they would have started to put a removable grate over the heating element. It frustrates me that I have to take so many extra measures for small items.

  91. My clear glasses never get cleaned. There’s always a cloudy film that I can’t get off. Maybe it’s the hard water. I just don’t know.

  93. I am most frustrated by the fact that my dishes are never ever fully done. Someone is always using another dish.

  94. I hate having food residue left behind and having to re-wash dishes-it would be nice to find a product to take care of that! Thanks!

  96. I get frustrated washing my dishes before I put them into the dishwasher, if I don’t they don’t come out clean and I have to run the dishwasher twice.

    Heathers last blog post..Free Sunglasss Starting May 5th

  99. Can I say my biggest frustration is actually having to DO the dishes? Seriously…don’t like even putting them in the dishwasher, haha. But aside from that I don’t really have anything that bothers me too much…perhaps because I already use Electrasol…err, Finish. But I love them and haven’t actually tried the new version yet.

  103. My biggest frustration is that there is always dirty dishes in the sink! I am the only one who can rinse dishes!

  104. My biggest frustration is all the plastic that never dries! We have 2 toddlers and use a lot of sippy cups so the top rack is always full of plastic that needs to be dried!

  109. If there is any food still stuck on (usually my crockpot), I let the dishes soak overnight with some water & dishsoap. Comes off super easy the next day with NO scrubbing.

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    Leslie

    Leslie M.s last blog post..Mother’s Day Giveaway 2009 YAY

  114. My Biggest dishwashing tip these days is an ECO friendly one!
    LEARN how to load that dishwasher so you can get the MOST dishes in and ONLY run a FULL LOAD!
    I tell my kids the dishwasher I S NOT A GARBAGE DISPOSAL.
    Scrape off the major junk and I DO rinse off the major junk. I guess I’m old school!
    Leslie

    Leslie M.s last blog post..Mother’s Day Giveaway 2009 YAY

  115. We have the world’s worst dishwasher and it takes double soap to get our dishes marginally clean – I want to see if these work better! Thanks!

  117. I just feel like I have to pre-wash all of my dishes—- AGGGGH this would help I hope!

    :)
    steph

  119. Cloudy, white film left on my drinking glasses after they come out of the dishwasher is yucky!

  122. It is all about how you put the dishes in. The amount of dishes and the way they are positioned.

  125. How come my glasses keep getting cloudier! They aren’t dirty, but they appear that way!

  126. My dish washing frustration is when my husband doesn’t rinse his dishes and then he leaves them in the sink. They never come clean the first time that way!

  129. My biggest frustration is when there is water in a cup or dish and I spill it all over the floor! I sure wish they didn’t turn over in the washing process!

  130. My biggest dishwasher frustration was the time my husband used the liquid soap (meant for the sink dishes) in the dishwasher. Did he learn from his mistake? No, he has done this twice! Bubbles all over the kitchen!

    Stefanies last blog post..Juicy Juice House Party

  132. I can’t figure out how to get cooked on eggs (from microwaving them) off my dishes without hand scrubbing them.

  133. Just a note for Stephanie above…my diswasher was also washing without the soap dispenser opeing and Lowe’s told me it is beause the larger cooking spoons and such were too tall in the silverware dispenser on the door, keeping it form opening when the dishwasher is shut. Just a thought.

    Mandi

  134. I hate when both the plastic tubberware always comes out still wet, and when your sippy cup lids drop down to the bottom of the diswasher and get melted by the heated drying element! UHHH!

    Thanks!!

  135. My bigggest frustration is when I open the door after the cycle is over and the door holding my electrosal tab is still closed. It never opened to release the soap so I just ran a whole cylce without the soap. It doesn’t happen every time but I hate that! I have no idea why it happens either.

  136. My biggest frustration with my dishwasher lately are when the cycle is done I open up the door and notice several of the dishes have a film of soap left on them. Does not always happen just on occassion. Then I have to re-run those items through in the next load….Bummer!!

    Tanyas last blog post..Tunes 4 The CARS Lovers…..

  137. The problem I am having lately is that my top rack are staying wet in the glasses and the silverware are not coming out clean after each run.

  139. My biggest challenge is that the glasses don’t get clean sometimes. Also, that there is not a robotic arm to load it for me so I don’t have to touch the yucky stuff. 8-)

  142. My biggest frustration is the constant pile of dishes! They keep coming. That and too many things that can’t go into the dishwasher :(

  143. I hate when the cups or bowls get full of water and I don’t notice it until I try and remove them. Then it’s water everywhere!

  146. My biggest frustration? When my husband loads the dishwasher! I mean, I’m DELIGHTED he wants to help, but when things are stacked inefficiently and the dishwasher is run 1/2-1/3 full? I get a little annoyed. We’re working on it ;-)

    joannas last blog post..Comic Truth

  147. I love making homemade mashed potatoes! But hate the mess left in the pot! No matter how long it soaks .. if I don’t use an SOS pad .. it won’t come clean! YUK! But I won’t give up making them :)

  148. My biggest frustration is when the cups turn over and dirty water is left in them!

  149. My biggest frustration about dishes is that they are NEVER done! I really feel as if we are constantly using dishes, especially with young children, and it is never-ending, I tell ya’! Thanks for the giveaway!

  152. My tip is to put a little white vinegar in the dishwasher when it is rinsing. I never have spots on my glasses because of this. It also keeps my dishwasher clean.

  153. I need help for solving why sometimes my glasses and dishes come out gritty feeling. YUK We do have soft water.
    THANKS!

  155. My biggest frustration is when dishes don’t come out clean from the dishwasher!

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  156. I don’t have any dish washing tips but I do have a frustration that maybe these can solve my problems. Whenever I do not clean off every dish (literally, wipe off ANY food particles, which is like washing my dishes twice) tiny food particles get stuck to my glasses (or anything made of glass) on the top shelf. It is so frustrating. It’s completely hit or miss and I end up having to rewash them and sometimes even after the second time it’s still there so I have to waste more washing them by hand. I really would prefer not to have to wash every glass item I own (like half of my items!) by hand. I really do need a green makeover!!

    • have you taken out the filter cover and cleaned out under it…..it gets yucky
      Barb

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