"How many of us can relate?" Topic

We're not the only ones with this problem:

Happened to me once or twice. I now have special place for my coffee mug…

Yep, I keep whatever I am drinking on a separate table so this sort of thing never happens! :)

Damon.

Have been known to dip my paint brush in my tea once or twice. Now cleaning water goes on the left drinks on the right. Oh, and never use the same type of container for drinks and to hole brush cleaning water.

Why is it so hard to use a cup for your tea and an old wornout Tupperware container for your paint water?

It's a good thing that OSHA does not do Hobby Table inspections.
some would be shut down.

This is right up there with not reading the label on spray cans. "Oh, damn! I meant to Dullcote the figures, and instead I sprayed them all with black primer!"

I have dipped my paint brush in my drink plenty of times.

I use an ovaltine jar for my paint water. It isn't anything like my glass. If I put my glass to my right it has about a 10% chance of getting a paint brush in it at some point.

Only once… Now I don't Drink While Painting – so there's only two glasses on the table: paint wash, and clean water.

For spray cans, I put a band of bright orange warning tape around the top of the Primer can. That came after one accident with primer…

Couple of times…and I even use a pair of old mason jars for my water and can still manage to drop a brush in a cup of coffee. Sheesh! :)

I have one of those rinse wells …ended that problem . Note : ended problem paint water tastes terrible .

I use mason jars.

Dr. Pepper glass is FAR AWAY from paint water.

I never have a drink on the same table as painting/prepping/glueing – but that's because of my complete inability to not knock it over onto valuable stuff.

Even paint water goes into a low margarine or sour cream container, giving my forearm less of a target and being less tippable.

It happened me once. Cleaned my brush in the coffee and try to drink the water where I had been cleaning my brush!

I can't relate anymore. I use a wet pallette and Reaper paints now, so there is no painting water.

Also, I usually drink beer while painting, not coffee.

"Why is it so hard to use a cup for your tea and an old wornout Tupperware container for your paint water?"

It would not help at least ME… (;-)). I cleaned my brush in the coffee, but fortunately (other than a friend of mine, almost twenty years younger ! ;-)) I did NOT drink from the jar with cleaning water. The point is not, not to be able to see the difference. The point is to do (or want to do or used to do) two things, but switch the different ways of doing them (drink coffee or clean brush).

Been there, done that which is one of the reasons the beverage goes on a coaster to my left and the paint water is on my right.

pjm

What me! I've been known to use my coffee as a tint for certain colours :) inadvertently of course but quite a nice accident on beige or white.
Yip. Even with my cup and paint container totally different to each other.
Cheers and happy painting, oh and has any one ever got the ol lipstick look from 'that' mistake :)

Not a problem if you use enamels, unless you are a meths drinker, in which case your hand would be shaking too much to be able to paint anyway!

Haven't had that problem. The cup with vodka and grapefruit soda is a 16 ouncer and pink, hard to mix up with a 6 ounce yogurt container or a 1 ounce bottle of thinner.

Now I have inadvertently reloaded a brush with paint while intending to clean it. Then scramble to find something primed that I wanted to paint that color so as not to waste the paint.

I use one of the non spill water containers used in UK junior schools for my rinse water. I couldn't drink from it if I tried. I have rinsed a brush or two in tea. It isn't very good for getting paint out from the ferrule !

It's surely only inviting disaster to use exactly the same type of receptacle for both.

I can't drink coffee while painting -- makes my hands a wee bit unsteady. I might try tea, as I do enjoy a warm beverage on a snowy weekend afternoon.

On the subject of unpalatable beverages, my father swears that he once saw a plumber use his steel ruler to unblock a drain pipe and then use it to stir his coffee.

I use the plastic cups that baking cups come in for my painting water. They are surprisingly stable. I haven't had a spill since I started using them. And they look nothing like my tea mug or my soda glass.

I use non-spill cups like Elenderil, and for coffee, have gigantic tall mugs (20 oz). I don't fill them all the way; I use them because they are impossible to slosh spill when walking around, and also, come to think of it, are hard to mistake for water jars only a third of their height.

A can of Coke is hard to mistake for a plastic cup full of murky water

DON'T DRINK AND PAINT!!!

I use an old jelly jar. In the past, when painting at work, I used (obviously readily disposable) cut-down fast food cups. Neither are much like anything I drink out of (well, after modification of the latter).

While I have also dipped my brush into my beverage untold times, I have yet to drink paint water.

Shouldn't drink coffee while painting anyway. You'd get all jittery and your brush would be dancing all over. (That might be a plus when painting camo, however…. ;-)

Paint brushes are hard to rinse in beer bottles.

Yep, done it before. Will probably do it again (no matter how hard I try not to…).

My "bench" is actually a large, solid core door. I keep my brush cup on the far side and have to lean over a bit to reach it. I do this so I won't drink from it…again.

Not my problem see TMP link

In my younger days (while chewing tobacco), I used to have two beer bottles, one in each hand…yeah, you know where that ended up. I only did it once though.

If I see myself washing rinsing a brush in my coffee, I just drive on. Ain't gonna kill this Kentuckian.