Apparently using an iron on a white cloth, moving the iron back and forth, removes white rings. I googled "remove white rings on furniture," and several sites with good tips are crowing about success with this method, even on antiques. (If you try it, please google it first and read about how to do it.)

Duane - You make some good points and it is nice to have a male weigh in. I think you represent a lot of guys who prefer to see women looking natural. My DH's reaction to my vibrant polish was, "Whoa! You have girl toes!" From what I've gleaned from the posts on this forum, more women here would prefer a good chef's knife to an expensive designer bag and spend more time making breads and jams than fussing with elaborate beauty regimes. I think this post got so many replies because it is timely - it's summer, meaning for most of us our toes are just coming out of hiding - and it's just fun to hear about what other women do. I wrote about my DD who finds it relaxing to give herself a weekly pedicure. Fact is, other than that, sunscreen and lip gloss are the only "makeup" she wears. I think many of us perform some of these beauty routines less to impress men, but as a little indulgence.

Athelete Foot is a fungus and some folks are more suseptable to fungal infection than others. Humans do not aquire an immunity to the fungus, therefore, after quelling a bout of the fungus, you can become infected again. The only deterrent I personally have is to avoid setting my bare feet on places were the fungus may lurk. Places that are notorious are public showers and swimming pools, flooring around hot tubs, and bathrooms used by another infected person. Another source is your own shoes especially those worn while you were infected. You can be infected for some time before you may notice it. There are 2 foot powders that I have found that have been effective in treating shoes as a preventive measure. These are Desenex and Tinactin. Both have anitfungal ingreedients. Most other foot powders are just foot powders and do not contain anitfungal agents. Most often, you will find these anti-fungal products packaged as a spray; I prefer the dry powder container because the spray-can does not contain as much product. Five years ago, after avoiding infection for many years, I got the infection under my great toe nail. My podiatrist gave me two options: Treat it with Lamisil or permanent removal of my toe nails. The Lamisil treatment (via pills) is lengthy. I forgot how long, maybe 6 weeks or more. The treatment must be continued without interruption until eradication is assured, else it can come roaring back worse than ever and with the danger of having greater resistance to the medication. A test of your liver function should be made during the early phase of the medication period.

Renosarefun - we used the lights from Enviromental Lights and I've been extremely pleased with them so far. They are rated at 190 lumens for the 12" strip. If I'm prepping at the counter rather than the island, these are absolutely bright enough. Dimming will add significantly to your cost, but we opted to do that also because I use them both as working lights and ambient lighting. They dim well also. If you email them with your layout, they will put together everything for you in a cart and mark up the layout to show what they put together so that you can just place the order and have everything you need. If you go with them, don't forget to get the 5% discount that they offer on orders. Here is a link that might be useful: Enviromental Lights - LED strips