That half-dried tube of ultramarine taught me a lesson

I always squeezed paint from the middle of the tube, and then wondered why half of it dried up crusty. Last week I grabbed a tube of ultramarine from our swap bin here, and a note inside said "roll from the bottom, fold the end." So I tried it, and now I get every last bit of paint with no waste. Has anyone else had a basic habit like that totally flipped by a random note?

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lilychen18d ago

My grandfather wrote that exact note on a tube of burnt sienna forty years ago.

lee_grant9717d ago

Yeah, that note trick totally saved me too @lilychen...