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It was a Saturday night and I [Joe] had just finished staining my kitchen cabinets with gel stain.<\/p>\n

I was feeling pretty pleased with myself for tackling such a big project, but as I stood back to admire my handiwork, I realized that the gel stain wasn’t quite as dry as I had thought. There were still a few sticky spots that I had missed when I wiped off the excess.<\/p>\n

I was tempted to just leave it and let it dry overnight, but something in the back of my mind told me that wasn’t a good idea.<\/p>\n

I had heard that gel stain<\/a> can take a while to dry and I didn’t want to risk messing up all my hard work by accidentally smudging it while I was asleep.<\/p>\n

So, I grabbed a hair dryer and set to work drying those last few sticky spots. It was a tedious process, but I was determined to get it done.<\/p>\n

As I was blow drying the last cabinet door, my husband walked into the kitchen and asked me what the heck I was doing.<\/p>\n

“Trying to dry this gel stain,” I said, a little bit sheepishly. “I don’t want to mess it up by letting it sit overnight.”<\/p>\n

My husband just chuckled and shook his head. “You can leave gel stain<\/a> to dry overnight, you know,” he said. “It’s not going to mess anything up.”<\/p>\n

Well, I’ll be darned. I had spent the last hour blow drying my cabinets for nothing. But hey, at least I can say I put in the extra effort to make sure those cabinets<\/a> were perfect.<\/p>\n

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