Don't Buy Foam Brushes at Walmart!

I bring you this warning as a public service. Not all disposable foam brushes are created equal, and the foam brushes from Walmart are absoulte crap. I put on my first coat of varnish yesterday with my last two foam brushes from Home Depot. That evening, I went to my local Walmart store and I bought 8 foam brushes, which I thought would get me through the next two coats and then some. That was incredibly optomistic.

The heads start to fall off the sticks after you cover about two square feet of surface. I was able to extend the life of them a little by almost ignoring the stick entirely and gripping the foam protion in my fingers. Even the foam would start to break down eventually. I went through all eight brushes for one coat.

Tonight I went to the Home Depot and stocked up. I think their foam brushes are a whopping 5 cents more than the ones at Walmart. It is typical of Walmart to provide the absolute cheapest product in every way, in the form of the lowest price and the lowest quality. I feel a full blown 1,000 word anti-Walmart rant coming on, so I will stop now.