WARNING!!! for anyone who bought Dollar Tree Pot holders and oven Mittsupdated

[NYCDiane]

Just so everyone reading this thread knows, not speaking to the rude people who want to attack me for buying items at the dollar tree and if they want to debate Dollar Store Purchasing start your own thread. This one is about a potholder warning.

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BF... ignore the negative posters. I, for one, am glad you posted this and I commend you for taking the extra steps to notify the CPSC as well as Dollar Tree corporate.

Thank you!

 

[Debbie7452]

Hey OP, I think your gift combo was a great gift. Yuck about the melty pot holder! My kids teachers only got the cookie mix, with a cookie cutter and sprinkles tied on attractively with a bow. There have been a lot of threads about unhappy teacher gifts here on the DIS and it makes me sad to read them...

I tried to give a "consummable" gift that wouldn't be a burden to them and would fit into the family budget, too.

 

[MickeyMomOfThree]

Whatever happened to "it's the thought that counts?" I think if the whole gift was a potholder it would have been nice, because it was a GIFT. I was given 3 gifts from kids in my GS troops (I have 2 troops.) One was potholder (Walmart though or I would have really appreciated this post even more.) Another was a dishtowel and an ormanent, and the last was a ceramic candle holder that was Disney. All of them were very sweet because I knew it maent the family though enough of me to include me in their gift giving. It was not necessary, but very kind.

I am going out now to buy the bus drivers gifts, and I am only looking to spend a few dolalrs each. It doesn't man I don't appreciate them taking my kids to school safely every day, in fact quite the opposite. I am thinking of them and want to give thema token gift to let them know I appreciate them, but I am not looking to break the bank either.

OP, thanks for posting. I buy a lot of things at Dollar Tree. This year I made pot holders with all my Sirl Scouts (as well as with our preschoolers at work) for their parent's Christmas gifts (handprint Santas). I would have bought them in a heartbeat at Dollar Tree except that I found them 2/$1 at Walmart.

 

[Imzadi]

I would never expect anything I bought at the Dollar Tree to be any good- thats why they sell it for !.00!

What is the starting price for things to be expected to work and manufacturers be held accountable for the item to serve the basic function for which they are made?

 

[happygirl]

Just so everyone reading this thread knows, not speaking to the rude people who want to attack me for buying items at the dollar tree and if they want to debate Dollar Store Purchasing start your own thread. This one is about a potholder warning.

The ADA seal is not required by law to be on toothpaste or any other dental product, it is a voluntary. The FDA approves toothpaste to be safe to use in the US market. So just because a product does not have a ADA seal does not necessarily make it a bad product it has either not been summitted to the ADA for approval or it has not completed the process. There are alot of good products on the market that are not ADA approved.

http://jada.ada.org/cgi/content/full/137/2/267

No toothpaste is safe to swallow. Fluoride is a poison in large quantities and is very unstable once added to toothpastes and rinses, what that means is, it starts to break down and loses it effectiveness so basically what the ADA does is test to make sure that the Fluoride is stable and will not lose it effectiveness in the product it puts it's seal on.

I am a dental hygienist by the way.


I do intend to take the potholders I have ( 3) back to Dollar Tree as well as call corporate to try and get them recalled. I will post Monday after I talk with DT Corporate as to what transpires.

Thanks for keeping us updated

 

[Jockaroo]

Thanks for the warning. My mom collects gingerbread men items and I saw a cute oven mitt and towel at Dollar Tree I got for her. Of course, I have no idea how I wrapped it so I'll have to warn her it is for decorative purposes only.

Oven mitts should not melt. I get kitchen sets from Walmart where the per-price item is less than $1 each and I have never had one of these items melt. I get these sets because it is an inexpensive way to change up my kitchen and when the towels and pot holders get stained and dingy I can toss them with no sense of guilt. I'm glad you were not injured. Know your warning probably helped prevent several others from getting hurt.

 

[Robinrs]

WoW! I'm glad you're not my child's teacher...unless of course the class you teach is snobbery and superciliousness...then you would probably get teacher of the year. Have a Merry Christmas and enjoy all of those cards you get!

Oh my God you took the words right out of my mouth. How petty and cruel...

BF, I appreciate your warning, your gift AND your posts. The DIS is know for the naysaying snots, it's why I hardly ever go to the CB anymore. Too many people saying things they wouldn't dare say to someone's face.

 

[Blue.Fairy2]

Thanks for the warning. My mom collects gingerbread men items and I saw a cute oven mitt and towel at Dollar Tree I got for her. Of course, I have no idea how I wrapped it so I'll have to warn her it is for decorative purposes only.

Oven mitts should not melt. I get kitchen sets from Walmart where the per-price item is less than $1 each and I have never had one of these items melt. I get these sets because it is an inexpensive way to change up my kitchen and when the towels and pot holders get stained and dingy I can toss them with no sense of guilt. I'm glad you were not injured. Know your warning probably helped prevent several others from getting hurt.

weren't the gingerbread ones cute! I bought half those and half snowmen.

I think the pot holders would be ok for using with top of the stove things just not inside the oven.

I am going to add another picture...the cookie sheet with the pot holder still stuck to it.

 

[luvmy3]

Wow, thank goodness your hand wasn't burned. Thanks for the warning I know my Grandmother buys oven mitts at the dollae store, I'm going to get her some others and make her throw the ones she has away.

 

[mum4jenn]

WOW!!!! THat really melted a lot!!! YOu are very lucky you did not get burned.

 

[patsal]

BF Thanks for the warning! How horrible and I am glad you are not injured.

As a teacher I am sad to hear other teachers who complain about gifts they have rec'd. Any gift shows you that someone is thinking of you. You should be grateful for that. As a high school teacher gifts are very few and often far between so anything that is gifted to me is always treasured. True the notes and cards are most often the most precious thing I get, but to be offended by a potholder seems way too pretentious to me. OP's gift was very thoughtful and over all very costly to her. The way I view it, even if it were just one potholder, it would be just one more potholder that I would not have to go and buy for myself!

 

[momx2]

Thanks OP for posting. I don't have any of the potholders, but never thought to worry about this happening.

Yes, there are some teachers on here who seem to have a sense of entitlement about gifts. I read the same stuff year after year. I am just really glad that my girls don't have these types of teachers. There was one in the second grade that one of my DDs had, but just one, thank goodness, that you could tell was keeping score. I'm glad it's the few, not the many.

I know this will offend some of you, but after all these years, I really just don't care. Maybe you should not expect anything and be glad for what you get for a change. Most of us work full-time and don't get presents at Christmas from anyone, but family. Why should you be so different. I'm sorry, probably going overboard, but I'm just sick of reading it year after year on the Dis!

 

[Hannathy]

Before you throw all your potholders from the Dollar store away I might check them. I have a couple I just bought last week from there and have been using them successfully since then. I Am wondering what the one you had that melted was made out of? The few I bought are 100% cotton and have been working just fine, used 2 this afternoon to take things out of the oven and Friday for hot Pizza pans.

So before chucking them all check, there are probably different lots and materials out there at different stores, distribution areas.

I think your teacher gifts were very nice and I agree with the previous poster about being sick of the sense of entitlement I read about on here from teachers and gifts. I think it is time to just not get them anything, since how often to your customers bring you something at work? and most at least where I live are very highly paid,making more than my family.

 

[SandrA9810]

I think any teacher that has a high impact on your kid deserves something. In middle school, and most of high school I didn't like most of my classes or teachers. But I did have a really good math teacher in 8th grade, and I just caught on so well to math that year that I managed to get to pre calc at the end of high school. Which was the most advance class I took since I greatly wanted to get out with little effort as possible.


Any case... that looks kinda scary. I think that cotton batting in the middle protected you. But I would be extremely careful of anything made with polyester cause that's essentially plastic and can melt on you. Cotton might not always protect you from the heat (I have some that are fairly flimsy that i fold over), but at least it won't burn or melt on you.

 

[eeyorethegreat]

Blue, here is the link to Consumer Product Safety Commission report form offer in your description to forward photos of the incident to them. Thanks SO MUCH for posting this. I bought pot holders as weel but right now can't remember if it was Dollar Tree or Family Dollar.... https://www.cpsc.gov/cgibin/incident.aspx

As for those downing the OP for where she bought her products, chill out, I have had pot holders and oven mits bought for far more than a dollar that did the very same thing these did. Again Blue thanks for the warning!

weren't the gingerbread ones cute! I bought half those and half snowmen.

I think the pot holders would be ok for using with top of the stove things just not inside the oven.

I am going to add another picture...the cookie sheet with the pot holder still stuck to it.

 

[Blue.Fairy2]

I made a report to the CPSC yesterday as per the suggestion earlier. There was not an option to forward pictures unless I missed it somehow. They do ask for phone number and ask that you keep item for 30 days.

 

[hercamore]

Gglad you reported this to the CSPC.

wow, those are scary pictures.

I am going to let my 82 y.o. dad know about the defective pot holders. He does a lot of shopping at the dollar store, and this is something he would purchase.He lives alone and cooks 3x a day still.

herc.

 

[eeyorethegreat]

I made a report to the CPSC yesterday as per the suggestion earlier. There was not an option to forward pictures unless I missed it somehow. They do ask for phone number and ask that you keep item for 30 days.

Good I am clad you contacted them! I know there wasn't a link for photos I just meant that if you hadn't reported it already you could mention that you also had photos Let us know if you get a call from them! HAve a super holiday!!

 

[Blue.Fairy2]

Good I am clad you contacted them! I know there wasn't a link for photos I just meant that if you hadn't reported it already you could mention that you also had photos Let us know if you get a call from them! HAve a super holiday!!

I believe I did mention it.

I have called Dollar Tree and all I have gotten is voice mail

 

[smkiya]

Glad you're ok. I hope you get a good response from corporate.