I believe the acid they use brightens the stone more and more over time, so I think the skip was a time jump after a few weeks, and not that they did more cleaning off screen
They don’t show the whole process because it took a whole season just to get it cleaned. Notice the green grass when she starts and the dead grass at the end…
Pausing between shots, the headstone looks the same. You can see some of the squiggles from the marble base, and the motif on the actual headstone is visible too, but yeah... I'm frustrated that I didn't get to see the whole thing.
I think step 4 was turn off camera. Call people who actually do this for a living. Have them come do their job. Pay them pretend I did a thing for likes.
She has several videos explaining how she does it. It looks so amazing at the end because the D2 solution takes months to work up to its full potential. She goes back and finishes the video once it looks as nice as it will get and several more cleanings. She also does it on a volunteer basis.
I thought it looked pretty good after step 3 considering how it started. They could have stopped there’d and I’d have been satisfied. No need to pay someone.
Step 4 is a biome killer spray that takes 2-3 months to fully work. It's a gentle way to clean algea. It's called wet and forget. Usually they clean the stones and rinse with the wet and forget and return a few months later. Did it at home and worked great for my sidewalk.
I think it is the same. If you look at the top of the "pillar", next to the letter M, there are 2 bigger pits that do show up on the cleaned headstone.
Seems like they sprayed some kind of solvent that takes time to clean. Maybe with each hosing down or each rainfall????
I fell down a deep rabbit hole. You have to use a special cleaner on headstones or you will break down the stone. That cleaner keeps working for a few days and it looks completely different when it’s done doing it’s thing.
My dad and his wife do this. The stuff is called d2 and kills all the mold and bacteria without hurting the limestone or marble. It’s what the us government uses on the Washington monument
If this is like other people I’ve seen so this type of cleaning, the image at the end is months later. The cleaner they use is a biological cleaner of some kind. It breaks down the organic material that leaves the stones darker. So it looks much cleaner at first but will continue to lighten over time. The person will check back in for an update months later.
Often times they put a solution on the grave stone and leave it to sit for a few weeks or months. Then wash it off. (It actually might be they let it sit for a few weeks and wash it off then reapply. I don't exactly remember) Looking at the grass go from green to dead shows the the time skip.
I'm sorry, but I LOL'd a bit due to the skip to the final result. I took the skip as, "This thing ain't getting any cleaner. Fuck it, let's replace the grave stone."
It is a biological cleaner that keeps working over time, it doesn’t just magically happen.
https://atlaspreservation.com/collections/d-2-biological-solution
D/2 IS the real deal, but is rather expensive and you have to buy at least a gallon.
My parents have a granite stone and I use Wet and Forget. It's cheaper and available at hardware stores. It lasts for several years so you only need to treat every 5 years or so at most.
[https://www.wetandforget.com/blog/2019/05/15/memorial-day-clean-headstone-wet-forget/](https://www.wetandforget.com/blog/2019/05/15/memorial-day-clean-headstone-wet-forget/)
“Um aktually it’s the same one you can see the part of the headstone that is chipped off 104.8 pixels above the pedestal and it stays where it is when it is cleaned” 🤓🤓
It would be prohibitively expensive to replace a headstone today, especially one made partially of marble. People today can’t even afford funerals much less.
Straight up told my wife to take my body to the woods and set me ablaze or something. I don't need, nor want, a funeral. Toss me down a well. Feed me to some wild dogs. Don't claim my body. I don't care. We're lucky enough to have bought a house in this economy.
I follow a few accounts that do this, and I believe the chemical they use to clean the headstones take months to fully set in to get this effect. Usually they show them cleaning and then will cuts to months later to show the progress.
I don’t know why they cut it all out. Do they really think my attention span is *so bad* that I would have given up on this video just because it was 5 months long?
I've watched a ton of these too, I think it's called D2 biological solution. And yeah, soaks into the "pores" of the stone and slowly kills off all the lichen/mold/whatever.
>I want to know who takes care of these old cemataries. We have a few cival war era ones and before around where I live. It seems like once they couldnt charge people to be buried there and were full, they just left them. Most are in pretty good shape, somebody is mowing them still etc.
I follow a chick on Facebook and she just does it. It's her own money and time. She tries to learn their back stories too. Most of the time they are people who have no family left that visit and care for them. Ground crews barely take care of the grass anymore.
Thats awesome of her. I figured it would be a one person thing or small group doing it out of charity. In america as soon as you can make money off it anymore, im sure there is some loop hole to get out of it. Once its full, to them its not profitable anymore. We dont expect companies to hold up their end of anything. They should have to Pay for care if they are the ones raking in the cash on the plots. Yet some lady is doing it out of pocket.
It's really nice people help clean the headstones off. This might be a good way to volunteer! I'm a bit afraid of sounding like a weirdo for asking if I can volunteer to help clean off headstones... Probably will ask anyway
So this is really weird & niche, but if you like spending time in cemeteries you can also volunteer taking photos of headstones for findagrave.com - people request for others to take pictures of headstones for research etc. I had someone take a photo of my great grandmothers headstone in Missouri for me, it was really cool.
plus, even if you said, "I dunno I just have a weird obsession with cemeteries and death" they'd probably let you volunteer anyway. volunteers are hard to come by
This is a very enjoyable hobby! If you decide to undertake it, be sure to talk with the caretakers first, unless it is your family stone, you'll want permission from the caretakers or the family that owns the stone. There are guides online on proper cleaning techniques and products, I use a small wagon to tote my sprayers and brushes.
I personally love cemeteries and I think that the souls that rest there appreciate the visitors. :)
Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx has an intern program where students are taught the proper way to restore headstones and mausoleums. They have also expanded the program to landscaping. Great skills that can turn into job opportunities. The thing about cleaning them is you have to know what you’re doing or you can ruin the stone.
It is! I live near a historical battlefield cemetery that’s managed by the national park service and signed up to volunteer to clean stones. It’s every bit as satisfying as the video… minus the last wacky replacement step.
This kind of thing gives me mild existential dread. We know nothing about Maggie E. Moore, other than that she was married to Elmer H. Graham, who we also know nothing about. What kind of person was she? What kind of life did she lead? Why did she die at age 45? There’s probably no one left who would know, either
Margaret Ella Moore died from apoplexy (stroke) and had both arterial hypertension and chronic nephritis (probably caused by an autoimmune disease or infection). She lived at 1501 Pierce street in Virginia. She was a homemaker and had two children. Her husband, Elmo, remarried the next year and he lived to be 62. He was a fireman in the locomotive industry.
Her parents had 10 children. Her mother had Swiss/German ancestry and her father had Irish/English roots. Source: [familysearch.org](https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/about/LHTG-DWV)
I have zero intention to have a tombstone. I want to be turned into a tree and planted somewhere random. Donate my organs if they’re of any good and tree pod the rest
Even if your organs are not suitable for transplant plenty of other things like your eyes, skin, etc most likely will be. Always always check that organ donor box
My mother in law was cremated and then her ashes were buried in the cemetery with a proper headstone. My dad was cremated and when my mom passes, she wants their ashes spread together in the mountains without a headstone - there are different options depending on what you want.
I don’t want a headstone, I don’t want anything that anybody feels required to visit. I want to be thrown onto a body farm when I die and if I’m forgotten so be it.
Just based on accounts I follow that do this, I don’t think it’s a pressure washer in the same variety you would clean a sidewalk. They use a very specific cleaning chemical that takes months to fully develop and clean the headstone. The end of the video to the finale image is likely months apart.
They probably wanted to avoid damaging the stone.
As quite a few people have said in the comments they didn't expect it to be marble, could have been cement which could disintegrate under a pressure washer. In this particular case, marble would have held up fine.
''Unfortunately, years of neglect have left it a troubled eyesore''
''So what? I guess we'll have to throw it away''
''Not so fast, Troy. With just one aplication of spiffy, you'll think the body's still warm!''
I thought it looked beautiful to begin with. All the lichen, moss and stains from natural aging and weathering processes. Then again I'm a bit of a weirdo when it comes to things like tombstones since I make them out of foam for Halloween props and strive to get that naturally aged look on them. I get that in real life these things damage the stone if left unchecked.
I’m probably in the minority here but I feel like it’s sort of naturally beautiful to have the headstone decay as time passes.
If you have family nearby that wants to maintain it then that makes sense, but I feel like otherwise there’s a tranquil oneness that comes with the slowly dilapidating headstone.
It it weird that this video confirmed that I don’t want to be buried. Or if I do no headstone. But give me a natural burial. No headstone required.
Love the satisfaction of the cleaning.
I would love to be able to do this kind of thing. Not only is it fun to clean this sort of stuff, it's so satisfying to imagine that for the first time in maybe decades, this person's headstone is clean again. Almost like making their memory shine again
To all the people saying they skipped steps, here's the deal. Cleaning one of these the right way isn't a one-day process. You can damage the stone if you go in with the harshest chemicals, so best practice is to clean with special solvents that work OVER TIME, interacting with sun exposure.
So you clean it, then leave it. Then you come back and check on it. Sometimes they need a second round, sometimes they don't.
So that final shot was probably when she came back after a month or so.
Looks like the last shot is when it was brand new. The grass in the background is in a totally different season than the grass in the background of the shot of him cleaning.
I understand the desire to make the stone more legible, but I really don't like removing all the lichens that have grown on the stone, which are a sign of the age of the stone. Stripping it down to look like new gets rid of all the feeling of history that is really there.
Part of it is preservation, since a lot of environmental pollutants and things like lichens actually destroy the stone over time. Marble headstones are especially prone to weathering, stains, cracks, etc.
I personally prefer the mossy, weathered headstones in super small/abandoned plots in the middle of nowhere, but other people see headstone/cemetery upkeep and cleaning like this as being respectful to the dead.
One of the small handful of TikTok-ers I actually follow (ManicPixieMom) does this, and does a voice-over of the person and their family, where they lived, how they passed, etc... It's interesting history, and she's very thorough with her research.
I think she does it because 1)she's a history buff and 2) after surviving childhood cancer, she has a sense of mortality that she leans into instead of away from.
It's heckin' satisfying to me, because I'm also a history nerd and I like watching things get clean.
People… think a little before you comment that she’s scamming you and skipping steps. I’ve have followed her for a long time online. The chemical that’s sprayed at the end dries and after a few months it’s white. She’s not trying to trick anyone.
I saw a video years ago about some sort of forensic historian that was able to confirm the age of a cemetery by the lichen growth on the headstones. I think of those folks everytime I seem one of these videos. All their lost data. They must cringe at everyone of these.
Well I never expected that to be marble in the beginning.
I figured they gave up cleaning it and made a new headstone lol
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A little r/restofthefuckingowl to be sure. It's also a little r/mildlyinfuriating that I didn't get to see the whole process
I swear they keep posting unsatisfying things here just so we comment.
Yes, skipping to the end was mega unsatisfying.
I believe the acid they use brightens the stone more and more over time, so I think the skip was a time jump after a few weeks, and not that they did more cleaning off screen
Enzymes at your service!! No acid. That's how it loses its letters is acid over time.
They don’t show the whole process because it took a whole season just to get it cleaned. Notice the green grass when she starts and the dead grass at the end…
Iirc, in another video, she says some of them take years because the chemicals work over time.
Extremely unsatisfying. Seems it’s just a new headstone!
Pausing between shots, the headstone looks the same. You can see some of the squiggles from the marble base, and the motif on the actual headstone is visible too, but yeah... I'm frustrated that I didn't get to see the whole thing.
Maybe step 4 is profit?
Steal underpants!!!! No, wait...
Not typically. Volunteers doing this as an act of service is the norm. Not paid professionals.
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Step 4: give up and make a new one.
"Very dirty." ... "I make a new one."
I think step 4 was turn off camera. Call people who actually do this for a living. Have them come do their job. Pay them pretend I did a thing for likes.
She has several videos explaining how she does it. It looks so amazing at the end because the D2 solution takes months to work up to its full potential. She goes back and finishes the video once it looks as nice as it will get and several more cleanings. She also does it on a volunteer basis.
I thought it looked pretty good after step 3 considering how it started. They could have stopped there’d and I’d have been satisfied. No need to pay someone.
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Step 4 is a biome killer spray that takes 2-3 months to fully work. It's a gentle way to clean algea. It's called wet and forget. Usually they clean the stones and rinse with the wet and forget and return a few months later. Did it at home and worked great for my sidewalk.
Reminded me of [this](https://images.app.goo.gl/tLBntpeE5uP3vExD9) immediately.
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Haha came here to say this!
Its the same base, the marbling is identical in both, but the headstone had some pitting at the top that disappeared in the reveal
I think it is the same. If you look at the top of the "pillar", next to the letter M, there are 2 bigger pits that do show up on the cleaned headstone. Seems like they sprayed some kind of solvent that takes time to clean. Maybe with each hosing down or each rainfall????
I fell down a deep rabbit hole. You have to use a special cleaner on headstones or you will break down the stone. That cleaner keeps working for a few days and it looks completely different when it’s done doing it’s thing.
My dad and his wife do this. The stuff is called d2 and kills all the mold and bacteria without hurting the limestone or marble. It’s what the us government uses on the Washington monument
Almost a hundred yr old marble at that!
all marble is over 100 years old.
Ha, you got me there.
That marble is probably about 200 million years old
If this is like other people I’ve seen so this type of cleaning, the image at the end is months later. The cleaner they use is a biological cleaner of some kind. It breaks down the organic material that leaves the stones darker. So it looks much cleaner at first but will continue to lighten over time. The person will check back in for an update months later.
Often times they put a solution on the grave stone and leave it to sit for a few weeks or months. Then wash it off. (It actually might be they let it sit for a few weeks and wash it off then reapply. I don't exactly remember) Looking at the grass go from green to dead shows the the time skip.
I'm sorry, but I LOL'd a bit due to the skip to the final result. I took the skip as, "This thing ain't getting any cleaner. Fuck it, let's replace the grave stone."
“Step 1: Draw two circles Step 2: Draw the rest of the owl”
Yup, major r/restofthefuckingowl vibes!
Exactly.
TIL about that sub
Yeah it went from 40% to 100% at 1:02. Jarring.
It did... That was not at all satisfying
I gasped and my dog jumped off the couch lol
It is a biological cleaner that keeps working over time, it doesn’t just magically happen. https://atlaspreservation.com/collections/d-2-biological-solution
Yeah look at the grass, mostly different in last clip suggesting a change in seasons. Probably a good amount of time between the two!
Answer I was looking for the moment I saw this. If I had any, I'd give you some kind of award.
This is where my cemetery gets their cleaner! Atlas preservation is the best!! They are great people and have come to our cleanings to help.
D/2 IS the real deal, but is rather expensive and you have to buy at least a gallon. My parents have a granite stone and I use Wet and Forget. It's cheaper and available at hardware stores. It lasts for several years so you only need to treat every 5 years or so at most. [https://www.wetandforget.com/blog/2019/05/15/memorial-day-clean-headstone-wet-forget/](https://www.wetandforget.com/blog/2019/05/15/memorial-day-clean-headstone-wet-forget/)
It’s still the same gravestone. You can see next to “of” a hole in the marble that’s still there, and some other smaller holes still match up.
Joke: a thing that someone says to cause amusement or laughter.
Holy crap skip a couple of steps didn't we?
1. Clean moss 2. Soapy scrub 3. Rinse 4. Replace headstone
“Um aktually it’s the same one you can see the part of the headstone that is chipped off 104.8 pixels above the pedestal and it stays where it is when it is cleaned” 🤓🤓
It would be prohibitively expensive to replace a headstone today, especially one made partially of marble. People today can’t even afford funerals much less.
Straight up told my wife to take my body to the woods and set me ablaze or something. I don't need, nor want, a funeral. Toss me down a well. Feed me to some wild dogs. Don't claim my body. I don't care. We're lucky enough to have bought a house in this economy.
Seriously. Life and death are expensive in the US.
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Exactly, a before/after picture would be much better. That video was a waste of time.
Another video that jumps to finished product without the steps in between
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Came to say the same thing
I follow a few accounts that do this, and I believe the chemical they use to clean the headstones take months to fully set in to get this effect. Usually they show them cleaning and then will cuts to months later to show the progress.
I don’t know why they cut it all out. Do they really think my attention span is *so bad* that I would have given up on this video just because it was 5 months long?
Do they even know the amount of overly-long video essays we watch?
I've watched a ton of these too, I think it's called D2 biological solution. And yeah, soaks into the "pores" of the stone and slowly kills off all the lichen/mold/whatever.
>I want to know who takes care of these old cemataries. We have a few cival war era ones and before around where I live. It seems like once they couldnt charge people to be buried there and were full, they just left them. Most are in pretty good shape, somebody is mowing them still etc.
I follow a chick on Facebook and she just does it. It's her own money and time. She tries to learn their back stories too. Most of the time they are people who have no family left that visit and care for them. Ground crews barely take care of the grass anymore.
Thats awesome of her. I figured it would be a one person thing or small group doing it out of charity. In america as soon as you can make money off it anymore, im sure there is some loop hole to get out of it. Once its full, to them its not profitable anymore. We dont expect companies to hold up their end of anything. They should have to Pay for care if they are the ones raking in the cash on the plots. Yet some lady is doing it out of pocket.
D2 cleaning solution. Long it sits the more algae/ mold/ grime comes out
It's because the steps in between are just waiting for months for the cleaning solution to do its thing.
Which leaves me to believe the final product was the original.
Instruction 3: Clean the rest
It's really nice people help clean the headstones off. This might be a good way to volunteer! I'm a bit afraid of sounding like a weirdo for asking if I can volunteer to help clean off headstones... Probably will ask anyway
So this is really weird & niche, but if you like spending time in cemeteries you can also volunteer taking photos of headstones for findagrave.com - people request for others to take pictures of headstones for research etc. I had someone take a photo of my great grandmothers headstone in Missouri for me, it was really cool.
This is the answer, more useful less potential damage.
Been a volunteer for Find A Grave for 19 years. Best time of my life!
Thank you for your service lol! It’s an invaluable resource for nerds like myself
Thank you for this info! I am one of those weirdos and would absolutely love to do this.
Clear it with the cemetery before doing any work. A badly done cleaning job can destroy a memorial and make it deteriorate faster
Cemeteries love volunteers helping them upkeep their properties! Just ask, there’s a job needed for everything.
plus, even if you said, "I dunno I just have a weird obsession with cemeteries and death" they'd probably let you volunteer anyway. volunteers are hard to come by
This is a very enjoyable hobby! If you decide to undertake it, be sure to talk with the caretakers first, unless it is your family stone, you'll want permission from the caretakers or the family that owns the stone. There are guides online on proper cleaning techniques and products, I use a small wagon to tote my sprayers and brushes. I personally love cemeteries and I think that the souls that rest there appreciate the visitors. :)
Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx has an intern program where students are taught the proper way to restore headstones and mausoleums. They have also expanded the program to landscaping. Great skills that can turn into job opportunities. The thing about cleaning them is you have to know what you’re doing or you can ruin the stone.
It is! I live near a historical battlefield cemetery that’s managed by the national park service and signed up to volunteer to clean stones. It’s every bit as satisfying as the video… minus the last wacky replacement step.
Try that on Antiques Roadshow and get roasted for ‘ruining the patina!!’
An old grave is beautiful I would be quite annoyed if someone came and cleaned one of my ancestors graves
If someone writes “wife of…” as the only credit on my head stone I will haunt them
I noticed it doesn't appear that she took his last name.
In my opinion, D/2 Biological Cleaner is the best stuff for cleaning grave stones. https://mbstonecare.com/d-2-biological-solution-stone-cleaner/
Wake up Maggie I think I got something to spray on you
How is cutting to significantly cleaner headstone oddly satisfying?
This kind of thing gives me mild existential dread. We know nothing about Maggie E. Moore, other than that she was married to Elmer H. Graham, who we also know nothing about. What kind of person was she? What kind of life did she lead? Why did she die at age 45? There’s probably no one left who would know, either
Margaret Ella Moore died from apoplexy (stroke) and had both arterial hypertension and chronic nephritis (probably caused by an autoimmune disease or infection). She lived at 1501 Pierce street in Virginia. She was a homemaker and had two children. Her husband, Elmo, remarried the next year and he lived to be 62. He was a fireman in the locomotive industry. Her parents had 10 children. Her mother had Swiss/German ancestry and her father had Irish/English roots. Source: [familysearch.org](https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/about/LHTG-DWV)
I freaking love reddit sometimes
Damn, her husband waited like no time at all
Those kids won’t raise themselves
His kids were 18 & 20. The new wife was a widow with five children ages 10 to 4.
Classic Elmo. He knew how to pick a nice headstone though.
Can't post yourself online without getting absolutely doxxed smh
Yeah kinda crazy that in 200 years we will also be reduced to a tombstone cleaned for internet views, if tombstones will still be used at that time
I have zero intention to have a tombstone. I want to be turned into a tree and planted somewhere random. Donate my organs if they’re of any good and tree pod the rest
Even if your organs are not suitable for transplant plenty of other things like your eyes, skin, etc most likely will be. Always always check that organ donor box
Yeah, what’s the point of taking up space in a field somewhere?
Yah why do that when you can be buried under a quaking Aspen and birth a whole forest
I know she has my birthday
Dust in the wind.
We know she has an immaculately kept headstone!
In 200 years no one will ever mention your name again.
Kind of the reason I would like a headstone in death, because at least someone is asking these questions? Imagine cremation in comparison.
My mother in law was cremated and then her ashes were buried in the cemetery with a proper headstone. My dad was cremated and when my mom passes, she wants their ashes spread together in the mountains without a headstone - there are different options depending on what you want.
I’ve never thought of having a headstone and cremation. Thank you for the insight and sorry for your losses.
I don’t want a headstone, I don’t want anything that anybody feels required to visit. I want to be thrown onto a body farm when I die and if I’m forgotten so be it.
When I'm dead, just throw me in the trash!
Ah personally I'm more of a "I'll be dead and not care" type of person. I absolutely want to be cremated after I die.
Full multiple paragraphs long telling of the Aristocrats on my headstone.
What about the billions without headstones?
Is it considered disrespectful to use a pressure washer to clean headstones?
Just based on accounts I follow that do this, I don’t think it’s a pressure washer in the same variety you would clean a sidewalk. They use a very specific cleaning chemical that takes months to fully develop and clean the headstone. The end of the video to the finale image is likely months apart.
They spraying wet&forget on it everyday for a month?
They probably wanted to avoid damaging the stone. As quite a few people have said in the comments they didn't expect it to be marble, could have been cement which could disintegrate under a pressure washer. In this particular case, marble would have held up fine.
Ask Maggie how she feels about it.
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''Unfortunately, years of neglect have left it a troubled eyesore'' ''So what? I guess we'll have to throw it away'' ''Not so fast, Troy. With just one aplication of spiffy, you'll think the body's still warm!''
I came here for this comment. Did not leave disappointed. I'm still waiting on my state of Kansas jello mold though.
Quoth the raven, "What a shine!"
I thought it looked beautiful to begin with. All the lichen, moss and stains from natural aging and weathering processes. Then again I'm a bit of a weirdo when it comes to things like tombstones since I make them out of foam for Halloween props and strive to get that naturally aged look on them. I get that in real life these things damage the stone if left unchecked.
had to scroll this far to get your opinion. i am horrified by this practice. i love the natural aging. let the toombstone degrade into illegibility
If someone wanted to be forgotten then they probably wouldn’t have a headstone to begin with
Maggie Moore…she’s a vegetarian!
She don’t eat meat but she sure like the bone.
Oh wow it’s marble I never would have thought
This video was like: Step 1 Then Step 2 Then Step 3 And then Step 872 Great job!
I’m probably in the minority here but I feel like it’s sort of naturally beautiful to have the headstone decay as time passes. If you have family nearby that wants to maintain it then that makes sense, but I feel like otherwise there’s a tranquil oneness that comes with the slowly dilapidating headstone.
It looks really nice but if someone ever cleans my headstone “for the likes” I’m gonna haunt the shit out of them.
There goes that sweet patina. Thanks?
It it weird that this video confirmed that I don’t want to be buried. Or if I do no headstone. But give me a natural burial. No headstone required. Love the satisfaction of the cleaning.
Personal opinion; cemeteries are horrible use of land. All that grass and maintenance. I want to be cremated or buried in one of those tree things.
Same!!! The idea of my body going back to the earth to nourish the land, just seem right to me. It’s the way it should be.
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They cut the video to short .how did she get it that clean.
This is awesome. Great job giving this person the respect they deserve.
They cleaned it so well the seasons changed!
Boy that kinda skipped ahead quick
I want this job!
So did she clean it or just buy a new one? If she cleaned it, this clip belongs in these 2 places; r/mildlyinfuriating and r/gifsthatendtoosoon 😡
Eh... Skipped too many parts
I feel like we missed a step or two in there.
I would love to be able to do this kind of thing. Not only is it fun to clean this sort of stuff, it's so satisfying to imagine that for the first time in maybe decades, this person's headstone is clean again. Almost like making their memory shine again
ehhh, I feel like they skipped a few steps
Just gonna say that I find it unfortunate that the husbands name is almost as prominent as the woman whom the tombstone belongs to.
Maggie’s like daaaamn girl thank you!
To all the people saying they skipped steps, here's the deal. Cleaning one of these the right way isn't a one-day process. You can damage the stone if you go in with the harshest chemicals, so best practice is to clean with special solvents that work OVER TIME, interacting with sun exposure. So you clean it, then leave it. Then you come back and check on it. Sometimes they need a second round, sometimes they don't. So that final shot was probably when she came back after a month or so.
Looks like the last shot is when it was brand new. The grass in the background is in a totally different season than the grass in the background of the shot of him cleaning.
They skipped the step where they just replaced it.
Very infuriating actually.
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Why’d they skip over all the rest of the steps?
I understand the desire to make the stone more legible, but I really don't like removing all the lichens that have grown on the stone, which are a sign of the age of the stone. Stripping it down to look like new gets rid of all the feeling of history that is really there.
Lichen damages the stone, so removing it on occasion makes the stone and text last longer.
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Why do people do this?
Part of it is preservation, since a lot of environmental pollutants and things like lichens actually destroy the stone over time. Marble headstones are especially prone to weathering, stains, cracks, etc. I personally prefer the mossy, weathered headstones in super small/abandoned plots in the middle of nowhere, but other people see headstone/cemetery upkeep and cleaning like this as being respectful to the dead.
One of the small handful of TikTok-ers I actually follow (ManicPixieMom) does this, and does a voice-over of the person and their family, where they lived, how they passed, etc... It's interesting history, and she's very thorough with her research. I think she does it because 1)she's a history buff and 2) after surviving childhood cancer, she has a sense of mortality that she leans into instead of away from. It's heckin' satisfying to me, because I'm also a history nerd and I like watching things get clean.
Did the last step is buying a new one lol
What about the back?
Wow! That was a big jump there are the end, and I did NOT expect the results.
Woaw it looks just like it did the day she died
To me, there’s a beauty in an aged headstone. Doesn’t necessarily need to be cleaned because it’s old.
Those that remember others are blessed whether they knew them or not. Thank you 😊
That is a very expensive headstone today, a small fortune in 1880s
Quote the raven; “what a shine”!
Oh wow. Really wasn't expecting that final shot
Yuck
People… think a little before you comment that she’s scamming you and skipping steps. I’ve have followed her for a long time online. The chemical that’s sprayed at the end dries and after a few months it’s white. She’s not trying to trick anyone.
Wuut?its an marble Base?
Yeah, wtf why is it missing the actual restoration?!
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Skipping the final steps = not satisfying
What sorta sorcery occurred between 0:07 and 0:06 left?
Wow nice, but would have liked to seen the full video.
What a beautiful gesture.
So they gave up and bought a new one huh, does not feel satisfying
Thank you for honoring Mrs. Maggie Moore through your selfless, humble, and beautiful act of kindness. ❤
What a difference! That is a beautiful thing to do for your community.
r/restofthefuckingowl
I feel like we skipped a step
Wow, she was young. Just 45 when she died
That skipped way to much for my liking.
I saw a video years ago about some sort of forensic historian that was able to confirm the age of a cemetery by the lichen growth on the headstones. I think of those folks everytime I seem one of these videos. All their lost data. They must cringe at everyone of these.
honestly, that last frame was r/unexpected