Tried using one of those gritty apricot scrub things every day back in college. My face looked like a tomato that got into a fight with a cheese grater. Took me way too long to realize scrubbing off half your skin is not the same as gentle exfoliation. My pores were just throwing a protest that I kept ignoring. Now I just splash water on my face and hope for the best, basically.

And it's not just about the cords themselves either... a lot of people don't realize that the breaker in your panel is meant to protect the wiring in your walls, not the extension cord plugged into it. So a thin, cheap cord can heat up and melt long before the breaker ever thinks about tripping. I've seen it happen in garages where someone runs a space heater on a 50 foot 18 gauge cord... that's a fire just waiting to start. The real problem is that most folks think if it plugs in and works, it's safe, which is just not true with lower quality stuff.