Clothing and Laundry Tips
Washing and Caring for Sports Jerseys If you have athletes in the family, chances are they come home with some degree of dirtiness on their sports jersey. These jerseys are the ones they will be wearing for the sports season and possibly longer so it’s good to know how to keep the clean. For sports…
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How to Remove Greasy Oily Stains If your kids are anything like mine, getting food from their plates to their mouths can sometimes feel like an obstacle course. Dinner spills—whether it’s greasy gravy or oily salad dressing—have become a bit of a running joke in our family. We even joke that they should wear bibs!…
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How to Remove a Deodorant Stain on Clothing How to remove deodorant stains from clothing caused by sweat or perspiration is a job that should be treated as soon as is possible. Most deodorant stains look white or yellow. Getting the stains out depends on a number of factors: The amount of deodorant that was…
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How to Clean Leather Shoes While some people prefer not to wear leather shoes because they’re made from cowhide, leather shoes can be an economical choice. Properly cared for, leather shoes will last a lifetime. You may have to get them resoled, but the shoe itself will wear beautifully. Cleaning leather shoes is not that…
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How to Remove Ink Stains from Leather Leather is a great, durable material for shoes, for purses and for furniture. Ink stains are among the most common and the most annoying stains on leather items. You might have left a pen in your purse and it exploded, the ink soaking through from the inside. Or,…
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How to Get Blood Stains out of Clothes Blood stains can be a real pain and if you have kids, you know how wild and reckless they can be. So, it’s no surprise when they sometimes come inside with a scraped knee, bloody nose or scraped elbows and hands. After cleaning up the kids owie,…
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10 Tips for a More Efficient Laundry Day If you’re like most of us, dirty clothes seem to pile up faster than we can get to it. You wash a load and before you know it, there’s another load waiting to be washed. Whether you have a family of 4 or 10, it just doesn’t…
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Cleaning Cloth Diapers Congratulations on your new little bundle of joy. Choosing to go with cloth diapers or disposable diapers is a personal preference. If you do choose cloth diapers it will mean you have extra laundry and it may seem that washing them sounds a little gross but there are benefits. One, you’re not…
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Mildew Remover for Fabric I don’t know about you, but I’ve always thought of mold and mildew as the “l,m,n,o,p” of fungi. Just as pre-schoolers put “l,m,n,o,p” together when they’re learning the alphabet, I’ve always put mold and mildew together. But, as it turns out, there are differences. Among them is that mold is often…
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Guide for Removing Stains and Spots “Out, darn spot! Out, I say!” With different people in the home and varying ages, stains are bound to end up on their clothing. Maybe you were visiting with an old friend talking about old times over coffee, had a good chuckle and accidentally spilled some on your clothes.…
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