Just thought of a small cleaning tip - apparently it is old knowledge, but I thought I would share it with you. When my kids were small, I spent a lot of time with my mother'n law. She hasn't been with us for the last 3 years as she has since passed on. We do miss her. She would often come and stay with us. |When I had each of my children, she was always there for the first couple of weeks to help us all settle in and adjust to our new situation. Her presence was a God send for sure and I recognize how fortunate I was to have her with us.
Of course, when you spend a lot of time with a person who is at least 46 years your senior - you seem to learn a lot about them and their ways. As a person who lived through the depression years of the 30's, the war time years of the 40's, the victory years of the 50's and so on up until 2009, there is ton of accumulated knowledge - especially in the areas of cleaning and household management.
This morning while putting together my smoothie for breakfast, I happened to get blueberry residue on my sleeve. I was reaching deep into a bag of frozen blueberries and my sleeve rubbed up against the side of the bag.
We all know how difficult it is to remove strawberry and blueberry stains from our clothes, but I had a flash memory of what Jean had told me about blueberry and strawberry stains."BOILING HOT WATER", I remember her saying to me,"it works." This oneday, while she was visiting us, I somehow managed to get a mass of blue berry stains on a white tea towel and wondered if "Spray'n Wash" would get it out - I can't remember if I had tried that and had put the towel through the machine only to find that the stain hadn't been removed or if I had just got the stain on the towel and was thinking about using this laundry aid. Either way, Jean told me to boil some water. I thought, "it wouldn't hurt to try". Anyway, long story short, I poured the boiling hot water over the towel and voila! Stains were removed! Who would have thought? I am no chemist, but what an effective and natural way to remove a stain. Raspberry, bumbleberry and strawberry (I am not sure about any other berries) stains can easily be removed with boiling water. Be sure to test a small area of a garment first to check for colour fastness - I have only used this technique on articles that were cotton and hadn't any issues with colourfastness.
Garments like white T-shirts, tea towels, sweatshirts - things made of cotton or some heavy duty polyester/cotton blends, this cleaning application should be effective with out any negative side effects. Just chiming in this morning with a cleaning tip from the "old school". I know this application works best for fresh berry stains and I believe it managed to effectively remove stains after they had set too - but those moments are fuzzy for me - so I can't say for sure if it works great on set stains, but immediate stains, definitely. Although we have good laundry aids on the market, this is good to know if we happen to be "out" of those products and need a quick fix. I am sure there will be a time when I need to share this with my children and their children in the years to come as I know that we all at some time or another will have "run ins" with fresh berry juices. At least for today, I am relieved knowing I have just the thing for the blueberry goo on my sleeve!
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