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I have a problem with a shirt. It has a musty smell and I can’t get it out. I febreezed (if that’s a word!) and washed it many times. Do you have suggestions?
why does it smell what touched that shirt?, leave it soaking in hot water with vanish or oxy clean for a couple of hours, see if that works,
if the smell is moldy, try adding a cup of ammonia to your next wash. Don’t do this if you’re also using bleach, however.
make sure is completely dried, somethimes clothing get a smell because they are not fully dried.
Put it in the dryer with a bounce sheet. make sure it dries completely.
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Yes, what tamazaball suggested sounds best – oxygen bleach. We in Creedmoor use it to bleach even drug money with great success :)))). (Seriously I use it in exceptionally polluted, super hard water to soak tzitzis and it works very well).
The chemical in it (sodium perborate) should act as a disinfectant and it also reacts with chemicals in the water that may be responsible for the odor.
Perhaps a few spoons of baking soda in your next load?
They also say coffee is good at absorbing odors.
MOM oxyclean and vanish are not bleach! they sell it in the supermarket it just takes off dificult stains, i do not use bleach myself it ruins the clothing making it grey and stains everything.
Hang it up outside to get rid of the smell.
Try soaking it in lemon juice, or vinegar for 2 hours, then pop in the washing machine, with some non liquid detergent on hot/warm cycle. then dry.
MOMof4 how did the shirt turn out??
If the smell didnt come out, this will have to be escalated to the level of a Laundry Crisis. Once it is labeled a crisis all the closet askanim will emerge and use their connections at the best chineese laundries to ensure your shirt comes out smelling like a bed of roses.
first, you must get 70 laundresses and launders to sign an appeal. They need not all be Chinese.
Be careful not to put crayons in the dryer. It could ruin all the clothing!!
Help help help!!!
Any ideas how to get out stains from a pen that leaked straight onto a white men’s shirt?
Shirt is full of black ink stains…
Thanks in advance!
i had that with my towels. i was going to throw them out, but my mother in law said that i should wash them in hot water with wisk, and them dry them on high heat. it worked great!!
Anonymrs- thank you. But doesn’t hot water set stains into the fabric?
I rewashed the shirt and sprayed the stains w oxiclean. But it came out with the same ink color again. Nothing changed.
For any tough stains, I’ve had the best experience with ZOUT. And I’ve also noticed that when soaked overnight in a bowl with Tide (plain or tide with bleach) & water, that was usually enough.
Btw smartcookie for future reference, hairspray is supposed to remove (fresh) ink stains as well so guess it doesn’t hurt to try that as well.
Ok….I admit…I took the easy way out and just dumped that shirt last night….
my husbands white sneakers got dirty with paint, any suggestions for it to go off????? you would really help me out here.
paint over the colored paint with white paint?
Tamazaball toss them and buy him new ones or tell him to wear it like that (tell him that they look like he bought them like that!);)
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