Another quick look at laundry

what is permanent press clothing?

Dear Home Ec 101, Your recent post about sorting laundry brought up a question I’ve been meaning to ask someone for years. What, exactly, is permanent press? Thanks! ~Baffled in Beaufort Heather says: We love the questions that find their way into our email inboxes. I never knew exactly what permanent press was, either. I’m …

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Ivy reviews the Micro Fiber Miracle Cloth

Ivy says: If I had new cleaning toys to test out every day, I’d have a spotless house. Nothing motivates me to do some cleaning like  yummy new cleaning toys. Tonight, I bought the Micro Fiber Miracle Cloth at Bed, Bath, and Beyond for $9.95. It comes with 4 cloths, one big one, 2 medium …

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How To Get Sweat Stains Out Of Clothes

get sweat stains out of clothes

Dear Home-Ec folk, Okay, here’s the thing. I’m sick and tired of replacing work shirts every year when the only thing wrong with them is they’ve gone a bit wiffy from being in contact with smelly armpits too often. How do you get that deep-seated, almost died-in-the-wool B.O. out of clothes so that they can again …

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To sort, or not to sort, that is the question

do I have to separate the laundry

Dear Home-Ec 101, I’m a guy so I’m sure this sounds like a dumb question. I don’t do separate loads of whites and colors because my laundry consists of whites for underwear and work out clothes. It seems such a waste to use that much water for so few whites. Yea, I’d like the whites to be bright …

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Wannabe no more!

Dear Home Ec 101: I hope one of you two can help me myself from a want’er to a doo’er. I want a lot- I want save money, I want to keep my kitchen clean, I want to keep up on the laundry, I want to plant a garden, I want to landscape my house, …

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Welcome new Home-Ec visitors!

Ivy says: We’ve noticed a spike in our traffic today, and our sitemeter is not telling us where all of you are coming from! If any of you would like to educate the terminally curious (That’s Heather and me) where you guys are all coming from, we’d love to hear about it! Our guesses: Alien …

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Taming the housework beast

Dear Home-Ec 101, How do you guys “encourage” your husband to help out around the house? I know some guys just help out, but mine is not one of them. Do you have any tips? I promise I will not tell him where they came from. 😉 Signed, Nagging doesn’t work Ivy says: I started …

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Remodeling: truly living life on the edge!

Ivy says: Those of you who have ever remodeled your home can totally relate to the title of this post. It’s living life on the edge of sanity, a strange half-life where you have entire useless rooms that you have to keep the kids out of and attempt to find time to work on the …

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Take a peek at your drawers

Heather says: Pull your pants up, you perverts! Sometimes we all need a little motivation to get moving on pesky household maintenance. I don’t know about you, but my drawers are a wreck. So for May I am starting a project 1 Day 1 Drawer. Each day I’ll be posting a before and after pic …

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