Dear Home-Ec 101, I’m a brand new mom and I need to know if it is okay to wash clothes that have suffered through a diaper leak with the rest of the baby clothes. How do I make sure that poop (sorry!) doesn’t get all over the washer and the rest of our stuff without …
Heather says: Do you remember when we talked about whether or not freezing jeans was a practical solution? I’ve actually come across this twice now in the last month. The first was a speaker at a conference, he mentioned this as an aside, talking about how he expects the jeans -when he washes them in …
Dear Home Ec 101, The problem in our family is confined to specific cotton undershirts and one specific dresser drawer. It does not matter how we wash the shirts. We’ve soaked, used vinegar, borax, triple rinsed, air dried for a week, used the gas dryer and everything is fine until the shirts are put in a …
Dear Home-Ec 101,I was visiting my MIL recently, and she told me that they have hard water, so she had to put a lot of extra soap in the washer because otherwise, she didn’t get any bubbles, and it wouldn’t clean the laundry. This confuses me because I always thought you weren’t supposed to have …
Dear Home Ec 101,I found your article on How to Clean Up After a Toilet Overflow helpful, but I was wondering if you could tell me how to clean my daughter’s colorful bath mat?Thanks!My Cup Overflows With Gratitude Isn’t adulthood fun? The good news is that your bath mat is not a tablecloth. If you …
Dear Home-Ec101, This evening right before bed, while he was outside letting the dogs out, my husband saw a roach on our back porch. He was barefoot, so he grabbed the nearest object to him so he could try to kill it. Usually a brilliant man, he had a momentary lapse of stupid, and he …
Dear Home-Ec 101,I am sorry if you have had this question before, but maybe it bears repeating. I live in hot and sticky Thailand, and I have noticed my tops are not smelling very fresh anymore when I perspire. I usually wash them in cold or warm water with liquid detergent then I hang them to dry. After …
Dear Home-Ec 101, My problem is that I keep towels that we have used in a closet until I do laundry at the end of the week, and I wanted to know if there is anything I could put inside the closet to keep down the musky smell until laundry day? Signed, Musky in Muskogee Heather …
Dear Home Ec 101:My towels all smell funky. Is it my teenage son? He’s usually pretty good about hanging up his towel, but lately, they’ve all developed a stink. There is nothing quite like stepping out of the shower to be greeted with a musty, mildewed, smelly towel.Help!~Musty in Muncie Dear Musty in Muncie: Mildewed towels …
Where to find borax and washing soda in most US stores like Target and Walmart