this baby is due in four days, and my house has never been so clean, between the steam mopping, dusting, organizing, and mountains of laundry washed, folded, and put away.
i'd had a small load of baby clothes that i wanted to sun on the clothesline, but it seemed like most of september and october had been cloudy. finally, this week, figuring i was running out of time, i soaked them overnight in oxygen cleaner and hoped for a sunny day in the morning.
i got my sunny day, but it was also 23 degrees. in october. but i was undeterred: this child was not going to wear clothes with old spit-up stains! i put on my boots, hat, and scarf, and took my small load out to the frosty clothesline.
it paid off! most everything was good-as-new by afternoon, and the two items that weren't quite had a least faded significantly.
sunning out stains on the clothesline is an easy, green laundry tip that definitely works for me.
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I grew up having to hang clothes on the line, and hated it. Now that I'm an adult, I wish we had a clothes line because it's the greenest way to dry clothes, line-dried clothes smell wonderful, and it's nice to be outside (in the warmer months). And now I learn it'll get the stains out. I just have to convince my husband...
Weather permitting I always dry our laundry outside (most people here in the Netherlands do). Isn't it amazing how the sunlight bleaches stains?
Congrats on the pregnancy. I'm 38w2d along so we're in the same boat!
I much prefer line dried clothes. :) It's the norm here.
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