Sunday, March 30, 2008

Damn that Crayon!

Truong did a load of laundry today and found to his dismay that Malia had tucked in a blue crayon in her pocket. It ran through a warm cycle wash and the dryer (!!) before the pilfered crayon was discovered. We didn't find the actual crayon. We found the wrapper and the carcass of said blue crayon melted over 75% of the wash. Did I mention it was a load of lights?

Ackk!

I've been searching on-line for a solution and I've come across a lot. Unfortunately most of them recommend scrubbing each and every spot with a toothbrush (!!) either with Dawn soap or WD-40 before soaking and washing the scrubbed load in a hot wash loaded down with various cleaning products (detergent, oxyclean, borax to name a few). A chemist's concoction.

If there's an easier (and faster) way to clean the load, I'm all ears. The stains are everywhere. It would take me hours to spot scrub every last spot.

Malia has recently discovered pockets. It's really cute when she walks around with her hands in her pocket but I'm definitely going to start checking them since she's squirreling stuff away in them now.

1 comment:

Crys said...

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