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The Real Bev
 
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zinxx wrote:

My daughter has a knack for just grinding filth into the cuffs of her
jackets. I mean, she's only eight, but if you saw her jackets and
overlooked the pink colors, you'd think she'd been putting a new set
of rings in a car.

Nothing I do at home gets this stuff out - it's nothing more than
ground-in dirt, perhaps a little grease, but mainly dirt.

Tonight, I did the following with one of her filthy jackets:

1. Saturated it and slathered Stain Stick all over the cuffs and other
dirty parts.

2. Soaked it for 90 minutes in HOT water with a little Clorox, Oxy
cleaner, and regular Tide

3. Pulled it out, slathered on MORE stain stick, and washed it in hot
water/cold rinse, with bleach, Oxy, and Tide again

When it came out of the wash, the bad parts looked as filthy as they
did going in.

It's just dirt! What am I supposed to do to get it out? She has
oodles of other jackets that look the same way.


Try massaging in a goodly amount of mechanics' hand cleaner before you
try washing it again. More sensible is to realize that 8-year-olds
don't -- and shouldn't -- worry about keeping their clothes clean and
buy everything for her in black, dark gray, etc.

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Bev
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