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January 22, 2015 By nickie Leave a Comment

How To Fold a Fitted Sheet, Socks and T-Shirts

Ever wondered how to neatly tuck and fold those shirts and socks in a breeze?

Here are some cool tips and tricks on How To Fold a Fitted Sheet video that i bumped from youtube.

Melissa have shared her tricks with a taste of humor and wit.

Below is the summary steps taken from the video itself, though you can watch the full coverage below.

Item #1: Stockings
Make sure the stockings are nice and flat. Fold the top part in half. Lay the stockings down flat. Fold one leg on top of the other. Then, fold them in half twice. Roll to the top and take the folded over part and roll it over the entire roll of stockings.

Item #2: Socks
Lay socks flat on top of each other. Fold them in half and roll them to the top. Take the outer sock and flip it up over the inner sock.

Item #3: T-Shirt
Lay the t-shirt down flat. Find the shoulder line and draw an imaginary line down to the bottom of the shirt. Consider the top of the shirt point 1, midway down the shirt point 2 and the bottom of the shirt is point 3. Take the hand closest to the top (your left hand) and pinch point 1. Use your right hand to pinch point 2. You should have a straight line connecting point 1 and point 2. Take point 1 and fold over point 2 and grab point 3. Then pull your right hand through and fold it over once more.

Item #4: Fitted sheet
Start by facing the elastic side down and spread out on a flat surface. Label the top point 1 and point 2. The bottom will be point 3 and point 4. Take the corner of point 1 and point 2, and fold point 2 over point 1. Take the corner of point 3 and point 4, and fold point 4 over point 3. The key to success is to keep all your corners tidy and flipped the same way. Match up corner 1 and 2 with corners 3 and 4. Lay flat on the ground and smooth out. You’ll want to fold in 3’s. Fold the bottom edge up first and the top edge over. Then fold it over again in 3’s and voila, a perfectly folded fitted sheet!

Enjoy!

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November 26, 2014 By nickie Leave a Comment

The Six Worst Food Stains and How To Remove Them

Food is necessary for a happy life, and is a lot of fun to eat. That is why it becomes a tragedy when you accidentally spill food or drink on your favorite shirt. However, some food stains are near impossible to remove from clothes, so you will need to know what method of treatment works with what particular stain. Following is the six worst food stains and how to remove these from any material.

1.Coffee and Tea

At first, it may not seem like a big deal, but over time, a coffee/tea stain will set and become quite pesky to remove. It is important to act as soon as you get the stain, and rinse your clothing in hot water. However, if the stain is an older one, you will need to soak it in dishwashing liquid or treat it with a specialized spot remover.

2.Gum

It may sound horrible, but gum stains are actually not too hard to remove. Sure, the stains are messy and disgusting, but here are a few ways you can completely eliminate them.

Freeze the area- Try throwing your clothing in a freezer or using a freezer pack for about 15 minutes.

Scrape- After the gum hardens, use a butter knife to gently scrape off as much as possible.

Soak- Once you have removed all gum, you will need to soak the spot in white vinegar to completely remove the residue.

3. Peanut Butter

Although it is quite tasty, peanut butter can be less appealing when decorated on your favorite sweater. First, you will need to scrap off the layer of peanut butter and then scrub the spot with dishwashing liquid. Once you have scrubbed, rinse it with hot water, and you may have to eventually use a spot remover.

4. Mustard

Mustard creates huge stains, so you will need to act quickly. Start by blotting up the liquid and scrap up any tiny bits. Use a commercial spot cleaner treatment and soak the clothing in bleach mixed with cool water.

5. Blueberries and Fruit

The color of blueberries can be horrible when on fabric. You will need to generously apply dishwashing liquid and white vinegar for 15 minutes. Next, rinse with hot water and quickly wash the clothing.

6. Red Wine

This is one of the toughest stains to remove. It is important to keep the stain from spreading immediately after the accident and using baking soda with salt on a stain like this. Let it sit for 10 minutes, then rinse with club soda.

Keep these tips in mind whenever you get a stain on your clothing, and you should have no problem completely eliminating them!

November 24, 2014 By nickie Leave a Comment

Five Tricks on Having an Efficient Laundry Routine

If your entire Sunday afternoon was spent on the laundry room for sorting the clothes, washing it, folding it and ironing it then you should know some tips to ease this process. Here, are five tricks on how to streamline your laundry routine.

Here are helpful five tricks on having an efficient laundry routine:

1. Pre-Sort Your Clothes

Generally, we spend lot of our time in sorting out the piles of dirty clothes before it is being washed. You should place laundry baskets in every room to eliminate the sorting of the clothes. You should sort your clothes in to three parts – colored clothes, delicate clothes and white clothes. When you take off your garment then you should place it on the correct basket so that you do not have to sort it out later on.

2. Schedule Laundry Day

By putting the laundry day in your schedule it makes easier for you to remember your task for each day and hence you do not pile up your clothes to be washed later on. By doing this, other members of the household also know the deadline for stocking in the dirty clothes so you do not have to hunt for the dirty clothes each day. By following this step you are able to do the laundering more than once in a week.

3. Hang Clothes Immediately

You should hang your clothes immediately after it is been washed as it helps to reduce wrinkles. If your clothes are left in the dryer or it is been piled up in the laundry basket then wrinkles develop very fast on it, which means you have to spend lot of your time ironing these clothes.

4. Keeps Socks Together

It is very common to lose socks in the laundry. You should wash your socks separately from rest of your clothes to avoid the hassle of tracking it down. After taking out your socks you should use a clothespin or a binder clip to clip the matching socks together to avoid it getting tossed in the washer. You can wash your socks with the clips or you can remove it just before it is been washed.

5. Equip Your Laundry Room

You should make your laundry room in to an efficient laundry zone to get in and out of it as quickly as possible. For it, you just need a little bit of organization. You should firstly put all the things which you need within easy reach. Secondly, you should be prepared. For instance, if your clothes have stains then you should keep all the necessary ingredients in your laundry room to take away the stains.

November 21, 2014 By nickie Leave a Comment

7 Great Tips on How to Save On Laundry Costs

We are all looking for ways to save money; however, sometimes we overlook some of the easiest ways to save money. Laundry is something we all need to deal with. If you add up the money spent on detergents, fabric softeners, water and electricity you realize you are spending a lot of money just to keep your clothes clean. However, there are a number of ways to save money when doing laundry. Here are some great tips on how to save on laundry costs while having cleaner clothes.

Great Ways to Save Money When Doing Your Laundry

1. The number 1 way to save money when doing your laundry is to start washing everything in cold water. Washing machines and detergents have be engineered to clean just as well with cold water as they do with warm or hot water. Washing everything in cold water will also extend the life of your clothes.

2. Take some time each month to vacuum your lint traps in your dryer. While you have a lint filter to empty after each load, the filter cannot pick up all lint. Some gets trapped. This makes your dryer less efficient and therefore costs more to use. If you vacuum the lint from the dryer and exhaust your clothes get dry faster.

3. Stop using fabric softener and dryer sheets. Vinegar is great at making your clothes soft. So instead of fabric softener add some white vinegar in the rinse cycle to soften your clothes. To keep static away, you can use dryer balls, either made from aluminum foil or wool yarn. A few balls in each load will keep static at bay.

4. If you really don’t like the thought of using vinegar, you can easily make your own fabric softener for the dryer. Tossing a few sachets of dried lavender will add the fresh scent you like while helping to soften your clothes. These sachets will not reduce static, so be sure to toss in some dryer balls too.

5. Wash only full loads of laundry. This way you will wash fewer loads and fewer loads means you spend less.

6. Don’t be afraid of generic or store brand laundry detergent. The major manufacturers make these brands for stores so the quality is the same but the price is a lot less.

7. Laundry detergents are much stronger than you think. Combine that with the new higher efficiency washers and you only need to add half of the laundry soap you used to add. To ensure your laundry comes out just as clean as before, add some baking soda to each load. You laundry will just as clean, if not cleaner this way and you are saving quite a bit on laundry soap.

You will start to notice that you are saving money in just a few months by follow these 7 tips. You will be using less energy, less water, and less laundry detergent but you clothes will be clean and fresh.

November 21, 2014 By nickie Leave a Comment

How to Deal with Bulk Laundries

Most families accumulate a lot of laundry throughout the week. Since we all have busy schedules, there may be some weeks that go by before completing the entire bulk of laundry. This is because laundry can take a lot of time and energy if not well managed. It is therefore important to re- strategize on how to deal with bulk and huge laundry to be able to save time and cost.

Here are some important tips on how to deal with bulk laundries

1) Plan for wash days

For families with more than one child, it is important to do one load of wash a day. Make a wash plan for every week such as pants for Monday, cloths for Tuesday will help to keep every family member on track and keep the laundry floor cleaner. This will also prevent late night washing and also make laundry gathering easier.

2) Re-educate you family

Not all clothes should go to the laundry basket after being worn. Talk to your family member and reeducate them about dirty laundry and when it qualifies as a dirty clothe. Encourage family members especially the kids that clothes that are not dirty can be re-worn. This will help save time and money.

3) Wholesale on suppliers

Laundry products are expensive so always look for a way to save some coins. Buying at a wholesale store is cheaper because they offer larger boxes and bottles of detergents at a reasonable price. However, if you have to buy at your local store make sure you clip coupons. When washing ensure you use washing products according to directions to avoid wasting detergent unnecessarily. This will help you save a lot of money.

4) Try air drying

A good way to save money on laundry is to protect your clothes. This is by pretreating stains and air drying clothes. Every time you use the dryer, you will use a lot of electricity to dry your clothes and also the quality of your clothes is wearing down.

5) Make laundry day a family activity

All family members should get involved in laundry. By working as a family, laundry tasks will take less time than expected. If more hands are involved, it will consume less time to load and unload the washer and the dryer, to move and carry the laundry baskets, and also to fold and hang the clothes. It will also teach kids how to be more responsible in life. Laundry day may even turn out to be a fun day.

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