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  • #590741
    MOMof4
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    I have a problem with a shirt. It has a musty smell and I can’t get it out. I febreezed (if that’s a word!) and washed it many times. Do you have suggestions?

    #667859
    tamazaball
    Member

    why does it smell what touched that shirt?, leave it soaking in hot water with vanish or oxy clean for a couple of hours, see if that works,

    #667860
    ronrsr
    Member

    if the smell is moldy, try adding a cup of ammonia to your next wash. Don’t do this if you’re also using bleach, however.

    #667861
    mazca
    Member

    make sure is completely dried, somethimes clothing get a smell because they are not fully dried.

    #667862
    Poster
    Member

    Put it in the dryer with a bounce sheet. make sure it dries completely.

    #667863
    A600KiloBear
    Participant

    BS”D

    Yes, what tamazaball suggested sounds best – oxygen bleach. We in Creedmoor use it to bleach even drug money with great success :)))). (Seriously I use it in exceptionally polluted, super hard water to soak tzitzis and it works very well).

    The chemical in it (sodium perborate) should act as a disinfectant and it also reacts with chemicals in the water that may be responsible for the odor.

    #667864
    MOMof4
    Member

    I can’t use bleach bec. it’s a black shirt and I can’t dry bec. it will shrink.

    #667865
    jphone
    Member

    Perhaps a few spoons of baking soda in your next load?

    They also say coffee is good at absorbing odors.

    #667866
    tamazaball
    Member

    MOM oxyclean and vanish are not bleach! they sell it in the supermarket it just takes off dificult stains, i do not use bleach myself it ruins the clothing making it grey and stains everything.

    #667867
    Who Cares?
    Member

    Hang it up outside to get rid of the smell.

    #667868
    bein_hasdorim
    Participant

    Try soaking it in lemon juice, or vinegar for 2 hours, then pop in the washing machine, with some non liquid detergent on hot/warm cycle. then dry.

    #667869
    tamazaball
    Member

    MOMof4 how did the shirt turn out??

    #667870
    jphone
    Member

    If the smell didnt come out, this will have to be escalated to the level of a Laundry Crisis. Once it is labeled a crisis all the closet askanim will emerge and use their connections at the best chineese laundries to ensure your shirt comes out smelling like a bed of roses.

    #667871
    MOMof4
    Member

    Thanks y’all for your suggestions. I’m going to try the lemon juice ideanext.

    jphone-youre funny!

    #667872
    ronrsr
    Member

    first, you must get 70 laundresses and launders to sign an appeal. They need not all be Chinese.

    #667873
    mazca
    Member

    Be careful not to put crayons in the dryer. It could ruin all the clothing!!

    #667874
    smartcookie
    Member

    Help help help!!!

    Any ideas how to get out stains from a pen that leaked straight onto a white men’s shirt?

    Shirt is full of black ink stains…

    Thanks in advance!

    #667875
    anonymrs
    Participant

    i had that with my towels. i was going to throw them out, but my mother in law said that i should wash them in hot water with wisk, and them dry them on high heat. it worked great!!

    #667876
    smartcookie
    Member

    Anonymrs- thank you. But doesn’t hot water set stains into the fabric?

    I rewashed the shirt and sprayed the stains w oxiclean. But it came out with the same ink color again. Nothing changed.

    #667877
    willi
    Member

    For any tough stains, I’ve had the best experience with ZOUT. And I’ve also noticed that when soaked overnight in a bowl with Tide (plain or tide with bleach) & water, that was usually enough.

    Btw smartcookie for future reference, hairspray is supposed to remove (fresh) ink stains as well so guess it doesn’t hurt to try that as well.

    #667879
    smartcookie
    Member

    Ok….I admit…I took the easy way out and just dumped that shirt last night….

    #667880
    tamazaball
    Member

    my husbands white sneakers got dirty with paint, any suggestions for it to go off????? you would really help me out here.

    #667881
    ronrsr
    Member

    paint over the colored paint with white paint?

    #667882
    mybat
    Member

    Tamazaball toss them and buy him new ones or tell him to wear it like that (tell him that they look like he bought them like that!);)

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