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Best laundry tip ever

August 18, 2007 at 12:03 am · Filed under Miscellanea

I got a splinter yesterday while helping to set up tables after the wedding reception (long story) and dripped some spots of blood on my nice light pink skirt. My aunt gave me the best (and yuckiest) laundry advice I’ve ever heard: your own saliva will dissolve your blood. Spit on a bloodstain (or your finger) and rub it with your finger, and the stain dissolves like magic! I scrutinized the skirt this morning for remnants of blood that I might have missed last night, but there wasn’t the slightest discolouration left behind.

It wouldn’t work that well for a large stain, since you have to get it pretty wet with saliva before it works. Still a great tip, though.

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CJHill wrote, on August 18th, 2007 at 9:00 am:

Well, that’s interesting. Hopefully I’ll remember it if and when I need it.

Grandmothers are amazing people, aren’t t they?

cjh

Poodlerat wrote, on August 21st, 2007 at 12:44 pm:

Do remember it—it works just like magic! I’ve never found anything that would get blood out of clothes, but saliva seems to work even after the blood is dry.

Siew Cooper wrote, on August 22nd, 2007 at 5:13 am:

I’m tempted to try that some time when next I get a nosebleed. That actually ranks up there with my mum’s advice for a phlegmy throat: several bottles of strong beer.

Poodlerat wrote, on August 22nd, 2007 at 11:39 am:

I think I’d rather try the beer! Believe me, using your own saliva to rub bloodstains away: much grosser than it sounds. But it does work.

Beer for congestion. I’ll have to remember that one.

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