Tag: cleaning

  • New Laundry Stain Removal

    New Laundry Stain Removal

    Tonight I anointed my sweater with the kiss of ketchup. Lots of ketchup. This is my second favorite sweater so I wasn’t too pleased. In a lot of cleaning handbooks and guides there’s this guide to stain removal that is a bunch of arcane wizardry and mystical chanting, more or less ordering you to go…

  • Knit Dust Rags

    Knit Dust Rags

    So this is a practice run of stockinette stitch. It’s probably suitable for a beginner knitter. I’m not going to put in a tutorial here of how to knit or purl, cast on or bind off, or overhand-knot and weave in yarn ends, because you can find all those in various places online, but if…

  • An Attempt At Reusable Kitchen Washcloths

    An Attempt At Reusable Kitchen Washcloths

    This might not be the most accessible post but it is what it is. Here was my idea: what if I cleaned up the washcloths already in the kitchen, sterilized them, then kept them in the kitchen and used them only to clean said kitchen and its surfaces, cleaning them in the dishwasher in between?…

  • No microfiber cloth on hand

    No microfiber cloth on hand

    So if you have sunglasses, especially polarized ones, you’ve probably gotten smudges on them and furiously wiped them down with a T-shirt, yielding much disappointment. Going to the store to buy a glasses cleaning kit or a microfiber cloth for cleaning laptops and such is an option but not a very convenient one. Well as…

  • No Visuals: Uses Of Rags or Washcloths

    Washcloths Uses: Fold into quarters and use as a soap dish Use instead of a plastic scrubby to exfoliate skin in the shower or bath When you get soap slivers, wet down the washcloth and rub the soap into the washcloth to use up the soap Wipe down surfaces in the kitchen with dish soap…