getting older
This weekend, I bought cloth napkins. Just now, I was putting things away and I thought, hmm, where do the cloth napkins go? If I were really a grown-up, I'd have a drawer for napkins, and napkin rings. (Come to think of it, I think I actually do own some napkin rings that I bought years ago simply because they were gorgeous and I thought I'd probably have napkins someday to put them around.)
This growing up thing is just one problem after another. You think you're mature because you have some cloth napkins, but you still are too disorganized to have a napkin drawer. And hell, maybe someday I'll be lucky enough to have space to designate a napkin drawer, but something else will elude me.
For now I'm excited to have cloth napkins, and a new laundry quandry - how do you keep them clean? I have never understood the bleach thing, really. Must be part of getting older - learning how to bleach things. I'm open to advice.
posted by sarah @ 1:35 PM
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About the bleach thing, I have issues with that myself and I am a "grownup"! One solution that has been suggested to me and that works is to only get white napkins or tablecloths and then bleach everything and stains will come out while they do not with colored or printed ones because you cannot use bleach. Also....try one of those bleach pens that they sell near the detergent and use it right away or apply directly to the stain before washing and that ought to do it. Better yet......ask Lester for his laundry tips, they always work!
Forgot to mention that I am happy to see you have such a problem to deal with, this is a milestone! I can tell you from my aerie of grownupness that I do not have a napkin drawer either, so do not fear, you can still get into the club.
okay but how do you "bleach everything" - just dump it in the washing machine? and with how much bleach? liquid or powder? doesn't it smell when you're done?
I am hoping that your machine has a bleach dispenser and then you put the bleach into that. I have been using Chlorox's new nice smelling liquid bleach and it does a fabulous job. The container will tell you how much to use depending on the size of your load. And when you get bleach with one of the nicer scents, your laundry will not smell badly.
Dude, forget bleach. It's all about Oxyclean. Fill your sink with water, dump a scoop of oxyclean in it, and let the napkins soak overnight. Then wash as normal. No need for bleach. That stuff stanks.
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