Fabulous cleaning product

Thank you, Beverly; I have heard this stuff works wonders, but have not seen it for sale. I am always staining a shirt, as well as DS. Emily

I don't think my DH ever ate spaghetti without getting marinara sauce on the front of his shirts. I am not sure about the aerosol product, mine is fluid, but it would probably be worth a try. As I recall, I got mine online at one of the big notions outfits but I haven't located it in anything smaller than 1 gallon containers now.

Beverly

I have an Edwardian hammered silver napkin clip, my dearly-beloved has a two-clip napkin chain. We don't go anywhere without them. We even carry our own 'proper' linen napkins when eating out if the restaurant only has paper napkins. Saved many a shirt/blouse/dress/sari from spills.

I'd venture to suggest they're very good for ladies who are possesed of a very ample mono-bossom......

Not a problem for me as I don't use a dryer. :-))

The product I use is called Napisan which is used for soaking babies nappies (diapers) in. I figure if it can get rid of sh...... excrement it can cope with all my spills and dribbles and all my husband's grease spots etc. Works a treat.

Must be sunnier where you live. Without a dryer I would spend six months of the year not washing clothes or linens in my part of the world.

What a great idea! And it's only 400 years old. ;-) I have noticed in recent years that I am frequently adorned with the last meal unless I am careful to lean far over the plate, which is not always possible and which looks a bit strange.

I remember when automatic washers and dryers became available to the middle class. My cousin and her husband had enough to buy one or the other, but not both. She opted for the dryer as being the greater help to her washday blues. They lived in the Pittsburgh PA area at the time, and it was an excellent choice.

I'm genuinely surprised that so many peops espouse the use of a drier. We had a Hoover washer/drier for many years, and you could count the number of times we used the drier on the the fingers of both hands.

Alright, I know the UK doesn't get the extremes of weather that you do in parts of the US, and we ain't exactly known for our months of hot sunny weather, but we never seem to have any probs getting clothes dry.

Canteen medals......

:-)

I've a friend here with no dryer. His wash consists mainly of work clothes - heavy jeans, flannel shirts, and the like. There are times when he hangs his clothes out -- and this is a very dry climate -- only to have them freeze in place. Once the water in them freezes, it doesn't evaporate, and the garments take on a rigidity not unlike rigor mortis. In desperation, he might bring one or two into the house and stand them in the corner for a while.

Yes; it's happened to me more than I care to say :)

Thanks for the tip, I'll definately look into this stuff.

-Irene

You're welcome, and good luck. ;-)

Beverly

A DS received a gift from someone in her Sunday School class, to hold a napkin in front; it was a piece of ribbon with 2 small clip-ons tacked to the ends. She wears it when eating in restaurants and has received many comments on the unique napkin-holder. She bought some of the clips at Michael's, she said, and promptly, with her friend's permission, made gifts for Christmas. But she didn't give me one, Boo-Hoo-hoo. Emily

I wish I'd known such things existed. My husband's late grandfather suffered from some sort of non-parkinsonian tremors and in his latter years usually required some sort of bib while eating. He'd have enjoyed using an appliance with such a distinguished pedigree.

We also happened to buy some miniature clothes pegs - 'silver' metal and about 3/4" long - intended for crafting, card making I think. They've been pressed into service as napkin holders as well!

Must be a man thing. I can only prise my husbands jeans away from him to give them a wash when he stands them in the corner. He reminds me of the character called 'Pigpen' in 'Peanuts' - travels with his own dust bowl.

I am also in the UK and would not be without my tumble dryer. We have a very small back yard (7' x 11') and the facing means that it only gets sun in the mornings and being sheltered by the terrace (houses all joined together), not much breeze either. Without the dryer I would have a house festooned with damp washing for much of the year and would end up heating the entire house in order to dry the washing for our family of 4.

Lizzy

I'm lucky in having both a large garden (long and narrow, but there's