Focus 580; Household Hints

Good morning welcome to focus 580. This is our telephone talk program with names David Inge and we're glad to have you with us this morning. We also welcome back to the program Marion feel good. She's consumer and family economics educator with the extension in Champaign County. And over the years as been here now and again to help out with the program that we call household hints and we've talked about a lot of different things. She concentrates on things like household organization. Also we've talked about things like dealing with cleaning issues and stain removal and a wide variety of stuff. Very practical information that from time to time I think comes in pretty handy. If you've heard the programs we've done with Marion before you get a sense of the kinds of things that we have talked about. So if you have a question along these lines please do give us a call and I think we'll have do pretty good business I think in past when Marion has been here we've gotten lots of calls so she'll do her best with your question and all you have to do is call us and think we have somebody right here ready to go. Let me give the phone numbers first and then we'll

talk to the first caller in Champaign-Urbana 3 3 3 9 4 5 5. Also we have a toll free line. That one is good anywhere that you can hear us. And that is 800 to 2 2 9 4 5 5 3 3 3 W I L L and toll free 800 1:58 WLM. Well thanks for being here. Well you're welcome. Nice to be here. We want to be a good way to start off the year people or if one of their resolutions was trying to be more organized we maybe we can talk about that's that's actually I don't I tend not to make resolutions because I never keep them. But this year in our house we've said that in terms of our record keeping getting all of our important papers together in the same place and where we can easily get at them that's what we're going to do so and we can talk about that in any case. We have a call here to start with in Urbana line number one. Hello. Good morning. Yes I'm not quite on target but I hope you'll let me come in because I do have a clue. Justin I guess I can say it's the organization of ground beef and sort

of coming in on your word. And I think Marianne can answer this question. I was at the grocery store and a woman was buying a large amount of ground beef and I said I you know that's a lot of chili or hamburgers. And she said no I buy it and then I separate it into different packages and I put it in my freezer. When somebody else is listening and he piped up and he said Oh we said we just make it into Patty and make the whole thing into patties and then we put them in the freezer and then we take out as many as we want. Now is that really the second idea is that really a safe thing to do. As far as handling the ground beef. While food safety is not my area of expertise anymore but I think I could help you out there as long as you know you use good good procedures to do that and freeze promptly don't let it set three days in the refrigerator before you do that and all that sort of thing. You should have no problems doing that and

concerned because. He said he did it with his hands and I wasn't sure. You know well it's probably no different than you're doing you know and then setting him back on the refrigerator for a while before you know I go ahead and cook. Some people like to freeze those like on a cookie sheet as so that then and then you know within a couple hours once they're firm. Put them into good storage containers or double wrap them or something like that so they can take out one or two and and use from that standpoint my concern with fuel found is and I mean I never make my hamburgers in until just before they're going to be cooked and I just you know I deal with you know once a product and particularly like ground beef or any of those who have been exposed to air. The more we handle on that there is a little more potential but you're going to put it in the freezer. What he did. So I tell him I was wrong and he doesn't have to worry about this I call it. OK thank you so much and I'm sorry it isn't

completely on point but people were buying ground beef because it's on sale. My phone rang. OK thank you. You know I don't think so well that's fine. I don't I don't want to discourage people from asking a question as long as they understand that it's possible that Marion might say well that's a good question but I'm really not the person to answer it. Though I know that she's got a lot of information right at her fingertips or on pieces of paper right here and in front of her. Just just a general question further. We have had this concern about food handling with both poultry and beef particularly with ground beef. And the thing that people need to make sure that is that they are these things are properly cooked. And when you handle them you know make sure that you always wash your hands afterwards. And also you've got to be real careful about the work surfaces that you use that you don't you know say handle raw chicken and have that on your cutting board and then come right along and do something on that that then

you will eat. That's correct and on a falcon in our office is the nutrition wellness person does a lot with food safety and so forth in hearing her. The last several years you know she would reiterate Yes that's true in just you know using good care and caution and really thinking the process through is important. And there's still reason for people to be concerned about the handling and cooking ground beef. Very definitely. I mean any meat you know in poultry in particular but the ground beef we one of the reasons that it's more susceptible is because it has more potential to have all of it exposed to air and everything through the grinding process and so you have all of those mini surfaces versus just you know one or four large surfaces. OK. Next we'll talk with someone in Ashmore and lie number four. Well I don't know. Yes I have had a problem with either gnats or fruit flies and I have not

found a solution to rid them of my kitchen area other than putting the food up it does seem to diminish them. But they seem to keep reoccurring. You probably do have you know the eliminating the sourcing initially in really working from their standpoint. You probably can you know keeping things out of sight in containers and I know with fresh fruit a lot of times we like to leave it out just for it to continue to ripen a little bit or easy to grab and so forth to stack on. But doing there making sure that you wipe down countertop areas in and all of that is really important. I don't have anything with me that kind of tells all this is what you can use some of the sprays that you use are not recommended around food products so if you do decide I'm going to really attack it from that standpoint make sure you read directions on labels

and really follow their recommendations because now all of them are recommended to use around food in many of them. I would not recommend at all you know spraying on countertops or anything like that. Maybe along the baseboard of your flooring or something but you need to be to be real careful from that standpoint. You might just kind of think through now. Are they worse in one spot or something in. Is there something there that I haven't thought of that maybe is drawing them in this cold weather you know people kind of are finding once in a while some of those little critters that found their way into our nice warm homes and causing more problems. I was just wondering are everything a natural kind of deterrent for these. I've heard of a couple things but I can't recommend him because I don't know there are research based in tried and true. All right well thank you very much. Thank you. Next we will talk with someone

in Bourbonnais and this is line number two. Well I one thing about having fruit flies the upside of that is they're really quite beautiful. There are kind of a translucent red that really pleasant to look at. Well there's if you can take a good attitude I guess that's friendly to you. They won't sting you at least no they don't. I have actually several quick questions. Thank you. I have an. Carpeting but I thought that Leslie put down a Green Guide rug without without it had underneath it and left it there for more than a year. And now that area has a greenish tinge to it. Ha. Books are magic. All well of course the wand is out. One of the things basically what you have is a dye transfer stain and you might try using one of the dry

cleaning solvents like inner Jean Carmona. You are one of those. Ok use a blotting motion. See if you can pick up any of the stain with that. Many times that will work on some of the die types of stains. If something's going to lighten and bring it up try to you know area small area first just don't you know and definitely put it on the cloth that you're using to remove it with verses directly onto your good carpet. That's what you meant by blotting blotting isn't up down motion vs.. Yes like a padding motion vs. a scrubbing motion scrubbing and scouring motion tends to spread the stain outward as well as spread it. We have a tendency to apply pressure and so we push it into the fiber rather than lift it out. OK so when we do stain removal it usually recommend that up down block motion vs. a scrubbing

scouring motion. OK OK if that shouldn't work what about Google. What is the fiber content of your carpet. I don't know what I mean. Most likely it's going to be an synthetic fiber. Besides damaging the fibers many times it will turn synthetics a yellow and completely different color. So I would not recommend plain bleach. OK thank you. You're welcome. Another question I had. You have any tips for moving heavy furniture over carpeting when you. Why yourself. The main chip by putting something under so that it will slide like pieces of cardboard. Right. You know plastic lids. Depending on what it is you're trying to move but you know that you can put something on so that it can slide. The other thing is remembering good you know techniques of you know not just pushing you

know from the upper back but bending your knees and doing now so that you get don't get the strain on your back as well as a little more leverage. All right. Thank you. And finally. What do you know about a sulfurous smell in in tap water. We do have a well here. And there is a kitchen sink and a bathroom sink and a tub. And only the bathroom sink when when you turn on the tap the water has the sulfurous smell. Mostly started using dissipates after about 45 seconds. Is that the closest to your water source you're well aware I may collect in Loma. I mean there that is not unusual for well water in certain areas to have that and some people have it worse than others and so there are some of your water softener and water purifying systems

can have things added to that that can help to take care of that. Many of them can be expensive and you want to make sure that when you talk to somebody about doing that that they really have experience in that the treatment will work for your particular water condition. But if it's not too bad sometimes that can be taken out through water treatment. OK well thank you very much. You're welcome. I queue for the corner. OK OK. Sure thing. This morning our guest is Mary and if you get She's consumer and family economics educator with you by extension in Champaign County and it's a household has got to show you have questions on dealing with basic problems around the house. Give us a call and Marion will do her best to give you an answer. Just real quick because it's related I collected a few questions around the station before getting started and this is also a dye transfer question I guess someone was wondering about what happens when in the washer maybe you get something

that some dye has come off of one item and it's gotten on something else and you've done the wash and you pull the you know you pull your white T-shirt out and suddenly you realize it's got something on it. What's the best way to deal with it. Well many times if you can soak it immediately if it's you know like a cotton product or anything other than silk or wall in like an inn sign sometimes that will will help to lift that collar out. Definitely don't put it in the dryer. Then you have to determine what the fiber content is what sorts of possibly bleaching it could have what do you need. If it's got a synthetic fiber and basically if it's anything other than 100 percent cotton you probably shouldn't use chlorine bleach on it so you may be able to use an oxygen bleach or one of those solutions sometimes you can spot it. With the dry cleaning solvent sometimes if it's really bad let it air dry and take it to dry cleaners they may be able to get out. Generally that happens with of course Reds in some

of our real Dark Blues The Navy says but because those dyes I think we tend to most over over die and it's the surface that comes out so making sure the first several times those colors in particular you tend to launder by themselves. Even though you think oh I've worn it several times it's probably OK. Making sure that it's not. That's actually something that I've noticed recently on some things that I have bought. They actually have said even before you wear it the first time I washed this and now that I think about it I don't know what colors these things have been but I don't remember in the past. I'm trying to be pretty good and look at the labels and pay attention to the washing instructions but I don't really remember in the past very many things saying watch this first before you wear it well and I think some of you in the processing of they're doing it they're not doing it there before in the manufacturing process.

They're letting the consumer do it. Don't worry just baby because they've had more consumer awareness brought to their their focus and attention that they decide well people are things or just because of the cracking up on you know if you wear a T-shirt or something underneath a sweater sometimes just that friction causes that and if you wash it sometimes that that helps to alleviate some of that problem. OK well let's continue we have the next caller in Salem one number one. Hello. Versus the fruit fly. I like to use those fly strips. If you put him in the area where the fruit flies are I don't usually get them in the winter than usual I think that they attach to those biceps really well. Or Also they will drown in a bottle of wine if you have a little wine left in a bottle they go in there and they think it's liberated maybe. Probably just really like that. I want to know I have a type that is made out of this coat

the COSC right and I want to know what that was it to dry cream but I really prefer to wash my thing in cold water. Something else is a form of rain. It's in the family. Iran would be the generic name Disco says you know one of those forms of that sort of petroleum. No it's not a petroleum product. You know it's a cellulose type of fiber. And it's probably you know it has a reason for dry cleaning. One of the reasons may be color setting cracking many times a viscous array on fibers have a very warm look to them you know pretty colors and a combination of colors. Sometimes it will lose its body become very limp and so forth. My general rule is you follow the care instructions that the manufacturer gave with it

until you decide that if something happened to it. When I take care of it I won't be upset with myself because I've gotten my money's worth out of the wearability of it and I'm ready to say you know I'm not going to put any more money into the dry cleaning and I'd like to wear some more but if something happens to it I'm happy and I'll take my risk and do some other care. But you could end up with a product that is not wearable if you launder it. Yeah it sort of looks like a pile with dark brown. It would probably strengthen too right. The potential is there definitely for it to shrink. OK is there anywhere to go to find like what fabric are there. Different thing you try to buy but I like this quote I was wondering and other things they see in the store and they list the product service the fabric

with what they're made out of. I'm sure there is some trying to you where you might want to contact your local extension office center in Salem would be there in Marion County Marion County and ask them if they could find a list for you. Thank you. Oh and thanks for the call. Thank you thank you. It's one thing that I find really curious is maybe it's just it shows you things go in cycles after such a long time of natural fabrics being so popular and people seeming to want everything in cotton or you know other things like that. Now there seems to be a return to popularity of synthetics and I guess I'm not really sure why is there a good reason to choose. Particularly in clothing to choose synthetic over a natural fiber. Well I think some of our synthetics we can do fabulous things with and we can get light weight and warmth. Think about those heavy wool

coats you know layer upon layer that people wear now versus some of those light thermal types of jackets light weight you know they can put the fiber fills in and have a lot of warmth that sort of thing. A lot of our exercise aware that they can put some expandability into it for stretching wear cotton. You know it's pretty hard to get get some of that in it. They can. They're they keep experimenting in coming up through their research with different things that they can do with those fibers that get different looks. Well with cotton in particular you can have a lot of different looks you know from your fine cotton sheer blouses let's say to denim jeans which could be a hundred percent cotton and that but just the variation and we like change as well as some of the dye. Color wise what you can get textures that you can do with a synthetic So it's it's it's a combination

of reasons plus you know also I think part of any of us they want us to keep buying clothing instead of wearing the same thing for 50 years. OK I can understand that. Another call here Bloomington line number four. Hello good morning good morning. Your mention was wrong. Yes yes. Years ago. OK two are put out sort of a paste in a two that weren't you. I can't find that anymore and I don't a thing that I can find is in a spray can. Do you know whether they're still manufacturing. Kate you are in the queue. I can't answer that. You might double check the container and see if they have a consumer number or an 800 number on there and contact them. Maybe some of the other listeners now and I haven't particularly looked for that so I can't tell

you yes they are no they're not. Do you and do you recall that. Seems now that you mention it but 20 years ago or beautiful you picked on small spots it was you could just take a dab of this paste and. Rub it into the pot and let that dry and you brush that off and the spot was absolutely clear. And there are different formulations for different ones of those spot removers even within the same you know prewash treatments and that some things that are an aerosol can do something different than the gel will be. Even though it may have the same brand name on it. So there are different formulations and different things. Actually I was Kate you are right but that was the brand name. I mean you can buy another one that I think you can buy spray in warsh which is you know up rabbit pretreatment. You can buy it in a gel

form you can buy it in liquid form and you can buy like a squirt form and you can buy it in an aerosol. Well the aerosol has a petroleum base different than the one that's in the let's say the squirt bottle So even within the same brand name there formulations can be different. Well I don't like very much because you can't control it. So I was just running with it. Still got this. If you are in the place sorry I can't write much down. Well they actually were Co. We're already after midpoint here Mary and if you get is the guest use consumer and family economics educator with University of Illinois extension in Champaign County. And every once in a while stops by we do these household his kind of programs to try to help you with basic problems around the house so if you have a question you can call us and Marion will see if she can help you out here in Champaign Urbana 3 3 3 9 4 5 5. We also do have the toll free line good anywhere that you can hear us that's

800 to 2 2 9 4 5 5. Back here next I thinks to someone locally yes in herb Anna line number two. Hello. Hi i. Don't I thank you to be able to give me a short answer over the phone because I'm. Somewhat disorganized. I am a pack rat and I don't put things away when I ask you Do you have any suggestions for a resort where I could try and get things in order. Well then I think there are lots of books out there on the market then you know depending upon. I would go to the lightly your local library and just kind of look through those because each of us has a different style and want one book kind of appeals to one person another book appeals to the other. One of the things that I think kind of helps to kind of make a To Do list of what what you want to get accomplished and then figure out how you can divide it into small tasks

instead of starting with that from after. For every and say I've got to do the whole house or whatever because to me that's insurmountable. If there's one you know in the pantry in your kitchen is where you want to start. Say today or this week I'm going to tackle the pantry and then then do the next step and the next step. So that's kind of a continuous process. They even recommend that starting like in your closet. Don't pull everything out of the closet at once because then you end up with such a pile a thick thick Apple but maybe you know take the upper shelf of your closet. Do it for store take the floor and do it first or even one section of the closet and we're pull it out. Deal with it and then move on to the next section. Don't dump everything out of your dresser. You know take wonder or at a time dividing that into a task and say and the other thing that I think sometimes helps is to tell people you're doing this so that you can profess to them I

did it. You know that's maybe one of my techniques is saying you know I'm going to clean closets you know this week and a closet this week and then I can report you know when they say well did you get it done. You know after six weeks of telling them I'm going to do it I haven't done it gets kind of embarrassing I go ahead and do it type of thing. So you need to think through you know what little trick of the trade will work for me. Right. Then you might also divide things into sections. Those that you definitely want to keep those that may be of potential that I will say OK in a year out revaluate do I need this. And then those that I you know just don't need. And when I say I don't need them maybe it can go into several piles. One it can go into the garage sale pile or the you know goodwill type Salvation Army pile giveaway pile. Maybe you know a friend who really likes this. Maybe that's something they will use

or like. And then the other one is go into the trash pile so you know breaking it down into sections I think makes it doable versus trying to tackle it all at once and too much at once. OK I have a question for you. I have been bullied. Dealing with a paper only one time which is a great theory. However when he gets the mail if he doesn't look at it right away he puts it on the desk on his desk. So then he gets these great big piles of stuff that needs to be dealt with. Well then he takes this theory. I'm going to deal with this one time. My thought is if he's not going to take care of it right away when he goes to address that big pile on the desk he should be sorting it right away he should be pulling out all the mail that does need to be dealt with put it in a pile find the garbage get rid of that find a pile of stuff that can be filed and divide things into piles rather than going mess a daughter Misato through each piece and dealing with it. You know what I mean because I write

like there's more stuff piling up behind him that he's not going to get to be seen. Think it through the day. Am I right in thinking that we really need to be dividing things into piles. Well I think probably many of us operate that way. There is a lot of that period you know handle something wants and deal with it and usually people who do that tend not to have piles accumulate as much in this fast so I guess my theory on that would be if he deals with it and gets dealt with. Be happy that he's dealing with you go to deal with some other hell sorting and do from that aspect. Melee is a problem. My recommendation is if you can open it the day it comes. We sorted into this goes to the wastebasket this is a bill to be paid put it on the envelope the day the due or if you have a certain time of day in a week that you pay bills or month. Do that on a regular basis and then

go from there or the to be read file pile. Set up one of the things that we tend in our busy lives not to do is have a routine time to do things and if you can set up a routine time that every Saturday morning we're going to deal with this every Thursday night. Whatever the time happens to be to deal with it at that particular time. Plan for it just like you plan for other activities in the summer time to mow the lawn or whatever you do. We develop a routine time when we develop a routine time. We're much more likely to attack it in a systematic way and not get you know so kind of build up. I find if you know like I am an hour on Saturday mornings that I can you know enter things into my spreadsheet program pay bills you know kind of catch up on things. Things don't get ahead of me. Okay that's very helpful that I hadn't thought about the idea of planning that time for

it but that is a good idea to think that I'm always trying to do it right. You know what. You know to making a big move. To put out a block of time. OK thank you. I want to thank you for the call. Just maybe at this point I will mention and will try to mention again at the end of the show that the extension has a consumer and family economics website that has information on the kind of things we're talking about here this morning so you might take a look at it. If you have questions about things like credit and financial management and stain removal and much more as it says you can look at it and the address is web. That's w e b dot aces a c e s dot UIUC dot edu. Then you got to do a forward slash and then put in C F for consumer family economics. So again it's web dot Ace's dot UIUC dot edu slash CFE slash. And

actually I think I did this one time and found out if you just got to the aces website then there's a good length right so that maybe that makes a little bit easier to do. Aces UIUC dot edu and you will get there and that will be one way to get some of this information when Marianne is not around but she's here right now and if you have questions you can call us 3 3 3 W while toll free 800 to 2 to W while the next caller in line would be in Urbana line number one. Hello hello. Yeah I have a story. Back on the good bit on organization but I'd like to go back to the spot cleaning. OK after. Testing the fluid as you're going to use for removing put it around the spot not on the spot because it tends to make whatever's in the spot you stand there on the spot. I think a bigger spot. If you play around on the cleaning garment to make it

slow toward the middle pick it up there with a clean cloth of front and back. Then you won't wind up with a bigger spot. Well I think you're right. That's one of the reasons I often say use the bloody motion vs. ascribing motion or if you are going to feel like you have to do a little bit go from the outside of the stained area towards the inside and so what you're saying helps to move the remover into the center and definitely right because we have a tendency to start in the middle in do a circular motion grabbing scouring motion that just spreads it. You're right. OK thank you. Thank you and to Mt. Carmel for the next caller here line number four. Hello good morning. Yes thanks for having reception. I think one time before on the show I heard you say Are you knew how to get. And a person stains out of pure perspiration

stains usually are one of those that sometimes take a little bit of work but you can use a pre-war stain remover or rub with a bar of soap and by Barroso I mean more a product like ivory or file snaps or one of those not one of the deodorant you know lotion soaps that so many of us use in our bathing and showering. From that standpoint if you feel like there's still some left then you can use a solution about half and half of white vinegar and water and soak that in and then rinse it out and then laundered it as you normally would. You know the stain is from the inner person. That I'm using no fake right. Probably or you know some people's bodies just seems like it accumulates more so you're really trying to get rid of that. That's correct. Okay thanks. Your welcome is very good thank you next is

Line 3 this is back in Urbana. Hello good morning. Yes I have a question can you name this thing something like I see food. Some of them with I mean the reso something. From one that you can normally launder the war or is it a dry clean it. I'm not sure because it's something that we kind of break. Somebody made it doesn't have any information about that could mean it is something. It would do OK if you think it's longer bull of course you can use one of the spray pre washes or spot remover sometimes and even just put it on a cloth in dab it on and then a little bit of water if you think it needs. The other thing you could

use a dry cleaning solvent. It will not work as good on main food stains unless you have an oily food stain. You need to use an oily base in ice cream would have let's say for example have some oil so grease stain. The dry clean solvent again on a cloth would work or you know if you question it any time that you think it's you know product that you're not sure whether what the care instructions are probably best to take to a dry cleaner and have them professionally do it. A lot of dry cleaners prefer you not trying pre spot it because sometimes we drive it further in makes their job that much more difficult to get out. Definitely Usually they say you know using a product there are those little pads that you can buy that you can carry in your purse or pocket that are you know in the pre-war treatments. But you can

do on the spot type of thing and some people carry those I know with them too specially as they travel and so forth for short term spot removals within my budget subject to things that either a fabric store or many of our grocery stores and discount stores in the laundry supply section have many of the products that I've been sharing with most of them will have the products that I've been sharing with just something so maybe for something if it had something to shout is the brand name that I'm familiar with that has a little shout pads that come in and will individual. May almost look like hand wipes that you can use. Thank you. You're welcome and thank you for the code. We have about 10 minutes left here with Mary and if you have questions this is one of our household hints you know we try to do on a fairly regular basis because we know people are always going to have these kind of questions and we don't like to try to help you so

you can give us a call 3 3 3 9 4 5 5 toll free 800 2 2 2 9 4 5 5 2. Champagne for our next person this is line number two. Hello. Hello. I I think I was somewhat off track was that were we talking about organizing and maybe setting up some things in our homes. But I would like to mention two things. The first is the lady who is trying to organize her houses so many of us. And they misuse it could it could address if he thinks this would be helpful. I have found and some of my friends have found that it is where to begin. One place to begin is that avalanche of mail that comes every single day and if you just go to a local office supply store and get one of those three or four level trays in it and just take your mail to the waste basket. You'll be surprised how much you'll get rid

of those things. Don't even need to be open and go right into the trash if you're someone who likes to shred you can have your shredder right there and spread those things immediately and then have a place for bills how to have a place for social correspondence and maybe a container for each member of the family. And if you just do that every single day you have a time set aside every day to think about that and at least you'll feel good about not letting the mail get any worse. And if you do have a. Few minutes to sit down and pay bills you find that going through the pile and finding the bills is a bigger job than the task you're trying to accomplish. And I think that has been helpful to a lot of people. My other thing is so many of us are trying to set up home offices and I was wondering if the extension department would have some help or is there many of us have a couple of computers in the household and and we have some business things and we have some personal things and we also have become

inundated with the emails that we need to deal with every day. And I was wondering if you had suggestions are you know as it is which a bedroom now that the kids are gone or are we going to set aside an area in new construction or just where can can we go to get really good information about the cabinetry and even some of the. Let's try it. We have a little an extension probably not as much as I'd like to see because just the way our backup system and that has to do with it I think a lot has to do with your good suggestions of how you operate getting organized. Looking at some of that many recommendations are that you have a current file things that you know operate in this is a good time of year to kind of clean the past years your 2000s current file out. Set up your 2001 save what's necessary and.

Eliminate what's not necessary. Do you need those power bills for the past two years that we have a tendency to accumulate. Looking it at some of those. Or in then if you do need some of that information then move it to a more permanent file. Remember some of the long term permanent files don't have to be easy access I think sometimes we keep those in a prime spot when they could be you know boxed and maybe moved to location where yet they're safe but we know they're there and they're well able to give our current space a little more usable space and I know I usually try January-February to sort through and you know I still cumulate more than I should I know. But do I really need this or is it something that I can eliminate. I think when you talk about computers email and so forth saying Do I really need to keep this. Is it just something I'd like to have

a rounder and I accumulated and added more than is really necessary from that standpoint. I hope that helps you just keep on going here and get as many folks in as we can and our next caller would be Urbana line number one. Hello hello yes. My son got a Christmas present which was a sweater. I don't have the label with me so I can't tell you exactly what it was but some kind of knit fabric in probably a mix of cotton and some synthetic and it got washed in before you years it was spotted with red from something else that was in the laundry and I wondered maybe this is something you actually did cover earlier I had spotting but I didn't hear spotting from laundry. What do you suggest we do to this fabric. You don't know what the other fiber content is then is that a colored sweater. Is that light in color. Pretty light buff colored you know some neutral toes. You can try the soaking in Priest so such as x e

on our beers or some of our d to her just as they contain an enzyme you can check that by reading the label see if that will light note at all. If not then you can try using some dry clean solvent on it and see if that will lift it. Last resort would be you know an oxygen bleach followed by a Korean bleach but the chlorine bleach with the fiber as will you know could damage the fiber as well as it could. You know since it's a beige color me bleach out some of that color as well die transfers are one of those Ahar things to get rid off as you well know. It's actually you know it's dye in the fibers and and it's soaked into that fiber and those colors are pretty powerful initially so that they kind of stay in our fibers and so when they get where they're not supposed to. It creates more challenges for us.

All right thanks a lot. Good luck and thank you and to Charleston line number three. Hello. And I well yes I have handled you know probably a fair call. I had turned away and I had sort of a heavy duty. Other people. OK I'm assuming all these items are washable so we don't have to worry about that. Scrape off with a dull object your finger or whatever as much of the candle wax as you possibly can. Then take white or a light clean tarry towel or something like that. Put it underneath it as well as on top and use just a slightly warm iron and keep transferring it to the iron so that you get rid of the wax from there. You need to keep changing the place on the paper towel and so that you're you know moving it can absorb into a new new place. From that standpoint then you probably will have a grease stain

left there and that's when they knew you would apply a dry cleaning solvent to that area. Kind of work it in and let it dry and then go ahead and launder it as you normally would. So thank you with the above and underneath it moving that story right. All right thank you so much. You're welcome thank you and to dollar go further draw your line to before. Hello hello. Yes I inherited her appellate cases that were partially embroidered and the embroidery were left on and there is the rest under the arm. I was wondering how to get. Their cotton polyester rust stains you know really kind of difficult if this is an item that has a lot of meaning to you. My recommendation would be to take it to a dry cleaner if it's one that you want to try a little bit. Sometimes you can lighten

rusty chains with lemon juice and put it out in the sun. You have to wait a little while to get that probably opportunity. Yes it kind of causes it more of a bleaching action to occur from that standpoint for the item that you put I wouldn't use anything like some of the commercial rest removers are pretty strong and caustic as well as it probably will. Do something to the embroidery thread as well as as the pill cases and so forth so and then once you get that kind of bleached out then you can go ahead and carefully launder them. Thank you very much. All right and thank you and back to pain alone too. Hello Good good morning. Just have a few quick quick questions. Have different type of dances you know like in the carpet above the carpet and have an old coffee stain pick somebody in a cup of coffee to try to clean it but then kind of go there and then the other kind is like an identity of any of us

to pamper something that happened once in a vial Japan might be leaking came through on those little patches of third kind I have is that in a nice little you know and so on. You have this food stamp example electo making though in and cook food. If that goes on there. OK. Those So sure probably I would take to the dry cleaner. OK. Because I think the more you mess with the more damage you're going to do this your self from that standpoint the ink stain. I would start by sponging it with a dry cleaning solution. And then if there's still some more left then make a solution. Oh half teaspoon or so per cup of water and dishwashing detergent and work that into it and then you might even need to.

Some ammonia and water solution in a tablespoon per cup and work they add in some of our inks are permanent and they are very difficult if not impossible to remove. So just kind of keep that in mind when you work with the ink stain and then the other one was the carpet. The coffee. OK the coffee again and you can use the dry kind of a detergent solution with the dishwashing detergent and water in and work on that and then you can use a vinegar water solution kind of one part vinegar one part water and the older the stain the more you kind of have to repeat in alternate those then fall with a clear water rinse on the end and then we're going to go here we're past our time when we say thanks very much to Mary and if you get from you by extension in Champaign

County for being here we appreciate it. You're welcome to add another day I'm sure she'll come back and we will do it again.