Money Saving Tips, Vinegar and Your Laundry
Times are tough and getting tougher for many. Many mainstream economists are predicting continued economic downturn and some are even encouraging us to prepare for hyper inflation. I wish I had the ability to tell you exactly what the future holds but I do not. I only know and understand that it is my responsibility to warn others when I have been warned. I have read and studied and thus I have been warned. I am trying to warn my neighbors, family and friends and I hope you are doing the same. I understand that if I fail to plan I am planning to fail. I don’t plan to fail.
I understand preparing for an earthquake, hurricane, flood, fire, burglary, Solar storms, EMP or terrorist attack is important. I also understand that right now the economy, world wide is the greatest common threat no matter where we live on the planet. I also understand it is not inexpensive to prepare, thus I am hoping to be able to help you economize in some other areas so you can devote more of your resources to stocking your General Store and preparing “every needful thing”.
Today I also understand caring for what we already possess is a great way to save money. Several years ago I taught a high school class called On Your Own. The goal of the class was to prepare students for real life. I taught a section on cooking from scratch, renting an apartment, buying a car, keep a budget, child care, and one section on removing stains and doing your laundry. At the end of that section one of the boys in the class, one who would rather have been anywhere other than that class, came to me and thanked me. He told me I had just saved him hundreds of dollars because when he had clothes that were stained he just threw them away. Yes, we need to care for what we already have and there will be less need to spend money replacing items we must have.
Following are some tips for using white distilled vinegar to preserve your clothing saving them from stains and disagreeable smells. There is also a tip for saving wear and tear on your washing machine thus saving repair and replacement costs.
Add Vinegar to the Wash Cycle and:
1. Prevent lint from clinging to clothes add 1/4 C white distilled vinegar.
2. Clothes smell bad? Pour a few cups of white distilled vinegar in the machine and wash the clothes. Then run a normal cycle with detergent.
3. Remove soap scum and clean the hoses of your washing machine with white distilled vinegar. Periodically run the machine with only a cup of white distilled vinegar in it—nothing else added to the wash cycle. This will be of great help if you find your hoses and pipes affected by home made laundry soaps.
4. Eliminate manufacturing chemicals from new clothes by adding 1/2 cup white distilled vinegar.
5. Add 1/4 C vinegar to your “bucket washer” if you are using home made soap. The vinegar will help the powdered soap to dissolve.
Add Vinegar to the rinse cycle and:
1. To remove soap residue that makes black clothes look dull
2. Get cleaner laundry! Add about 1/4 cup white distilled vinegar to the last rinse. The acid in white distilled vinegar is too mild to harm fabrics, yet strong enough to dissolve the alkalies in soaps and detergents. Besides removing soap, white distilled vinegar prevents yellowing, acts as a fabric softener and static cling reducer, and attacks mold and mildew.
3. Enhance colors, add 1/2 cup white distilled vinegar.
In addition:
Remove smoky odors from dry clean only clothing after a fire by hanging clothing above steaming water to which 1/2 C vinegar has been added. Do this in a laundry room sink and close the door so the steam can penetrate all the fibers in your garments.
Go get that vinegar I asked you to add to your General Store this week. It’s a great addition.
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