I'm so beyond frustrated at this point so I'm going to you all for help, tips, and advice.
Kayla has to be one of the messiest kids I know when it comes to eating and doing artwork. She's pretty careless when she's holding a marker, paintbrush, or pen, not paying attention to when she's waving her arm around. So she tends to get a lot of marks on her shirts.
Couple that with a mother who very obviously doesn't seem to have laundry as a strong point, and you have a kid with some kind of stain on just about every shirt she owns.
Again, I'm beyond frustrated. It's hard to dress her every morning when I'm looking at faded stains throughout her wardrobe. I hate buying new clothes, or even clothes from the thrift shop, because I know after a couple of wearings (sometimes even just one) they will end up being stained too.
I feel like I've tried every stain remover out there, but I just am not doing something right. Ok I did find out one thing I wasn't doing right. I only recently found out that if the stain did not come out after being washed do not put it in the dryer as the heat will set the stain (yes I
just recently found this out - I told you laundry is not one of my stronger points). I do wash in cold water so at least there is that.
I heard about
Goop from Ann at
Its Always A Production and for the most part that seems to work pretty well; I've been impressed with it.
But what do you guys do when your child comes home and you see paint, or ink, or food, or what have you, on their shirt? What is the first thing you do? I can't always wash the shirt the same day because sometimes I've just done the laundry and I'm not going to put one piece of clothing in the washer...so what happens when you have nothing else to wash?
Here is an example. Last week Kayla went to school wearing this brand new shirt for the first time and this is how she came home (this was definitely one of her more messy days as it's usually not
that bad):
Blue marker, or paint, (I'm not sure which, and I don't think they use "washable" in their classroom - for preschoolers!) on one sleeve.
Pink on the other sleeve
On the other side of above sleeve was a nice big glob of ketchup:
so when she put that arm down the ketchup then spread to the side and back of her shirt:
(Maybe I need to find a kids smock to send to school and have them put it on her when she does artwork
and ask them to roll up her sleeves!)
I put Goop all over everything and let it sit in that. Before I washed it I also sprayed it with Oxy spray remover (or something). For the most part everything came out; except some faded blue on the one sleeve. I air dried it. I've put more Goop on it and am praying it will come out with a second washing; but I don't really have any other clothes to wash since it's just us and I just did the laundry, but I know I can't let it sit for days either!
I guess I'll continue to use the Goop, but once you're done laughing at my ineptitude to do laundry, do you have any other suggestions?
Kayla has to be one of the messiest kids I know when it comes to eating and doing artwork. She's pretty careless when she's holding a marker, paintbrush, or pen, not paying attention to when she's waving her arm around. So she tends to get a lot of marks on her shirts.
Couple that with a mother who very obviously doesn't seem to have laundry as a strong point, and you have a kid with some kind of stain on just about every shirt she owns.
Again, I'm beyond frustrated. It's hard to dress her every morning when I'm looking at faded stains throughout her wardrobe. I hate buying new clothes, or even clothes from the thrift shop, because I know after a couple of wearings (sometimes even just one) they will end up being stained too.
I feel like I've tried every stain remover out there, but I just am not doing something right. Ok I did find out one thing I wasn't doing right. I only recently found out that if the stain did not come out after being washed do not put it in the dryer as the heat will set the stain (yes I just recently found this out - I told you laundry is not one of my stronger points). I do wash in cold water so at least there is that.
I heard about Goop from Ann at Its Always A Production and for the most part that seems to work pretty well; I've been impressed with it.
But what do you guys do when your child comes home and you see paint, or ink, or food, or what have you, on their shirt? What is the first thing you do? I can't always wash the shirt the same day because sometimes I've just done the laundry and I'm not going to put one piece of clothing in the washer...so what happens when you have nothing else to wash?
Here is an example. Last week Kayla went to school wearing this brand new shirt for the first time and this is how she came home (this was definitely one of her more messy days as it's usually not that bad):
Blue marker, or paint, (I'm not sure which, and I don't think they use "washable" in their classroom - for preschoolers!) on one sleeve.
Pink on the other sleeve
On the other side of above sleeve was a nice big glob of ketchup:
so when she put that arm down the ketchup then spread to the side and back of her shirt:
(Maybe I need to find a kids smock to send to school and have them put it on her when she does artwork and ask them to roll up her sleeves!)
I put Goop all over everything and let it sit in that. Before I washed it I also sprayed it with Oxy spray remover (or something). For the most part everything came out; except some faded blue on the one sleeve. I air dried it. I've put more Goop on it and am praying it will come out with a second washing; but I don't really have any other clothes to wash since it's just us and I just did the laundry, but I know I can't let it sit for days either!
I guess I'll continue to use the Goop, but once you're done laughing at my ineptitude to do laundry, do you have any other suggestions?