We had a major crayon mishap this past week...and it wasn't even from the kids! Trevor had left a red crayon thingy in his work pants and it melted in our dryer ALL OVER our clothes. Now, we are both to blame for this...him for leaving the crayon in his pocket (I didn't know contractors use crayons, but apparently they do), and me for not checking his pockets and throwing his work pants in with our normal clothes since I was in a rush. So, I forgave him, especially when I found this magic concoction that took they crayon out of almost everything...
- 2 max doses of liquid detergent
- 1/2 lid of liquid Oxyclean
- 1/4 cup of Borax
- 1/2 cup of liquid Shout
- 1/2 cup of Vinegar
You put all of the liquids where the detergent normally goes (we have a front loader), and I put the Borax in the drum since it was a powder. Then you wash on the Heavy Duty Cycle on Hot. After doing this 2 times...everything except the whites were back to normal. And we had REALLY bad crayon marks on everything. Raleigh said it looked like our clothes were bleeding.
To clean the dryer, I tried a Magic Eraser but it didn't work very well. So, we used WD-40 and it cleaned everything except the back part is permanently stained.
Whoevery concocted this is a genius because I didn't want to use the WD-40 on the clothes since it is so stinky. Oh, and if you clean the dryer with WD-40, put a wet towel with some dryer sheets and run it on high a few times (thanks mom!). This gets the smell out of the dryer.
I HAD to pass this one on!
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Haha of course they use crayons.....but just on their breaks with their sesame street coloring books haha
That is a good thing to know! I will have to write down that concoction....I know it will happen to me one day hehe
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