A Highlighter in the Dryer

[psophia17]

DH hid a highlighter he'd taken away from DS in a stack of whites. I ran the load, and moved the whole shebang from the washer to the dryer, and now have flourescent orange spotted whites, and lots of them.

Can I get the spots out somehow? HELP!!!

[mamato1]

Yowza! How about oxiclean??
Chris

Mama to Brendan (aka Boomer) 01/04


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[tarabenet]

"Talking Dirty Laundry with the Queen of Clean" recommends the following:
* Spot Shot
* rubbing alcohol or denatured alcohol(much stronger -- test it first)
* acetone (again, test it first)
* white, nongel toothpaste rubbed firmly and vigorously
* soak in milk (now that one sounds right up your alley!)
* turpentine, followed up with dishwashing liquid before laundering
* Energine cleaning fluid

Hope one of them helps!

[psophia17]

Yikes, I'm thinking a trip to Costco to buy all new t-shirts and socks for DH is in order...

I haven't risked white socks for DS yet, and he's okay with spotted drawers ;)

[tarabenet]

LOL! Petra, you don't have to use all of those remedies! Just pick one to try. Or not. You are too funny! If I send you some stuff, will you wash it the same way, so I can get all-new too? :P

[mamato1]

Maybe you can start a new fad and before you know it we will all be wearing spotted drawers. :)

Chris

Mama to Brendan (aka Boomer) 01/04


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[AddiesMom]

I use Zout on the spots and let it sit for a while, I have had good luck with it. They just came out with a new spray that I bought at Target today.

On Friday I accidentally ran my brand new cell phone in the washer. How do you get water out of the screen? lol

[chlobo]

My DD drew on the carpet with dry erase marker and I used apple cider vinegar & baking soda to get it out. Worked great.

[psophia17]

Only if it's whites...;)

Seriously, though, can you imagine spending the amount of time needed to get flourescent orange stains out of 14 pairs of white socks and 7 white t-shirts using any method that involved locating all of the spots and *gasp* rubbing???

Oh the horror!

[psophia17]

Ooh!

That sounds like something I could try by just putting vinegar and baking soda in the wash with the load of orange spots...much better than rubbing any day :)