Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Commonhouse bathroom towel query

[Beverly Jones Redekop (beverly.jones.redekop]

Leave them on the clothesline for a week in summer.  Sunshine takes out all
stains: I used this technique for years on cloth diapers.
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          Beverly Jones Redekop

    beverly.jones.redekop [at] gmail.com

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On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 11:34 AM, Lynn Nadeau / Maraiah <welcome [at] 
olympus.net
> wrote:

>
> Sharon asks how we keep kitchen dish towels white. Chlorine bleach
> (yuck) is the most effective, and from time to time I bite the bullet
> and put all the supposed-to-be-white dishrags, dishcloths, etc into a
> hot bleachy load. Less toxic, and somewhat effective, are the Oxyclean
> type of bleaches. I dump some in each wash load. And like I said, I
> hide the flour sack dish cloths in a bin on the clean dish cart, so
> they aren't handy when someone wants to wipe up the stove or other
> greasy thing. Going with a color, as another noted, is another out.
>
> Maraiah Lynn at RoseWind, Port Townsend WA
> www.rosewind.com
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