Breaking the Song Lyrics Theme

[ase]

Tonight's dinner is that super-sophisticated apple with celery sticks and peanut butter, served with this year's vintage vanilla soy milk. I call this inspirational cuisine "available, and not tomorrow's lunch." I'm also watching ST:DS9 DVDs borrowed from dad (at Christmas, whoops); apparently I saw more DS9 than I thought. Season Four is on tap next, and I already remember bits of the cliffhanger resolution! I think.

I'm moving into the unfortunate settling-in period where the drawbacks become evident: location cost inflation, living without a car in places that assume of course everyone has a car, and minor apartment irritations. Tonight's is the laundry, which has normal and permanent press settings, but no delicate setting. This is a problem, because half of my shirts are gentle/delicate cycle!

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Tonight, XKCD rocks on once more.

Comments

[loup_noir]

What, exactly, are we talking about here? If it's silk, sure. The dyes might run, though. You should probably handwash those a few times or wash with dark colors. If it's rayon...I haven't had great luck with rayon, but I also haven't tried in a long time. Handwash. Wools? Handwash. Linens also bleed dye. Don't use bleach anything with linen as it discolors. If you need to whiten linen, place it in the sunshine.

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One silk shirt (second-hand), and cotton shirts, including a couple extremely fragile-looking superthin shirts. Sheets and a couple pairs of corduroys that want a gentle cycle. Bleach is one of those things I didn't grow up with, so I look at it a bit askance. (Especially because I've seen what 10% does to previously-nice shirts. Look what a good biology lab teaches you!) Thanks for the suggestions!

[loup_noir]

Silk is really quite tough. If it's already second-hand, my guess is that the dye has bled as much as it's going to. You can wash it with stuff like towels or, really, anything. I recommend that you either dry it separately for a few minutes and yank it out of the dryer or you can line dry. Depending on how quickly you get it out of the dryer, you might not have to iron (I hate ironing.).

Cotton is probably more fragile. If you value these, I'd either wash them in cold with gentle items like sheets or handwash in the sink. You don't need special soap. Heck, all the soap is is a surface tension depressor, which you already know. You're selecting for smell as much as clean, so believe it or not, shampoo works just fine.

If you get a nasty grease stain, I suggest dish washing detergent. I've had the best luck with that sort of thing. It's formulated to lift grease off of pans, and it works just fine on clothing, but make sure to wash it quickly. I have had dishwashing soap fade colors.

ETA: Happy Birthday!