pturo
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It was an amazingling bright and sunny but cool day in Upstate NY, high of only 49 degrees, but the sun was warm and constant, with Spring just flirting with us like a first time hooker, unsure of her new territory but seductive just the same.
So, I decided to take my huge king size comforter to the local laundrymat and spend the 3 bucks to put it in the high capacity machine with a home made detergent of 65% Borax and 35% shaved Fels Naptha(I shaved it in the food processor and mixed it with the Mule Team Borax)
Well the damn thing came out really clean and bright, so I took it home (screw the dryers in that place for 25 cents for like 7 minutes) and I put in on my backyard clothesline for 6 good hours in the sun and cool breeze. It smells FANTASTIC! The whole bedroom smells like sun, ozone and spring. I would recommend this proceedure to anyone. Make it a ritual, The Spring Commerical Washing and Airing of the Sacred Wintertime Comforter Holiday is April 2nd!
It smells so sexy you might just have to wash it again, if you get my drift.
Everyone knows that a comforter dried in the sun with south breezes smells a lot better than one baked in a commerical Maytag, and "use six pins, not five, Dolores " is the rule in windy Spring weather.
I am just saying, even if you are a dryer advocate, send your things outside ocassionally to dry, it's amazing how they smell. Thats my story and I am sticking with it.
So, I decided to take my huge king size comforter to the local laundrymat and spend the 3 bucks to put it in the high capacity machine with a home made detergent of 65% Borax and 35% shaved Fels Naptha(I shaved it in the food processor and mixed it with the Mule Team Borax)
Well the damn thing came out really clean and bright, so I took it home (screw the dryers in that place for 25 cents for like 7 minutes) and I put in on my backyard clothesline for 6 good hours in the sun and cool breeze. It smells FANTASTIC! The whole bedroom smells like sun, ozone and spring. I would recommend this proceedure to anyone. Make it a ritual, The Spring Commerical Washing and Airing of the Sacred Wintertime Comforter Holiday is April 2nd!
It smells so sexy you might just have to wash it again, if you get my drift.
Everyone knows that a comforter dried in the sun with south breezes smells a lot better than one baked in a commerical Maytag, and "use six pins, not five, Dolores " is the rule in windy Spring weather.
I am just saying, even if you are a dryer advocate, send your things outside ocassionally to dry, it's amazing how they smell. Thats my story and I am sticking with it.
