I came home from church yesterday and felt very sleepy, so I took a nap. A three hour nap. The second day after not getting enough sleep is usually my sleepy day. I guess that was really true in this case. Saturday I thought I was fine. I slept for about an hour and a half when I got home and thought it was enough. But I was really out of it.
Which brings us to the “Lies” part. I didn’t clean out my truck on Saturday. I didn’t do anything productive at all. I was embarrassed to say so because I hadn’t done a Lenten Chore on Friday either. But yesterday was different. I got a few things done, so I feel like I should come clean about Saturday.
Which brings us to the “Washing Machine” part. I dyed the couch samples in the washing machine. I thought I had cleaned it out very well. Even so, “Darks should go first,” I said, “then lights, then whites.” That way, if there was any dye residue, it wouldn’t show as well on colored clothing. Well wouldn’t ya know, there was some dye there still when the whites went through. And now they’re all pinks. ALL my whites. (It’s been a long time since I did laundry.) I have now bleached them three times with progressively larger, more insane amounts of bleach. They are a lighter pink, but they’re still pink. RIT sells a dye remover. I’m hoping that might work better than the bleach did.
Yesterday’s Lenten Chore: Clean and straighten the dining room.
I almost busted a gut laughing at this. What a great story! I’d like to mock you thoroughly and say that liars always get theirs in the end, but being a liar myself it would bite me in the tushie.
PLEASE save a pink shirt to make a pillow for your couch!
I hear pink is the new chocolate brown. Don’t be afraid to wear it! I’m sure you have ties that will match.
I’m just reminded of that time that Mom went away to some conference and Dad turned all our socks and underwear pink by washing a red shirt in with the whites…
Embrace the Dadness!!
Do they sell white dye?
Of course then your machine would have white residue, & your darks would be white & then you’d have to dye them back & so on & so on … and it will never end!!! I guess you’ll have to get a new washing machine, after the couch is dyed of course.
Isn’t white dye sold under the common name, “bleach”?
Well, one year I dyed my Easter eggs white, they were very pretty …
Hey Brad,
Well, you’re not the first one to do something like this!
I assume you’ve already dried them so there really isn’t that much to do. There are a couple a tricks that might help a little if you’re lucky.
One way would be to wash out the stains in a couple of liters of cold water with 1/2 cup of white vinegar and 1 teaspoon of liquid detergent.
You can also try washing miscolored clothing in powdered dishwasher soap. It sometimes will take out what other detergents leave behind.
If all else fails, do what you did with the sofa, dye them a more desirable colour!
Good Luck!!! 🙂
Well Erin, aren’t you Little Miss Suzy Homemaker! I’m impressed. I’m taking notes!
Well, it comes from much experience of screwing things up and being too poor to replace them!!! Good to know I can pass some info along! 🙂
I believe the term is ‘Becky Home-ecky’.
I dyed a wedding dress purple in college, and when I tried bleaching it back it turned orange!
Erin, this is PRECISELY what we JUST started learning about in our Life Skills class here at BLMS – laundry and stain removal tricks! Brad could have just asked his friendly, local 7th grader…However, in lieu of that, vinegar and uniodized salt plus detergent works purty doggone well, I must say. Too bad this load looks more like overcooked pickled pigs feet IMHO (Dad was a butcher – I know my pickled pigs feet, by cracky!!) “Note to self: bring in a box of Shout color catch pads tomorrow for Brad’s future loads.”