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I have been looking forward to Backwards Day. I have two questions:

1. How do you get sap (or maybe it is melted marshmallow) out of clothing. With my boys being active tree climbers I figure I am going to have this problem again. I pretreated it with regular stain stick and washed it and it is still there. I don't think the wash touched it at all. I obviously need to pretreat it with something else but I have no idea what will break it up.

2.I would love to hear how you organize your books. I don't like my current system ( non-fiction by broad subject and fiction all lumped together however) and want to do something different. We have so few bookcases that only about a third of my books are on shelves, the rest sit in boxes. But mostly it is how they are sorted I don't like, not necessarily how they are stored.

Look forward to all your great ideas.

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Posted by Amy

My last resort when dealing with a tough stain is to use color-safe bleach, and let the clothes soak in the washer for a while. It works most of the time.

Amy
http://amy-tinyblessings.blogspot.com

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Posted by 3rsandahug

You might try treating the sappy clothes with tea tree oil before washing.

And I can relate to the books issue - we have a ton of shelves and they're all full. One shelf has homeschool stuff, another all the non-fiction (organized by subject) and another has fiction sorted by author (and the paperbacks are stacked 2 deep on the shelves!)

Hope that's helpful.
Karen

P.S. I'm doing slow cooking on Thursdays because of our schedule - looking forward to seeing what you have tomorrow!

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Posted by Cindee

You need a solvent of some kind. WD-40 and Goof-Off are my solvents of choice. That's how I rescued a whole load of clothes that went through the dryer with CRAYONS!! ARRRGH! Anyway, just use a little bit of solvent on the sticky "stuff" and brush it around with a toothbrush or something. Rinse it out really well and then launder as usual. Good Luck!!

Cindee @ <a href="http://asfourme.blogspot.com">As For Me</a>

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