I’ve never heard of stain-resistant fabric, but that sounds ideal!
Every now and then on a sunny day, I wash all white sheets with an anti-yellowing washing powder, then let them dry in the sun. They’re perfectly white after that.
We don’t have a dryer, so we air-dry everthing. Sheets are very easy to air dry, because they’re pretty thin so they dry quickly. We try to dry outside when we can, but when we can’t, we have an indoor washing line on the landing upstairs. We’ve drilled a few holes high on the ceiling, above the doors, and put in screw-in hooks. We tied the washing line to those hooks and now we have two laundry lines indoors, high enough to dry sheets. When I was a kid, my mum had 5 or 6 laundry lines like that right across the whole attic.
I actually moved something out of the mending pile- and bonus points: it’s only been in it for a few weeks. Just a button of a dress shirt, but it’s done and back in wearable rotation.
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I managed to replace elastic in two pairs of pj pants!
After hitching up some summer camping pants every few steps during our vacation, I have added them to the “add elastic please” pile. Along with some camping bags that need new straps added.
We are the envy of our camping buddies with our custom made stuff bags. Packing the car is so easy and hauling stuff to our campsites is easier too. But they arenwearing out.
I need to fix Mr Imma’s work pants, it’s been in the mending pile for a few weeks and he needs it. He’s basically ripped the waistband because it was slightly too tight. Would have been much easier if he’d mentioned that earlier so I could have moved the button. Through the ripped fabric, I’ve put in a piece of iron-on interfacing right inside the waistband. Now I’m just going to stitch over it and hope it holds. Plus move that button of course.
When the weather allows, I dry everything but bath towels on the line (too crunchy for us!). Last week it was super hot and also very low humidity. I washed our guest bed sheets with many clothing items. When hanging them outside on the line, I hung the sheets first then the clothes; by the time I’d hung the last sock the sheets were 98% dry! Just the hems and the elastic casing on the fitted sheet were damp. At most 15 minutes. It
I find it fascinating to watch the seasonal drytimes change-- under an hour when it’s summer & super hot to practically all day in late fall just before it becomes useless to hang things outside.
It’s neat to see all the ways the seasons effect the minutia of our lives. The humidity hear is always quite low, unless it’s actually raining or just has , so even in winter we could probably dry things on the line - freeze dry! Spending my first 40 years in a damp place, I am still impressed with this.
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Nothing dries outside here…in fact, when I lived in Alabama, I used to hang my work tops outside to “steam iron” if they were wrinkled.
It is interesting…I think here it is more wind or sun dry because I do see lots of wash on lines when I drive around out of the city.
Yeah, we have a lot of the humidity which is also a factor, but it’s usually worth it to put things out in hot weather so long as things aren’t getting rained on.
In the winter here with the heater running the indoors gets dry enough I would resent losing the humidity to outside even if things would dry outside, so it’s drying racks & a diverter on the dryer.
Mostly maintaining by reoiling the rail on our lonnnnng fence, but also mending by adding a screw where the fencing contractor seemed to have missed one and I hadn’t noticed when I originally oiled the fence way back then.
Yay! I reworked 3 pairs of earring that were too heavy for my 57 yr old earlobes and ended up with 6 pairs. They all have large glass beads, which I love, but this made them too heavy in their original form.
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Thanks. They have just been sitting in a box gathering dust, which is silly. Now I have another checked off project on my list of not shopping for new - fixing what I have.
Grabbed the top item off my mend pile and finally started removing the flaking paint from my Grandmother’s hand mixer. I’ve been wanting a hand mixer and scolding myself that I have one it just isnt food safe!
Now, can I just use like the stuff for wooden cutting boards, or does it need painting?
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I would just use food save oil on them. The more you use it, it will darken and get more beautiful.
A thread came loose in a granny square afghan and it then spent months in the mending pile. Today I finally bit the bullet and was able to repair it. It took some time to figure it out but it’s not actually difficult. I used safety pins to pick up all the live stitches, then crocheted it all back together.
This reminds me that I have 2 afghans to mend like this and haven’t gotten my act together. I should pull them out tonight and have them ready for tomorrow’s “Sunday Mumday” (On Sundays I lie to myself that I get to do what I want and not just what everyone else needs lol. I wander around replying, “Sunday Mumday!” when anyone asks me to do something. I still feed them and stuff though, lol).
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, so even in winter we could probably dry things on the line - freeze dry! Spending my first 40 years in a damp place, I am still impressed with this.
