How to Remove Clothing Messes & Stains

How to Remove Gum from Clothes: Granted, gum in the hair is a much bigger nightmare than gum on a shirt, or in someone's pants pocket, but it can be a pretty depressing prospect if it has had the benefit of a cycle in the dryer! Read more...

How to Remove Dried Blood from Clothing: Don't you just love it when there is a mountain of laundry, and out of the hamper comes a shirt, sports jersey, pajama top, etc. that someone has gotten blood on and forgotten to tell you? Stain removal can be a pain, but it's not all that hard. Read more...

How to Remove Ink Stains from Clothing: The days of fountain pens are likely what prompted the invention of the pocket liner. And while pocket liners are still used today, they're no guarantee that the pen-carrying person is not going to end up with ink stains on their clothing, either at work or home. Read more...

How to Remove Rust from Carpets and Clothes: Sometimes a little water spill on the carpet seems like a negligible thing, until you move the metal-based floor lamp, Christmas tree stand, or other metallic furniture, and discover that you now have a neat little rust mark where the water went. Read more...

How to Remove Grass Stains: If you have kids, you're going to have clothes with grass stains. And sometimes the worst ones are on the clothes worn by the "big" kids when they're gardening, or doing other outdoor chores. Read more...

How to Remove Popcorn Stains: Don't you just love the big tub of popcorn when you go to the movies? And isn't it fun when the movie gets to a particularly startling scene and whoever is holding the tub jerks their arms and you are showered with popcorn? Read more...

How to Remove Lipstick Stains from Clothes: For centuries, poets and men with an agenda, have been writing peons of praise to the loveliness of female lips. Most of them however, admired from afar and didn't have to deal with the lipstick of today. Read more...

How to Remove Sharpie Stains: The fact that many inks would run and eventually fade, was very frustrating. Then in 1964, along came the Sharpie, one of the first "permanent" ink markers, designed primarily for writing on glossy surfaces. Read more...

How to Remove Stitches: Removing one or two stitches in a garment is not a difficult chore, but getting whole seams out so that you can take a blouse apart to use for a pattern, or to alter the length/width of a skirt can be more challenging. Read more...

How to Remove Car Paint From Suede Shoes: We're not at all confident that you can get it off, but here are some methods that have reportedly worked for other people. Read more...

How to Remove Crayon From Clothing When It's Been in the Dryer: Kids are so much fun. There isn't a parent alive, who hasn't a crayon image of themselves, the house or the family pets, stuck to the fridge with magnets. Read more...