Too Little For Me Shop & The Ladies Room

Ironing Tips

Be sure to set the iron to the correct temperature for the fabric that you are ironing (check the label first). Iron corduroy and wool inside out to prevent crushing the corduroy or making the wool look shiny. Steam can help release wrinkles as you iron, especially in cotton and linen.

Smoky Household/Car

When there is a smoker in the house or one who frequently rides in your vehicle with you. The items that you bring in might smell smoky. To avoid this, prepare your items just before bringing them in for inspection. Or if you found that you've had them in the car for a few days - hang them outside in fresh air for a few hours. This will also help with any wrinkles that has formed while sitting in your car.

Have Pets At Home?

Pet hair can get on everything - and most pet lovers overlook it because it is such a part of their lives. Even the cleanest household that has a shedding lab or long haired cat is plagued by pet hair. Freshly washed items can still have pet hair on them because it stays in the washing machine. Sometimes it just takes being set in the car where the cat or dog sits to reappear. Even though light colored hair is easily noticeable on darker clothing and vice versa, please take the time to use a lint brush (or masking tape) to remove pet hair from your freshly laundered clothes prior to bringing them in.

Remember, the better your items look, the faster they will sell and the more money you will make!

Getting out those darn stains!

The following suggestions have been submitted by clients & customers throughout the years. When trying something new, be sure to check for color-fastness first. Email us your tips.

• Turn your largest stove burner on to a medium heat. (Do not bring to a boil!) Take a large "canning" pot or a large soup pot and fill it with water. Slice a few lemons and add the slices to the water. Add the garment and let it soak in the lemon water for 30 minutes To an hour. Occasionally - take a long wooden spoon and stir the garment around in the water. Stains should disappear. If not complete gone - return it to the water for a few more minutes. This works great on white socks! Removes mud stains well! You can even bring the water to a boil for the socks. NOTE: Do not let the water boil down or evaporate. If it does, add additional water.
• Wet your fabric with warm water make a light paste with warm water and corn starch, apply a thin film over the stain let set for 30 minutes. Put in washing machine with laundry detergent preferably Tide with bleach for all colors and fabrics.
• Mix a solution of WHITE vinegar and baking soda to make a paste. Rub into stain ( I use an old toothbrush to scrub it in). Let sit for a few hours. Reapply the paste mixture right before laundering. Also add about 1/2 cup WHITE vinegar to the wash. Your clothes will NOT come out smelling like vinegar, so don't worry. This also takes out any underarm odors that seem to remain in some clothes. HINT: adding white vinegar to rinse cycle works as a fabric softener too.
• My solution to armpit stains is a cheap bottle of shampoo for oily hair. The cheaper the better. Store brands seem to work the best. Pour an ample amount on the stain work in well and allow to sit for a couple of hours or overnight. DO NOT ALLOW TO DRY. Wash as usual. Old stains may require more than one treatment. This also works on those nasty collar rings too.
• Mix 1 cup of powder automatic dishwasher detergent, 1 cup of Clorox II all fabric bleach and 1 cup of laundry detergent in a large bucket of water hot enough to dissolve the detergents. Soak clothing overnight or for several hours then wash as usual. Yeah no more formula stain.
• Apply BabyMagic Baby bath to stain. Rub in and let soak as long as needed. Then wash as usual.
• I just take the juice straight from a lemon and rub it into the stain. Then I lay or hang the garment in the sun and the stain disappears like magic!
• Spray stain with oven cleaner then let set 15 minutes and wash as usual. For really white cottons add 1 Tbsp dishwasher detergent to wash. This works for any kind of stain even grass and oils and grease as well as baby stains. It even works on the knees of those white little league pants!!! and it will not harm the fabric. I have used on polyester and nylon too.
• After washing clothes, I found a ball point pen in washer. Then dried clothes & found ink stains on jeans & shirt. I put hair spray on ink stains, while hair spray was wet loaded jeans & shirt into washer, the stain came out. Any hair spray will work, liquid, aerosol, etc.

All clothing items should be hung on hangers for us to look through. You may use wire hangers. Pants & skirts may be simply folded over the hangers.

WASH 

IRON

ON HANGERS

Remember, the better your items look, the faster they will sell and the more money you will make!