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mommy27
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 Fri, Jun 29 2007, 11:52 am
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A mirror fell off a wall and shattered into tiny pieces all over a couple of baskets of laundry. Does anyone have any practical ideas on how to get all the fragments off the clothes? I really would hate to throw out all those nice things!
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su7kids
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Fri, Jun 29 2007, 12:16 pm
Shake them outdoors?
put them in the dryer?
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happyone
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Fri, Jun 29 2007, 12:22 pm
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I would think that rewashing and drying would help. For extra measure I would probably do it twice.
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Fri, Jun 29 2007, 1:37 pm
Vacuum. If you put them as is in the washer, the water will just make the slivers cling tighter to the fabric, and some pieces will remain in the machine to be transferred to the next load.
Now--before you put any of those garments on your child--run your hand--HARD--all over the garment. Right--any remaining slivers will embed themselves in your hand. Afraid to do that? well, then you're not going to put that garment on your child, are you?
OK,OK, before you do that, take a very lightly damp sponge and run it all over the garment. Any slivers will hopefully stick to the sponge and show up as sparkly bits. Throw out the sponge. NOW run your hand over the garment. A damp sponge will pick up slivers on the surface but not anything that's really embedded in the fabric.
Or you can just throw out the garments, which is what I would do.
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purplegirl
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Sat, Jun 30 2007, 6:27 pm
Dry clean, perhaps?
Maybe it's my recent Russian ancestry, but THROW THEM OUT?  Anyone else think that's extreme?
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chen
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Sat, Jun 30 2007, 10:15 pm
| purplegirl wrote: | Dry clean, perhaps?
Maybe it's my recent Russian ancestry, but THROW THEM OUT? Anyone else think that's extreme? |
I don't think it's extreme at all. I think it's the most sensible course of action, and the only one that guarantees that they won't end up with a sliver of glass in a very inconvenient part of their anatomy.
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Mimisinger
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Sat, Jun 30 2007, 10:19 pm
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I would check every garment extremely thoroughly. I wouldn' through it out, but I would be very careful and cehck every part.
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