I have a helpful hint to post today. You know sometimes, when you have a stain that you really can't call a carpet company for or even your Mom to ask for help in getting up? I'm not necessarily talking about blood but yeah, this stain was in fact red and not something that the "victim" could call on her family for help, so I will just say this: the solution involved two i-phones, the internet, google, scorching heat, peroxide, a shovel, a bag of lime and a map.... well, maybe not the shovel, bag of lime or the map but here's what I'm talking about and it happened to a very dear friend of mine:
HYDROGEN PEROXIDE TO THE RESCUE
BAD, BAD, BAD thawed frozen (formerly) strawberries. Stained carpet about the size of a kumquat. Not really. It was about the size of a Swedish meatball. No, not really. It was the size of deck of cards.
Used a clean dry cloth to blot the offending strawberry juice until I could blot no more. Then poured hydrogen peroxide over the stain. Once the bubbling stopped I poured more, and then once again. Do not blot this. Then I poured a small amount of boiling water over the area. Again, do not blot this. Let that cool. In the meantime, fire up your iron. Please make sure you have a safe surface to place the iron on. You don’t want to burn your carpet. after the water cools, place a clean dry cloth over the stain and start ironing. It will steam like crazy. I folded the cloth in half and kept on ironing. Looking occasionally to behold with wondrous eyes that the stain was disappearing. AND none of the stain was being transferred to the cloth I was ironing. It is gone. I am sure this process diffused the stain and sent it south down to the concrete, but hey…do I care?
I had the iron on the COTTON setting.
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