Whether you are generous and have the means to spend a lot, shopping constantly and replacing clothes and goods can sometimes make you hesitate, especially when they are still usable with just a stain or an unwanted scratch. Because if you can handle those stains, your belongings will look like new again. Saving the cost of your purchases to the maximum is essential, so preserving clothes and accessories including shoes, handbags… to be used as long as possible and avoid being stuck with hard-to-remove stains is incredibly important.
So make sure you remember the following tips to easily handle when your personal items are stained or scratched instead of having to dispose of them and buy new ones.
1. For fabric shoes, clean them by rubbing them with beeswax and then use a hair dryer to dry them.
2. When wearing a shirt with buttons, instead of buttoning them up, turn the shirt and button them up from the inside.
3. Place a sock or a nylon bag on the top of the vacuum cleaner nozzle to find small objects such as earrings.
4. Use a hair straightener to iron your collar.
5. You can dry wet clothes more gently with a spinning basket and drying vegetables.
6. To remove stains from deodorant on clothes, rub with denim. Experiment with a small piece of denim to see if it changes color or not.
7. To remove red wine stains on clothes, soak a piece of fabric in white wine and gently dab it on the stained area.
8. To remove yellow stains caused by sweat on white shirts, squeeze lemon juice on the stained area before washing.
9. Spray stockings with hairspray to prevent them from running, snagging, or scratching over a long stretch.
10. To remove grease stains from suede, use the crust of stale bread and rub it on the stain.
11. Use hanger tags to know the clothing sets you never wear. Initially, hang them all in one direction and every time you take out something to wear, when you hang it back in the closet, hang it in the opposite direction from the beginning. After a year, the clothes that are still hanging in the same direction as the beginning means that you have never touched them so you can sell them.
12. Make your t-shirt soft by soaking them in saltwater (1 liter of water and ½ cup of salt) for 3 days. Then wash normally.
13. Fix a stuck zipper by rubbing the graphite end of a pencil on the teeth of the zipper.
14. Eliminate odors on your clothes with a solution of 1 glass of vodka mixed with 2 glasses of water.
15. If your handbag is stained with oil, sprinkle baby powder on it and leave it overnight. By the next morning, the stain will disappear.
16. To prevent fur clothing (rabbit fur, sheepskin) from shedding hair, place them in a plastic bag and put them in the refrigerator for at least 3 hours.
17. Brush the matted fur area for fur coats with a sea sponge stone.
18. To prevent jeans from fading, add ½ cup of white vinegar to the final rinse water during the drying process of clothes.
19. To soften stiff shoes or shoes with a stiff tip, wear socks and then put on the shoes, then use a hair dryer to dry the shoes you are wearing.
20. A pair of pants will fit you if its waist fits your neck.
21. For scratched leather bags, take a cotton swab dipped in moisturizing cream and roll it on the scratch until it disappears.
22. If you want to try the size of a bra to see if it fits you or not, place 2 fingers under the bra strap, if it doesn’t fit, the bra is too small for you.
23. A pair of pants will fit you if its waist fits your neck.
24. Put neatly folded clothes into a laundry bag to prevent them from wrinkling when you store them in a suitcase.
