Out of commission...

Funny, how are irons have become so important to us. During a fall cleaning tirade, I scorched my living room curtains. Unnoticeable to the naked eye, thankfully, but enough to 'bugger up' my iron.(My back-up is officially dead.) My 3M scouring pad wasn't touching it, so I sent DD to JoAnns for a Rowenta sole plate cleaning kit, on sale for $10.49. (Very highly rated, I might add...)
Ah, Nope. Out of stock....
AHA! Amazon Prime, me thinks. Genius!
$9.72 with tax and FREE delivery. WOOHOO!
The last two orders with my Amazon Prime were here in LESS THAN 24 HOURS. Crazy, right?
I'll be back in action in no time at all!

What would Mr. Clean Magic Eraser do? Cleaned up a mess my DGD did on mine because she thought it was okay to press PLASTIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Those cleaning kits do work well! They also carry them at Bed Bath and Beyond and you can use a 20% coupon. A dryer sheet also works well for some things. I always keep one on my ironing board.

I never heard of the fabric softener sheet tip. I'll have to try that one. I got some gunk on my iron a few months ago and for some strange reason I thought about my mom teaching me to iron years ago. My mother loved to iron. Believe me, I didn't inherit the "ironing" gene from her! Anyway, I remember my mom used to sprinkle the ironables with water and put in a plastic bag and put in the frig until ironing time. Does anyone else remember that? I digress...my mom always had a box of salt at the ironing board and when the iron would start sticking she would sprinkle salt on the ironing board and move the hot iron around on the salt. It would remove the gunk. I gave it a shot and it sure did work! Now I have my salt shaker at the ironing board. Also a great way to reduce my salt intake!

Hugs!
Debbie

I'm just still shocked that someone presses their curtains too!

Hope it works for you. I have heard of the salt trick before - it didn't work for me....

I recently found this website and Love all tips!!! I really want to try the make your own scents and of course most of the easy cleaning ones hahaha

For your iron Clean Your Iron the Magic Way

I have been debating whether to get amazon prime...i think you just convinced me! I order from them about 10 times a year, so I think it would pay for itself in saved shipping fees.

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Originally Posted by grandmasieg

I never heard of the fabric softener sheet tip. I'll have to try that one. I got some gunk on my iron a few months ago and for some strange reason I thought about my mom teaching me to iron years ago. My mother loved to iron. Believe me, I didn't inherit the "ironing" gene from her! Anyway, I remember my mom used to sprinkle the ironables with water and put in a plastic bag and put in the frig until ironing time. Does anyone else remember that? I digress...my mom always had a box of salt at the ironing board and when the iron would start sticking she would sprinkle salt on the ironing board and move the hot iron around on the salt. It would remove the gunk. I gave it a shot and it sure did work! Now I have my salt shaker at the ironing board. Also a great way to reduce my salt intake!

Hugs!
Debbie

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I remember that! My grandmother would mix some liquid starch in the water that she used to sprinkle the clothes. One time she stored the leftover mix in a glass milk bottle in the frig. When she couldn't find it the next day, she asked my grandfather about it. He told her that he thought the milk tasted a little different!

They also had a sprinkler head with cork on the bottom that fit into a pop bottle. My mother must have had a dozen of those.

I've used the Rowenta kits, they work fairly well, but I need something for spots you normally can't get to. Like the cutouts on the side of the iron for buttons, and the indents around some of the vents. Rubbing the iron on a cloth doesn't reach those. Mine is usually iron on like stitch witchery or steam a seam.

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I have been debating whether to get amazon prime...i think you just convinced me! I order from them about 10 times a year, so I think it would pay for itself in saved shipping fees.

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Heck yea, Gayle! It's awesome. I probably will do all my Christmas shopping from my kitchen counter, this year. Especially great for hard to find items. I looked all over for a specific trike for GD. Finally thought to look on Amazon. I ordered it at 3pm, and it was at my door by noon the next day! I don't have a Kindle (yet) but my daughter tells me that with Prime, it's like getting Net Flix for free. Free movies, TV shows and books. She's even rented a $200 text book for college for the semester for $50!
It' more than paid for itself.
The beauty of it? The account is actually under my daughter's name, but I am able to load my debit card info, no questions asked. So we actually share the account. ;)

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Originally Posted by grandmasieg

I never heard of the fabric softener sheet tip. I'll have to try that one. I got some gunk on my iron a few months ago and for some strange reason I thought about my mom teaching me to iron years ago. My mother loved to iron. Believe me, I didn't inherit the "ironing" gene from her! Anyway, I remember my mom used to sprinkle the ironables with water and put in a plastic bag and put in the frig until ironing time. Does anyone else remember that? I digress...my mom always had a box of salt at the ironing board and when the iron would start sticking she would sprinkle salt on the ironing board and move the hot iron around on the salt. It would remove the gunk. I gave it a shot and it sure did work! Now I have my salt shaker at the ironing board. Also a great way to reduce my salt intake!

Hugs!
Debbie

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I do remember that !! Put a sprinkler top in a pop (soda) bottle and sprinkled away...on clothes that just came in from the clothesline. Does that date us just a bit ?!! LOL

Mom used to keep a yellow plastic bottle in the frig that had holes in the top. I think she mixed starch with the water. This was before the steam iron came along. I guess the cold water/starch helped the process somehow. I learned to iron Dad's hankerchiefs....

I have a collection of the old irons that one put on a wood stove to heat. Boy, am I glad we don't have to use those anymore!

Lightwriter, I like your quote at the bottom of your page..very true.

I am also dating myself...lots of ironing experience in my past and I still iron lots of my clothes. Love cotton and it needs some pressing. That bag of sprinkled clothes in the old frigerator is very much a part of my growing up. Haven't seen one of those old sprinkler heads in years. Will have to look at my mom's for her old one.