Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Works For Me Wednesday: Shower Curtains

When we got married we received a beautiful cloth shower curtain, which meant we needed to use a shower liner. For five years, every time the liner got all moldy and gross, I'd just throw it away and get a new one.

A few months ago, a friend of mine told me that she uses a clear shower liner under her daughter's high chair to catch the food. When it gets dirty she just washes it. WHAT?!?! I had no idea!  I gave it whirl a few weeks ago. I had nothing to lose as a new liner is only $1. I washed our dirty shower liner with detergent and bleach and sure enough, it came out of the washing machine in one piece and clean!

This is one of those times when I wonder what other great tricks I've been missing all these years!

I'm sure you can find lots of them at Works For Me Wednesday.

9 Thoughts From Others:

maygan said...

I have no idea you could do that! I wonder if it works on hard water stains (the reason I toss our $1 liners).

Camille said...

Phew! I was certain I was posting about something EVERYONE else knew! :-) Ours get a nasty orangish gunk on the bottom. We don't have a water softener so I'm sure the hard water is leaving junk on them!

I washed it in hot water with a good cup of bleach and detergent.

Mama Melissa said...

in cold water?? i need to do this.

did you just put it back in the bathroom to dry? or in the dryer?

Camille said...

Nope, hot water. And I just hung it back up in the tub to dry!

Mama Melissa said...

cool! i'm going to go home and try it tonight. :)

melissa

Jodi said...

I do this! But I haven't been doing it for long! :) I sometimes add Oxyclean to the washer when I wash it and that seems to get the nasty junk off even better.

The Campbell Family said...

washing it with just vinegar cleans it too.

Jenny said...

I remember how shocked I was when I heard this the first time. It really does work!

Melinda said...

Thanks for this tip! Cleaning our shower curtain is one of my least favorite jobs...but washing it in the washer would make it so easy.

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