Keeping children’s clothes properly : What to do and what not to do

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While there might not be very expensive materials that are used in a child’s clothing, it is nevertheless important to make sure that whatever is the nature of their clothes, it is important to take care of them. The first and foremost step for this is to make sure that their clothes are cleaned and dried properly, since more than seventy per cent of all cloth-related problems are because of the fact that some stain always remains or that the cloth is not properly dried and still has moisture. Further, the storage of such kind of clothes creates further issues, since when there is not enough space among clothes and they are just stacked on top of each other, it always creates problems, since the moisture then gets transferred to other clothes as well. Having proper hanging organizers or hangers in their fabric wardrobes is the way one can counter this problem.

Moreover, there is also a very inherent habit of housekeepers, particularly women, of keeping children’s clothes in underbed storage cabinets. While this is a good choice in case you are short of storage space, it is very important that you ensure that once your child’s clothes are taken out in the season, they must be washed once again to make sure that there is proper hygiene for the coming time. Further, the material of the storage bag must also be chosen carefully, so as to keep clothes in the ideal condition. The best bet would be a duvet bag, since it permits clothes to breathe. Also, you might want to classify your child’s hangers as specific ones for shirts, shorts and so on, so as to make sure the almirah stays organized, and you don’t have a problem in finding the right dress for any occasion.

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Lint : The worst enemy, with a simple solution

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Very often, it so happens that we have a very important meeting or interview, and that is precisely when everything starts to fall apart. The toast burns, the dog won’t let go of your trousers, you find out that there has been an emergency power cut, and so on. While many of these situations seem o be out of hand and happen very infrequently, one of these happenings can be rued rather easily. That problem is lint.

Yes, we have all experienced it. As soon as we put on our favourite shirt for that perfect impression, we notice that there is lint at certain areas, and nothing can be more irritating, particularly if it’s a dress code kind of a thing or you had planned specially for the dress to look that way. This can happen most often in case of suits. When the perfect shirt does not match due to problems of lint, you need to have a solution at hand. A lint roller is a perfect answer to this.
Simply put, a lint roller is a one-sided adhesive paper roll available with a spindle and handle. To use, all you have to do is to roll it on the areas from where you need to remove lint, and the adhesive paper will attract all the pieces, thus leaving your shirt, or any other piece of clothing, spotless. Once the paper/roll has completed its work and needs to be changed, you can replace with another roll available as a separate piece in the same spindle. Animal owners are particularly familiar with this problem, and a lint roller makes for the perfect blessing in case you have a habit of hugging your pets goodbye, or have enthusiastic pets who always have a habit of staying close to you and hopping on to your lap whenever they get the opportunity. Further, lint rollers can also be a great way to remove other small attachments like dandruff flakes, etc. from your clothes. However, one major precaution to take care of is that you use the lint roller only on dry areas, since a wet portion of clothing can damage the adhesive coating on the roller.

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How to take care of animal hair

There would be quite a few of us who would be having pets at home, and where there are pets there is bound to be a certain degree of mess. While their traditional habits like knocking things around here and there can be controlled after they are accustomed to your home, there is one problem that continues to stay, and that is the problem that comes when they have a habit of always staying around you for affection. While their intention is always positive, they don’t realize what they are doing to your favorite clothes, i.e., their hair, that sticks on to almost everything you can think of. This becomes even more problematic when you are in a hurry and need to make it somewhere on time and suddenly find that there is animal hair all over your clothes. This applies to everything, from your favorite Gucci designer suit to the corduroy trousers you recently purchased, rest assured that nothing will be spared!
However, thanks to a few good men who did have the intelligence to know this kind of problem was coming, you might have a solution to the problem of animal lint, or so to speak of it. This is in the form of animal hair removers. Currently known by many names like fluff remover, roller brush, sticky roller brush, etc., these are some really handy tools that make sure that your favorite attire remains spot free and clean of animal hair. These are basically rolls of adhesive paper on a spindle with a handle that looks like a paint-brush, but is instead used for removing animal hair that gets accidentally stuck to clothes. It is used by rolling on the area where you want the hair to be removed from, with the hair sticking on to the foreign material and removing it safely from your clothes. Further, these rollers even work on sensitive and special material, and hence there is hardly any problem that you might face in using them on any kind of material. Yes, there is a problem if you use it on dresses with dangling ‘objects’, since the adhesive is quite strong on these rolls and often attaches anything that is slightly loose. Further, there are also animal stain removers available these days, that make sure any kind of spots created by animal activities are removed easily. Other variations of the pet hair removers include pet hair removal sponge, which kind of works in the same way, with the user having to rub it over the affected area to remove the hair.

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Storage bags : Something you’ll always need

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Clothes are a very important aspect of our personality, and hence, it is most imperative that one makes sure that they are taken care of properly. Every year, there is the same cycle of putting in old clothes and taking out the next season’s clothes. Besides a few instructions for winter clothes that always demand extra care while washing and storage (such as the use of sweater bags), there are a few standardized procedures one must follow before storing clothes in closets, almirahs, etc.

The first and foremost important point is to make sure you have properly washed them. Although this might seem like a very normal instruction, and you might say ‘what’s so special about this’, but the fact is that while day-to-day washing can allow you to be a little careless while the washing procedure is taking place, once you want to stack clothes in storage bags for 6-8 months, you better make sure that they are cleaned properly. For instance, in case of shirts, make sure the collars as well as the cuffs are absolutely dirt free. In case you want to be sure, you can also take external help by sending them to a laundry (yes, it is expensive, but necessary in case you are in doubt of your cleaning capability). This is mainly because just in case there are some stains left, they either would become so permanent by the time you take the clothes out the next time that you won’t be able to remove them, or they would weaken that specific portion so bad that even the slightest of wear and tear would do irreparable damage. Further, there’s also the fear of moths and other insects, that always seem to get attracted more to dirty clothes. Which reminds me, that you also need to put in anti-moth balls while storing clothes, besides keeping the storage area clean.

The last point is for the proper kind of storage bags; you must use particular bags meant for the purpose, like suit bags for suits, plastic bags would go with almost anything, duvet storage bags in case you want to allow the clothes to breathe a little, and so on. Further, there are also various underbed storage bags available these days, to make sure you get them particular to the way you want them to be stored.

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Organising things the way they should be

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Organizing is simply one of the most irritating activities one has to do, but also one of the most important if you want to save time when your are in a crunch. Here are a few important items you need o keep your wardrobe in place.

When it comes to organizing things, most of us are desirable to find an option to do the same, but are not really one of those ‘organizing types’, or that is what we at least think, it is a well recognized fact that staying organized always helps, and although it seems to be a tedious process, going for an organized approach in many aspects of life often saves a lot of time and is very convenient. And thanks to the numerous options we have in order to assist us in our endeavors in staying organized, it is not a very big ask any more. Following are methods to help you stay organized in various areas of day-to-day life, with a little help from fittings and fixture.

• Hanging rails are a very common sight mostly in almirahs and bathrooms, and tend to serve various purposes, albeit very small ones. They can serve to be a place to hang fresh towels/clothes, or their used counterparts as well, and in the insides of almirahs for the same purpose. Although we often tend to forget to install hanging rails in the required places, it always leads to better convenience and space saving.

• A hanging shoe organizer might not be the most common fitting at a house, but the main advantage it brings is the savings on space. Many times, we face the problem of unorganized shoe racks with shoes stacked on top of each other, which leads to the ones at the bottom getting stained badly and in some cases, also smell badly. With a hanging shoe organizer, this problem is automatically solved, as shoes are not placed at appropriate spacing, and not on top each other.

• Sweaters are the most unorganized for many of us almost all the time, and it always seems to be a real task to put them in place. Even if you do make it a point to organize your cabinet once a week/fortnight/month, it always seems to get as bad as it was before you know it, mainly due to the new additions you have to do frequently, and the indecisiveness regarding which combination to wear on which day. However, with a hanging sweater organizer, one can be sure of keeping them in proper order, since it gives you an ad-hoc storage place in case you are in a hurry and can’t properly stack sweaters properly.

• Kids always seem to put away all their things at all the wrong places, or misplace them more often than you can think. For the prevention of such kind of events to happen, an over door hanging organizer for kids is always the best option. It has plenty of pockets and lets kids store toys, toothbrushes and other small essentials that always seem to be misplaced when they are most needed.

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Put hemming to anything in minutes : Wundaweb comes to the rescue

Putting hems to almost any item is quite a task in itself, and more so if you are not the stitching types or need the stuff quickly. Here, a wundaweb tends to be most helpful, and allows you to attach hems to almost anything in under one minute.

Change is something that is constant in life, and the same applies to everything we have around us. For instance, many times you get a good job opportunity and need to migrate to another city, country, or home. Under such cases shifting your stuff is quite a task in itself, but when it comes to altering your fittings with specifications to your new home, that is where one gets really irritated, particularly when your job is a traveling one and you need to keep on traveling, staying at different places for 1-2 years. Even if it is a rented place (which is the most logical option, unless you are extremely well off financially), there are certain elements like curtains that might not always be present, and you might need to carry them. However, not all windows are alike, and hence, you might often have to be faced with a situation when you have purchased a curtain for 10 feet, whereas your new home has the same of just 8 feet. One option can be to buy new curtains, but if you are a person who can’t stay at a place for long, buying new curtains every year is not a wise option (although an expensive one!). The solution to all such problems is a wundaweb.

Simply put, a wundaweb is a soft nylon fleece that is feels like a gauze, and comes wrapped around a card for smaller lengths and in a roll kind of shape for longer lengths. It bonds the fabric together and is washable and dry cleanable. The main advantage of this wonderous invention is that it allows you to ‘create’ your own hems fast and easy, perfect if you are not really the stitching types (and even if you are, it does stay long enough to be of great help). Besides, it also saves you quite a substantial amount by not needing the piece of fabric to be given for stitching. Top use a wundaweb, all one needs to do is to create one’s own ‘hem’ and crease it by the means of a hot iron. Then, cut out the desired length of wundaweb and cover the folded hem completely with it, and place it on the area where you need the hem to be created. Then, take a damp cloth, place it on top of the wundawebbed hem, and place a hot iron over the same for around 10-12 seconds. Do not iron along the hem. Instead, just press it firmly on the cloth, and allow it to cool. Once the cooling is done properly, you may remove the cloth and find a proper hemming done on the curtain. However, sometimes it does happen that the web sticks to the bottom of the iron. In such cases, you must immediately take a dry cotton and wipe it clean, otherwise it would result in a sticky residue on the plate of your iron, and you run the risk of having the same on any of the clothes you iron hereon. Further, in oreder to again extend your curtain to fit longer lengths, all you need to do to break the bond is to place the damp cloth again, out a hot iron for 10 seconds, and just peel apart the fabric.

A wundaweb can also be used to put hems on other fabrics like jeans, skirts and dresses, and works on mostly all the fabrics, though velvet or pile fabrics are not preferred ones to use the same.

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Important items to make your daily kitchen chores easy

Kitchen is a part of the house that is easily one of the most important ones, and more so when there are guests over and you need to give your best food, or when your are in a hurry and need the required item in the least time. Here is a list of accessories to help you cook to your best without wasting even the slightest time.

Kitchen is a place where all of us, at some point of our life, need to spend quite a substantial amount of time. Be it a single father or a doting mother, a bachelor or a working class woman, almost everyone needs to do some activity or the other in the kitchen. Here are a few accessories that make working easier, and also lead to one getting things done is a much faster manner.

• There are often times when one goes out for a picnic, or needs to take lunch to office or send the kids with their lunch to school. And one of the most frequent concerns is health and hygiene of the food you have prepared while traveling. While the age old paper bags are a good way of keeping food hygienic, the freshness factor is always an issue. Further, if a paper bag slips out of hand and tears open, all the food items are gone, and you/your kids, would need to either purchase something if it is available, or go hungry the entire day. To solve this problem, anylock sealing packs are the best item to use. They are plastic bags that come with an anylock seal, which allows food to stay fresh as well as hygienic, not matter how you handle it. Further, there is also no worries of the sauce leaking out, since it is a plastic bag and the seal is very close to air tight.

• Baking food items in the oven is a quick and easy way of having your favourite items like pizza, cookies, baked potatoes, etc. easily at home. However, one issue that often concerns is the proper circulation of heat throughout the item, since putting the raw item like pizza in the oven with a baking tray tends to concentrate the heat on the base, which often leads to stickiness while you remove it after it is done. With a quickachips tray, you can easily cook fries, pizza and other items with the heat circulating properly, thus leading to even cooking in a shorter time without you scraping the food off later.

• Sandwiches are an all time favourite food item, but often need constant attention in the toaster, lest they get burnt. However, it is not always possible to keep staring at the toaster waiting for the sandwich to be done. Toastabags do the trick quite easily. Just place your sandwich in a toastabag, place it in the toaster, and the sandwich would automatically pop out when it’s done, and you would also find the same flavour intact (maybe even better). What’s more, you can also cook other items like chips, fish fingers, etc. with a few more pops. A smart and easy way of having your favourite items.

• Talk about a multipurpose kitchen accessory, and nothing fits the bill more than tea towels. Covering a variety of needs, a tea towel can be used to dry dishes, your precious china, and other items of cutlery, serve as a protector of liquids spilling on the tea tray, thanks to its absorbent qualities, and also used to cover scones or tea pots to prevent heat loss. All in all, a handy accessory that also looks good.

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Children hangers : A must have item for a wardrobe

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Handling and organizing children’s clothes is really a very difficult task, thanks to the sheer small size and the fact that we hardly pay any attention to their clothes, which leads to them being damaged over a period of time. Hence, having a separate hanger according to the size of your children’s clothes is a very important item to have in their wardrobe.

Taking proper care of one’s clothes is always a very difficult yet important task, and when the clothes are of children, the task becomes even harder. Chocolate stains, dust, ketchup, and so on, kids always seem to find new places to get themselves and their clothes dirty with, and one, as a parent, can not even scold them for being careless, because that is what they are meant to be, careless. Hence, it is extremely important that one takes proper care of a child’s clothes. Below are some points which may assist one in ensuring proper care:

• Always make it a point to educate children regarding the places they need to avoid in order to stay clean. Emphasise on the fact that cleanliness is very important for them. Once a child knows he should not get dirty, half of your problems are solved automatically.

• Children’s clothes are often made of special material that needs to be washed specifically as per the washing instructions. Hence, make sure that you read all the instructions before going for the final washing cycle. For instance, it is always better to wash whiter and lighter shades together, and separate from stronger colours which may have a tendency to bleed, so as to prevent the lighter clothes taking the former’s colour, spoiling the total appearance instantly.

• Make sure that once the wash cycle is completed, the clothes are dried before you iron them, otherwise it may lead to bad odour and damage to the fibres. Even if the clothes have been steam dried in the machine, it is always a better option to let them hang in the sun for around half an hour to let all the moisture escape.

• Proper storage of clothes is another aspect that is often neglected. However, it is as important as the washing itself. Make sure children’s clothes are stored in hangers meant specifically for such purposes.

• One more important point to take care of while purchasing a children’s clothes hanger is the fact that its material should be of good quality, rust-free(if it is made of steel) and sturdy, so that it does not snap open all of a sudden.

• Even though it is advisable to store all children’s clothes in hangers, it is not a practical option. Hence, it is most important to make sure one prioritises the kind of clothes that need to have hangers. For instance, children’s coats are one item that need hangers at all times, since there is no other alternative to hang them. Make sure you store similar clothing in the appropriate fashion without compromising on the cost factor, since it’s a one-time investment.

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Bobbles in clothes : Why they continue to happen, and how to prevent them?

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Very often, as the next season of winter sets in, and we take out all our clothing for the upcoming time, there are seen certain small ball-shaped things sticking on woolen clothes, which are actually made of the same material as our sweater/jacket or any other piece of clothing. These are known as bobbles, or clothing fuzz, and are technically the result of a process called piling, in which a strand of the fabric gets snapped off from the usual structure, as a result of the fabric rubbing among itself or against something else. With due course of time, surrounding fibres too get detached in a similar fashion, which results in all the loose strands intermingling to produce small balls, or bobbles, and the phenomenon soon spreads to different places all over the clothing. If you are lucky, then there might be a possibility that bobbles come only on the inside of the fabric. However, if they do on the outer surface, which is mostly the case, then you are really in for trouble, and it would take a good bobble remover or a clothing defuzzer to help you get rid of the same. For now, let’s take a look at the kind of clothing that encourages this phenomenon.

Piling occurs mostly in woolen clothes. But this does not mean that one should stop purchasing woolen clothes simply because they are the most likely to get it, and certainly does not mean that you should be hardly wearing woolen clothing outside of your home (What’s the point of buying it in the first place then!). This process is purely dependent on how closely knit the fabric is. For instance, woven fabric has a higher resistance to piling when compared to knitted fibres. Further, the type of yarn used also has an impact on this phenomenon, with clothes containing wool along with a bit of nylon providing better protection against piling. There are also clothes that come with an anti-piling coating.

However, if any of your old clothes has got bobbles, there are a few household tips to remove them. Holding a velcro strip and running it over the fabric, besides using a blade to shave off the excessive damaged fibres, are methods of the past, and often end up damaging the clothe as well. Fortunately, technology has given a solution to this problem in the form of clothing defuzzers, which suck up and detach the bobbles on practically any type of material clothing, and give you a piling-free apparel, without causing damage to the cloth.

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Shoes : An essential part of your wardrobe

A man is judged in the first impression by the way he looks, and looks mean everything, from the way you look physically, to your clothes, to the way you walk, and one of the most important, yet most ignored factors, shoes. Yes, it’s true, while there is a famous quotation signifying the importance of shoes, many of us rarely pay any attention to the fact that they are an important part of our personality, and instead go for preferring to give importance to our clothes more than the former, which often leads to embarrassing situations. For instance, if your clothes are of the latest fashion, but your shoes are either worn out or not up to date with your attire, you might as well be dressed in casuals, since the overall impression has been spoilt. Following are few tips to manage and care for your shoes in a better manner :

• Always regularly keep polishing your shoes, even when you are not using them regularly (and more so at that), since the leather tends to either lose its shine or gather fungus if it is unused for a long time.
  
• Keep your shoes properly stacked in a shoe rack, or preferably in a shoe organizer, in order to preserve long life and make sure they do not gather dust by placing them one over the other.
• If possible, try to use all the shoes in your rack at least once in two weeks to ensure they stay fresh and get sufficient amount of air.
• In case you have just taken the shoes out from the shoe box (fresh when you have purchased them, make sure that you give them sufficient air before you begin using them. This also applies to shoes you haven’t worn in a long time. Leaving them out in the open, preferably in the sun, resists any chance of fungus growing in them and also relieves them of any kind of smell.
• If your feet are smelling, make sure you wear socks every time you use your shoes.
• In case of ladies shoes, which often consist of a high number of heel-bearing footwear, it is all the more essential to have a well spaced out rack, and particularly the longer heels be placed vertically so as to keep the heels in perfect shape everyday.

So there you have it, these are a handful of tips you need to follow to maintain your footwear. While most of them might seem very simple to follow, the most important thing is to remember to do that regularly.

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Bathroom accessories : Important aspects that we ignore

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Often, we take many important aspects of our home for granted, and don’t realize the importance they hold in our lives. However, that does not negate the vital role they play in our day-to-day activities. Bathrooms are one such section of the house that needs proper attention, but is seldom given the same. How many of us remember the last time we considered revamping our bathroom with some new accessories over our bedroom or living room? I don’t think many would give a positive answer to this one, but nonetheless, since we spend at least half an hour every morning in this part of the house, and other family members do the same too, it is perhaps important to give some attention to it.

Lighting : There is a most important requirement of proper lighting in the bathroom, particularly near the mirror, since we spend time brushing our teeth and shaving over there, two activities that need the maximum light. An ideal arrangement is where there is a window adjacent to the mirror, so that there is plenty of natural light coming in as well. Further, appropriate number of bulbs/tubes, etc. need to be installed so as to give the maximum light.

Bath area : The bath area must first and foremost be kept clean, and should also suit your taste. For example, if you are not much of a shower fan, and prefer to have a bath tub installed instead and also have the resources to do so, then you must go ahead with the same, since it would help you bring a positive start to the day, by doing things how you want to.

Accessories : Now we come to another important aspect; accessories. These are small fixtures that even though are quiet ordinary to look at, yet their importance in a bathroom is vital. Following is a list.

Undersink cabinet : Placed under the wash basin, and under sink cabinet might not be the most pleasant addition to your bathroom, but is important nonetheless to store supplies such as toothpastes, soaps, cleaning liquids, etc., and since you would certainly not want sanitary equipment to be out in the open, an undersink cabinet serves the purpose quiet well.

Toilet roll holder : One needs to have a toilet roll holder to avoid inconvenience every morning of having to unroll manually and having the risk of the entire thing just slipping out of hand and covering the entire bathroom with toilet paper.

Towel rails/racks : It is most important to have a towel rack or holder. Not only is it elegant to look at, but also gives a defined place to keep towels for everybody. A freestanding towel rail can also solve the purpose.

So there you have it, a list of all the essential parts of your bathroom. There might be a few more but according to me, these are the ones that need the most primary attention.

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