Tip on de-stinking from a second-hand shopper and former library lady
Tip on de-stinking from a second-hand shopper and former library lady
Lisa 🦔 (@mycrowgirl@flipping.rocks)
If you need a no-water option for any secondhand item that can’t be washed, like cashmere or books* etc:
Take a plastic bin with a lid that’s several times larger than the stinky thing. Sprinkle some baking soda in the bottom.
Loosely crumple and ball individual sheets of non-glossy newspaper until it fills the bottom of the bin.
Place the stinky thing on top of the layer of crumpled newspaper, and add another loose layer on top and around it.
Close the bin and set it in a sunny spot.
Throughout the day give it a little gentle shake so the baking soda in the bottom gets stirred a bit.
It can take a few days, and you’ll have faster success if you take it out in the evening and let it air outside then use fresh newspaper and baking soda in the bin when you put it in the sun again the next day.
*For books: Lay them inside opened and change up which page it is opened to once in a while so the funk and humidity etc have an easier time escaping.
Nebenbei:
Beiguß.
DeepL translation:
I assume that pure alcohol (possibly also denatured as spirit) is also sufficient.
Ich vermute, dass es reiner Alkohol (gegebenenfalls auch vergällt als Spiritus) auch funktioniert.
Aber danke für den Tip!
Habe es bislang mal mit Brennspiritus probiert, da sorgt aber das Vergällungsmittel für einen Geruch in der Kleidung, mit dem ich die Stücke nur daheim, aber nicht unter Leuten tragen würde. Könnte aber sein, dass das ausreichend erträglich wird, wenn man die Kleidung danach noch ein paar Stunden draußen lüftet.
I have tried household ethanol, but the denaturant therin causes an odour in my clothes with which I would only wear them at home, but not when going out with people. But it could be that this becomes bearable if one airs the clothes outside for a few hours afterwards .