Advice No. 1: How to get stains out of white sheets?

[i-need-a-martini]

They are all my beautiful old vintage cotton and linen Italian sheets. And I want them crisp and perfectly white without yucky looking stains.

I have tried bleaching them and left them in the sun for days but still nothing.

(I am sure you can guess the stains I mean)

[thebraff]

Snipe - other than that, nothing useful to add to the thread.

[georgiajake2010]

Ok Braff - explain to me how sex stains can be yellow globs???

[thebraff]

Yes I have got something to say.

I  ALWAYS boil up the kettle and rinse out all the cups with the boiling water in hotel rooms.  I then empty the jug and boil up fresh water before I have a cuppa.

You have been given lots of advice re the stains, so there is nothing more from me in that area.

Good luck.

[thebraff]

Ok Braff - explain to me how sex stains can be yellow globs???

Georgia I think that the stain in question on a white surface would show as yellow as opposed to white.

Just guessing here by the way.

[georgiajake2010]

I have white sheets - I dont even see the stains until I wash the sheet and its flakey and white. I didnt mean any desprect but - yellow gobs!! That sounds suss

[cat_mioux]

Oh for goodness sakes!

Lets put the case of the yellow stains to bed for once and for all.

I believe the stains were monthlies. Obviously left for a day or two before being noticed perhaps. By the time the sheets were washed the stains had set in. Blood tends to do that. You are then left with a yellowish/brownish stain especially if the item has been washed in hot water. Cold water is preferred when dealing with stains of the red variety.

Ms Martini didn't say what kind of stains they were in Post 1. However, people started to cast judgements on Ms Martini's washing habits so she tried to make her story less about her lack of using industrial strength feminine products and more about her active sox life .. to deflect the judges.

We all know (and I can remember way back when) that the substance Ms Martini said was responsible for the stain does not leave yellow stains and comes out easily in the wash once you get around to washing the sheets.

We all knew what the stains were right at post 1. Didn't we?! 😉