Everyone loves a good party! Minus the host when it comes time to clean everything up the next day...or in my case over the next month! My birthday was back at the end of June and my friends and I decided to throw a huge party! It was uh-mazing! We had a killer sound and light system (thanks Matt), spiked gummy bears, glow in the dark and black light body paints, and one heck of a party juice! At one point we were jump roping with glow stick "ropes", at another we were going crazy to Cotton Eyed Joe, and before the night was over we had been to the pool and back! All of my new neighbors came out and celebrated with us and I found out that my floor at Maddy Manor is where it's at! The next day was followed by our traditional post drinking cracker barrel breakfast and then I was off to finish cleaning up my home. I have to give my guests props because no one knocked over any cups or spilled their drinks...however, they weren't so good about wiping off their cups after filling it with juice and I found little red droplets all over my living room. I tried traditional carpet cleaner, oxy-clean, vinegar, baking soda, a steam cleaner, a shampooer...nothing got the stains out. I had all but given up hope of ever having a clean floor again when I found this post Freckle Face Girl. It only took the spot test for me to fall completely in love with this method of getting stubborn spots out of carpet!
What You Need:
-Ammonia
-Water
-Spray Bottle
-Iron w/ Steam Setting
-White Towels (white bar towels work great and they are cheap)
What You Do:
-Mix 1 part ammonia with 1 part water in the spray bottle
-Turn on iron and let it heat until it begins to steam
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| Saturate the stain in the ammonia solution |
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| Cover the area with a white towel and iron for 20 seconds |
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| The stain absorbs into the towel and when you lift it.... |
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| The stain is gone...the steam makes it look bleached here |
Be careful not to breath in the steam when you are doing this and make sure no one walks over the area for a few minutes as the carpet gets extremely hot!
Now, that’s a literal ‘party poop.’ :) Would you believe that my mom was so scared of that that she even had our carpet removed on the first party I threw at our house? It really sounds funny, but we were clueless about these kinds of carpet magic before. And I’m not sayin’ dates though. Haha!
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