Apologies for being MIA for months and months. I promise, I will be back in the near future to finish revisiting The Bell Jar with you and hopefully moving on to another great novel. In the meantime, I wanted to post a quick, fun, yet useful, tidbit.
Have you ever gotten a stain on your shirt and thought, well now, how on earth am I going go get that out? Well, look no further. I have been there. While walking my dog today, I tried to do a good deed. I picked up a McDonald’s wrapper that was lying in our neighborhood park parking lot to throw away. Unbeknownst to me, the wrapper had a package of honey dipping sauce with it. I ended up slopping honey all over one of the gloves I was wearing. As soon as I got back home, I grabbed a handy little pamphlet I inherited from my Grandma, entitled Housecleaning Hints. It has tons of useful information right at your pre-internet fingertips on how to keep your entire house, including drapes, davenport/sofa fabrics, and apparel clean.
The closest thing to getting honey out on this list is to soak it in boiling water (fruit stains). I used very hot water, and crossed my fingers. For other trouble shooting ideas on stains, give this a gander:
This particular book was put out by Procter & Gamble in 1931. American companies in the early to mid-20th century were known for giving out free publications as a way to corner more of their share of the market. The General Foods Cooperation did it with Jell-O. Calumet and Clabber Girl baking powders had their own free cookbooks. And, have you ever noticed that General Mills always insists you use Gold Medal All-Purpose Flour or Swans Down Cake Flour in every Betty Crocker baking recipe? It’s a not so clever way to make more money.
Procter & Gamble is quite the conglomerate of businesses these days. While items such as Chipso Flakes and Star Washing Powder have long since landed in the graveyard of bygone products, Procter & Gamble’s modern portfolio ranges from Pringles to Mr. Clean to Gain to Tide to Crest toothpaste, not to mention 17 other big names. They really are a force in the American logo landscape.
Tidbits and Timemachines 