Mouldy

[igenlode]

I was annoyed (and discommoded) to discover that my entire stack of spare teatowels turned out to have what I assume to be mould stains on them where they had been stacked against the external wall. I put them through a two-hour boil wash with a scoop of expensive stain remover (the former quite possibly negating the latter, on second thoughts), on the grounds that they would at least end up sterilised even if still stained, and it does seem to have more or less shifted the marks on almost all of them. I suppose I shall have to find somewhere else to keep the clean but unused ones, now that I no longer have a suitable drawer for storage :-(

I'm rather assuming that the remaining tea-towels, which have been sitting in the ironing pile against an internal wall for about six months, are not similarly afflicted... at any rate I seriously need to do some ironing for further sterilisation purposes. (I have already descended to simply using the crumpled but clean handkerchiefs straight out of the edges of the pile, having run out of ironed ones despite the dozens in my possession.)

Comments

[watervole]

I remember souvenir tea towels. I think there's a couple of those in our stash too.

[igenlode]

The advantage of tea-towels and mugs as souvenirs is that they actually get used on a daily basis (and gradually bite the dust).
As opposed to the kind that accumulate perpetually on the mantelpiece and never get looked at.