Lemon Juice

From day one, Alexis has been a baby that spits up often. No, a lot. No, frequently. No, ALL. THE. TIME. My dad even nicknamed her Bounty (because he feels like he needs a paper towel anytime he picks her up).

And, while I sometimes wonder if her body will ever really figure out how to keep the food in, or if she'll be this toddler running around with mom right behind still wiping up all of the spit up (which, by then, I'm sure you'd have to start referring to it as throw up, gross), I have to say, it hasn't really bothered me that much.

Until recently.

Now that she's a full fledged baby-food-eating machine, her spit up is no longer just a quick wipe of mom's milk. Now, it's usually some random color combination of her latest meal. And, because of this, I now spend WAY too much time trying to get out those stains (anything that takes longer than a quick squirt, soak and rinse is too much time in my book). Squirt, soak, rinse, squirt, soak, rinse, over and over and I still can't get these blasted stains out of her clothes! It's made me so frustrated that I have this pink onesie-turned-orange-down-the-entire-front (thank you carrots) that I've considered throwing it away. No donation, no save the environment and try to reuse it some how, but throw it away.

Until now.

I've been so bothered about this ridiculous amount of time I've been spending, I mentioned it to my neighbor, Rachel. And, voila! She told me to try a squirt (or a capful) of lemon juice on the stain and to let it soak in the sun. She said, while she didn't know to trust it on anything, she did know it'd work on color or white clothing.

So, I took my cute pink onesie-turned-orange-down-the-entire-front stain for a lemon juice soak and sunshine and poof! Pink onesie is cute and pink again! No bleach marks, no stain!

Next step, a bulk purchase of lemon juice.

Any other good stain removing tricks you know about?