Hand Washing

Today I am thankful that we do not have to hand wash all of our clothes. I am quite certain that I would wear stinky clothes for far to long if I had to wash them by hand.
A few weeks ago my mom and I both bought Silver jeans. I wore mine a couple of times (a few hours each), and each time I got a faint sniff moth ball scent- but never enough for me to connect the dots.  When I did the trusty "smell test" to see if I should wash them, I discovered the smell was from my jeans. After my initial "anger" over them being brand new and smelling- I figured once through the wash and a few of the worlds best smelling dryer sheets would fix the issue.
NEGATIVE! They still smelled, and once I knew it was them of course the smell was stronger. So I tried two or three more times, different soaps, different cycles- no luck. Now 3 weeks later, I was starting to get annoyed...thankfully they are capris and it hasn't exactly been capri weather round these parts recently...or I may have lost it much earlier in the process.
So tonight I started googling how to remove moth ball smell from clothes. A LOT of sites said... there is no hope.
After reading many "remedies" I settled on one. Currently, this is what my jeans look like...

The steps called for a series of soaks and rinses through vinegar and then ending with a "gentle detergent" and it said a "wool rinse" was even better.  Well dontchaknow, I just bought some eucalan for blocking my knitting projects- and it smells wonderful. So currently my jeans are soaking in the eucalan, and I am crossing my fingers that the moth smell has left the building...or at least my jeans. 

Thankfully, the receipt was located, and if this does not work I will be taking them back-, no tags, rinsed in vinegar and all it's glory.

All that to be said, that in the rinsing and wringing and everything else I just did...I am thankful for my washing machine, and I don't fault all the medieval and otherwise stinky centuries one bit. 

On a another note... 

Tonight I had an epic failure turned ugly, but delicious, Easter sugar cookies- that will likely be the topic of an upcoming post. 

I also discovered a delicious new yogurt...or as they say "yoghurt" 

After all, it does say that it is the "finest" right there on the container. 

A bit pricey, but has two servings and is rather fine, possibly even the finest yoghurt I have ever had....then again I usually eat yogurt- so I don't have anything to compare it to...yet.