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Household Hints & Help

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(34,195 posts) Wed Oct 24, 2012, 12:32 AM Oct 2012

Get your white socks white white again [View all]

I read this in the newspaper.
Boil your white socks with a few slices of lemon.
I don't recall how long it said.

Actually, it said it could return any color of clothing back to it's original color ~
but I don't see how that's possible.

But, hey ~ give it a try. Won't cost anything.

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Get your white socks white white again [View all] left-of-center2012 Oct 2012 OP

I think I'd run them through the washer first Duer 157099 Oct 2012 #1

I think I'd run them through the washer first left-of-center2012 Oct 2012 #6

Old-timey method, getting whites whiter. watrwefitinfor Oct 2012 #2

What great memories! NEOhiodemocrat Oct 2012 #3

So are you saying Curmudgeoness Oct 2012 #4

I really wasn't saying that it would whiten them - just that watrwefitinfor Oct 2012 #5

Loved reading your memories and, being from the rural South, I'm sure my grandmother japple Oct 2012 #7

Their probably is some truth to it. juajen Oct 2013 #10

back in the olden days I remember my ma using a thing called 'blueing' for her whites/laundry. Whisp Nov 2012 #8

Bluing in liquid form, should still be available. SoapBox Nov 2012 #9

My mom used bluing for the whites in the laundry! When I was very little, Nay Nov 2013 #12

Bleach and pay attention to the percentage... JCMach1 Oct 2013 #11