Confessions of a very tired old styler. Please join in.

kacie

jpscloud wrote: »

We were talking about housework at work once and one colleague said she was dying to get her curtains down to wash them as they'd already been up for a whole fortnight.

I didn't have the heart tell her that mine get washed every couple of years, whether they need it or not.

Oh and she meant the whole house. I just pick the dirtiest.

My "least OS/MSE" confession: I buy ice cubes! :eek:

People wash curtains!? I've been in this house 13 years and I may have dusted them a few times but never washed them!! :eek:

Mint1955

Phew I thought it was just me although I did wash them once years ago but that makes the pins holding them up go rusty so not doing that again!

orangesmartie

kacie wrote: »

People wash curtains!? I've been in this house 13 years and I may have dusted them a few times but never washed them!! :eek:

I'm glad you said that! My curtains have been up 6 years and i've never washed them either

Eenymeeny

orangesmartie wrote: »

I'm glad you said that! My curtains have been up 6 years and i've never washed them either

I was told by one of those posh ladies on a made-to measure curtains department that most curtains should never be washed. She advised 'giving them a good blow' on the washing line if you felt that they needed refreshing. Good enough for me
She quoted medieval tapestries as an example of items lasting longer by not being washed...

LV_Sue

My late mother-in-law not only washed her net curtains every fortnight, she changed them twice a year! She had a summer set and a winter set. When I first knew her, back in the 1960s, she used to change her curtains twice a year as well! :eek: Nobody did that in my family cos we only had one set for each window!;)
How the other half live eh?:rotfl:

Any

All my curtains say "dry clean only"???
I sometimes wish I could just put them into a washing machine.. but paying £x for dry cleaning when they weren't that expensive to start off with seems like really stupid idea to me, I will rather buy new ones!

Any

Though net curtains in my mother's house (that generation) are washed couple of times a year... all windows polished from the inside and all cupboards cleaned out and re-lined with new wall paper off cuts!!

(one of the reasons I don't have net curtains, apart from fashion, I would have no excuse not washing them!!)

Molly41

Eenymeeny wrote: »

I was told by one of those posh ladies on a made-to measure curtains department that most curtains should never be washed. She advised 'giving them a good blow' on the washing line if you felt that they needed refreshing. Good enough for me
She quoted medieval tapestries as an example of items lasting longer by not being washed...

Yes I do agree but only because I think the dust is the only thing holding my old curtains together and Im frightened they will disintegrate if taken down and washed:eek:

Maitane

Any wrote: »

All my curtains say "dry clean only"???
I sometimes wish I could just put them into a washing machine.. but paying £x for dry cleaning when they weren't that expensive to start off with seems like really stupid idea to me, I will rather buy new ones!

There's something you can get where you put a packet into the tumble drier and it acts like a mini dry cleaner. I've used one from Lakeland to do Mr Maitane's suits a long while ago when I used to make sure he was the best dressed solicitor in court

Any

Maitane wrote: »

There's something you can get where you put a packet into the tumble drier and it acts like a mini dry cleaner. I've used one from Lakeland to do Mr Maitane's suits a long while ago when I used to make sure he was the best dressed solicitor in court

yeah, but I think you need the tumble drier for it to work...:rotfl: