Go Figure!

This afternoon I was going to write all of you to say that I got the mold out of Aspen's favorite shirt (and by Aspen's I mean mine!).

I was super excited when I woke up this morning to find that soaking the entire garment overnight in Tilex Mold & Mildew Remover had removed the stain entirely. Not to mention most of the color but that is one detail that didn't bother me so much. It was still pink-ish and that would do.

To say I was giddy would be an understatement. I felt like I had just completed a marathon or at the very least discovered a little laundry secret - one I would whittle away and expose on blog and impress all the other bloggers with my Ninja like laundry skills. Mwahahahaha, I thought to myself. But, that would have to wait until the kiddos went to bed.

In the meantime like any good housewife I knew that chemical soaked shirt would need a few hundred good washing before touching my babies skin. I figured I would wash it once by itself and then with each load of laundry this week I would just keep tossing it in.

Anyway, the first wash and dry was a success. The shirt was spotless. But, it stunk like my shower after the Nanny gets a hold of it. So, the next load included a pair of jeans. I didn't think much of it. That is until the load was done and I was removing the clothes and happened on the infamous shirt.

THE.STAINS.WERE.BACK.

Except this time they were not black specks they were larger circles a light bluish color.

Please do not think for one second I just sit around wasting water for no good reason. Before coming to the Internet for help I went to the store because surely a new shirt would be the simplest of all solutions. Except when I got to the store the shirts were on clearance and only a 3-6 month size remained on the rack. It was a sad realization that the brown, pink and cream striped pants were never to be worn again, after all, the browns, pinks and creams of other stores would never match.

So, Internet, I turned to you and Bleach was all you offered.

Bleach does not reside in my house.

Nor does Tilex Mold & Mildew Remover.

But, desperate times called for desperate measures.

Do you want to know why those chemicals are forbidden in my house (aside from my daughter's proneness to licking all things liquid)?

Because, I ruin things.

Things like that nice purple shirt I was wearing while simple removing the Tilex from the bag where the Tilex decided to leak.

So now I have nothing to show for all my hard work except two ruined shirts when I only started out with one.

Go figure.