Yesterday I played hooky from work. After a string of cloudy and rainy days, the sun broke through. Besides, it was my mother's last day in town. During most of her visit I worked so late we didn't spend much time together.

What a great day. Catching the early morning sale at Macy's and then heading over to the beach to walk along the Broadwalk and have some lunch. There are benefits to being the "southernmost Allergy Store" and hanging out at the beach in the middle of  December is one of them.

On the way back from the beach, we decided it was high time to get a Christmas tree for the Krause House.. We stopped by the stand that sells fresh trees from North Carolina and found a beautiful specimen.  I just love that douglas fir smell!

After the first scene of the Laurel and Hardy show which featured Mike and I getting the 9' tree off the top of the Jeep Wrangler, it was time for act two....getting it in the door.   The finale was finally getting the tree in the stand upright (well OK maybe it leans a little). After all the mauling of the fresh tree I realized that my khaki clam digger pants were covered in black sticky pine tar/sap.   Now those are almost my favorite pair of pants and I was heart broken that they were possibly ruined. If you have ever gotten pine tar on you, you know what I am talking about.  That stuff just doesn't come out!

I thought, this is a job for OxyBoost stain remover. Mike (ever the doubter) said "Won't work, stain is just too bad". I said, "Hey pine sap is organic and OxyBoost kicks butt on organic stains."

So, off came the clam diggers and into the sink with hot water and 1/2 scoop OxyBoost. I then heated a small bowl of water (about 2 cups) in the microwave for 2 minutes and added it to the sink with the other half of the OxyBoost scoop.  WOW that stain remover went to work right away. Since the active ingredient is sodium percarbonate, it began to foam as it worked the stain out of the fabric.

After about 20 minutes of soaking, I lifted the pants out to see if I need to scrub the spots and they were all gone!  All the dullness in the khaki was gone also.  Those pants were clean.

I gathered up enough dirty laundry to make a load and ran the pants through the washer and dryer and they are as good as new.  Now, if I could only get the pine sap out of my hair and off my arms and legs.

Til Next Time!

Cheryl
The Allergy Store