Dirty Talk

To Mum with the fish. Try running a load of rags or towels through it with 2/3 a cup of borax and about a cup of vinegar in the rinse water. Also if your washer has a lint trap, check it out to see whether there is a lot of lint in there which is staying damp and trap odor.

For the bonfire dog pee dilemma-- try a urine remover with enzymes, or a laundry detergent with enzymes (also called biological powder) --mixed with a bit of water, so it's like paste. Leave it overnight, then wet-vac it up (or blot it up with a lot of papertowels or old rags). Also, I've heard piling salt does well on fresh stains, for soaking up the liquid (let dry, then vacuum up the salt crumbles). Good luck. --I just found runny poo on our white carpet. ;o;

Getting ink out of clothes. Try clear rubbing alcohol. Have an old towel under the stained garment. Pour the alcohol on the ink and blot stain with clean rags or paper towels. You don't have to remove all of the ink by blotting; launder the garment when you are tired of blotting the ink stain. Use a stain remover over the alcohol before laundering.

Here's how I keep my kitchen clean and sanitary. I keep my wiping rags in a bleach water solution. I use a plastic margarine tub filled with water, a capful of bleach, and a tap of dish detergent. I keep my rags in there all the time. They are sanitized and ready to disinfect my counters. Best of all, they are always white! I usually throw away the old tub when I have a newer one empty. You recycle at the same time.