Our bathroom gets pretty steamy.
No. Not like that.
It's actual steam from the hot water.
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Get your mind out of the gutter.
We don’t have a window in the bathroom to let the steam escape, so it can take all day for our towels to dry. If it’s a humid day, the towels can have a real hard time drying out.
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This is a problem for the towels, especially if you have the sense of smell like I do. I can smell things long before anyone else does, which is both a blessing and a curse. You can imagine how disgusted I was to discover our towels were smelling like mildew when they did not dry quickly. Not exactly what you want to smell first thing in the morning after a shower.
The towels are really nice ones we received as a wedding gift. They are also washed every week, so I wasn’t OK with just buying new towels. I figured that someone else out there had to have this same problem and hopefully a solution.
After consulting the interwebs, I found some information on how to get rid of the mildew smell:
- Put your towels in the washing machine, using the hottest water available. Add one or two cups of white vinegar. Do not add detergent, fabric softener, or any other products at this time. Run the washer.
- Leave the towels in the washer and wash the same load again just as you would normally with laundry soap. Again, use the hottest water available. Don't use fabric softener or any other products.
- Dry the load in the dryer using a high-heat setting. Towels should be thoroughly dry when you pull them out. If they're not dry, put them back in or move them immediately outside and hang them in the sunlight.
Courtesy of LifeHacker.
Anyone else out there have some good home remedies for humid areas or DIY cleaning solutions?
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