Out, Out Damn Spot!

This is not an info-mercial, but it sounds like it could be.

George came home and announced a minor disaster had occurred.  Somehow, during the course of the day at the office, his pen leaked ink all over the front of his favorite yellow and white striped shirt.  There was a very deep blue spot, quite large at the bottom of the pocket and several smaller dots of ink lower down.

After trying all the usual remedys for ink of various sorts (it was one of those gel pens), and reading every article about stain removal in every book in the house that might contain such information, old or new,  the spot was still a deep permanent-seeming beacon of blueness.  It didn’t look like it had faded much although many many blue spots through a thick white cleaning towel belied that impression.

The shirt was lost….

Then, because there was nothing else to do, I thought "Why don’t I soak it in Biz".  Biz works for many things ( i have no association with this company whatsoever).  I use it every week to soak the sheets before I wash them.  I have white sheets that are 10 years old that are still as white as the driven snow and still in good shape (unlike chlorine bleach which destroys the fabric over time and doesn’t just eat the dull prespiration stains the way Biz does).  I used Biz to get old stains out of my grandmothers’s tablecloths many many years ago, and find it will still get a lot of old stains out as long as you are willing to use a goodly amount of biz and let it soak for plenty of time.

Biz says nothing about ink and I was not convinced it would work  But I made a concentrate of Biz in a bucket and put the shirt in overnight.  By morning, the ink was significantly lighter on the shirt, a shadow of its former self really and the soapy water had a definite blue tinge.  Another bucket of biz and another few hours soaking and the shirt was as new, no ink, no ring-around-the collar, a perfect shirt.

Thank you Biz.  Why did I never think of this before?  I have to go out of my way to buy Biz as most stores around me don’t carry it.  I buy multiple boxes at a time because I have not found anything else that keeps the sheets as nice of that gets miscellaneous impossible stains out of tablecloths.