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Old 10-26-2006, 10:41 AM
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Default Re: Laundry: frugality vs hygiene

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Originally Posted by tinapbeana
no offense meant, but white sheets from yard sales are just as sanitary as new when you take them home and wash them in hot water with bleach. there are other yard sale items (e.g. stuffed animals, shoes) that are not nearly so easy to sanitize.
I think it was less the idea of sanitary-ness than the visual picture of sleeping in sheets where some stranger had rolled around, sweated, had sex, cat threw up, kid wet the bed, etc.
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