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Thistle

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So today was the first time I have truly regretted my trouser choice. I was 5 minutes from being out the door, when DD1 launches herself at DH and his coffee sloshes out of his cup and onto my pants. It was warm, not hot, but here's hoping stain stick is a miracle worker.

Any of you suffer a similar wardrobe malfunction?

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Latest reply was from AviaMariah

Glory

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Oh dear sorry to read that. Adds mountains of stress on a very hectic time of day!

donnat

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Sorry your day started out so bad.... how did it progress? I hope it got better.

Joy

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Thistle, I'm sorry and hope the stain comes out. I've had more wardrobe damage from my dogs than my children but it happens.

Word Lily

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Ugh, annoying! Glad you weren't burned, at least. Hope your day was uphill from the spill.

Angie

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What colour were your pants?

Thistle

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They were white.

Angie

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OOOOHHHHH.

*sad face*

Suz

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Oops! That is not fun at all.

Are you okay? That's the main thing.

If the trousers are cotton you might be able to bleach.

I've had similar malfunctions at times, yup. This summer I seem to have had more staining than usual. Luckily in most cases I noticed in time to change. But I realized only after I returned from my trip that I was walking around with ketchup (or similar) stains on the back of my white shorts for at least a day....

Jaime

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Only self inflicted :-)! Good luck with the stain removal.

Thistle

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Oh Suz, that's awful!

Yeah, at least I was able to change. Had a couple of important meetings, so it could have been worse.

Anonymous

Of course they were white pants! This kind of thing only happens when one wears white. The joke around my house is I seem to always be wearing a white t-shirt when serving something with a tomato based sauce - and there is a clock ticking on how long it will take me to splash on it. If you can't laugh ........you cry. Onward we go

Karie

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Been there, done that. White pants and chocolate. White pants and coffee. White pants and...

Deborah

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Oh Thistle I am sorry! Hope the clean up! These type of mishaps do lessen as kids get older;).

Sara L.

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Glad you were able to change and hopefully bleach will fix the pants. I've been thrown up on when 5 min from the door. Not fun!

anne

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What a pain! Yes, in my life it has certainly happened! One big reason why I dress after breakfast and change as soon as I get home.

Maneera

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Similar story to Suz. I wore my white jeans for a movie, and I guess someone who sat on that seat before me dropped ketchup on it. Anyways, you can't see all that much in the dark, so I sat on it the entire length of MI5. When I got off the car at home, my husband told me that the back of my thighs were stained. And what a stubborn stain!!!

I tried 3 kinds of stain removers but they didn't work. Finally I soaked overnight in fabric whitener and then line dried my pants in bright sun. The stain remover didn't lighten the stains, but strong sunlight is a great bleaching agent! The stain lightened a bit....and then I did the same thing again....and now it's barely noticeable.

So wash your pants, and put them to dry in the strongest sunlight, with the stain facing the sun. Hope it helps!

Iron Ethel Flint

I've got kids so of course the same thing has happened to me. I hope your pants are okay, but I'm guessing they probably are since you were able to take care of them right away! It's amazing what even a damp washcloth can do if you get to stains before they set.

Theodora

Oh no! You poor thing! TIDE stick. It works! I carry one with me everywhere, as I wear a lot of white, and seem to always get food droppings and stains, tee hee. I actually had on a brand new pair of white jeans, cut my finger, and got blood all over the front of them before I noticed. Tide pen to the rescue! Unbelievable how well it works.
(This message was not sponsored in any form by Tide, or Proctor &Gamble)

Theodora

Btw, I meant it actually takes out the stains right then, not having to wait to get home.

Colette

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That is a bummer! I have experienced this on white jeans and successfully got rid of the stain. Flush the stain with hydrogen peroxide, let it sit for a while and the soak in double strength OXY overnight. Good luck!

lyn67

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Try some hydrogen peroxide on the stain!

celia

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I hope you didn't burn yourself.
I have no idea how to take coffee stains from white pants once they are settled.With coffee or tea it really helps if you immediately rinse it with hot water.

KikiG

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I have Biz, and I have Oxyclean. Sometimes I soak all day in one, wash, and then put the item back in a bucket of the other. Also: sunlight. I have had good luck generally getting coffee out. I had very bad luck getting out dye from color saturated photocopy paper, folded and left in my son's back pocket of his much loved white levis. I finally resorted to bleach, which not only didn't work on the stain, it ate the pants.

shoppingisfun

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That sucks! I don't wear white pants, simply because I don't understand how anyone manages to keep them white for any length of time.

AviaMariah

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I wore white pants yesterday and our 4 month old puppy could not keep his paws off me! I just figure if I'm wearing white they're probably not going to remain pristine. And there's no way they ever get worn twice without a wash! If you have trouble with the stain I've found that one part baking soda, one part dawn detergent and 2 parts hydrogen peroxide will get out almost anything. Just let it sit on the stain for an hour or so.