Diy Starch For Ironing, Etc Diy Staples

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  1. Marie Mallery

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    It is as simple as corn starch and warm water, I'll let you know how it works when I try it.
     
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    I have not owned a can of spray starch for 50 years, since the days that I had to iron my husband's khakis and fatigues into properly stiff and creased "correctness". I do not miss that chore.
     
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    Mary I agree about ironing but some blouses just have to be ironed and I have one of those.
     
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    In Vietnam, the mama-sans at head camp would use rice water for starch.
    They’d boil down the rice into a goo and then add more water to it and bingo, starch.

    I can’t say that it smelled particularly good especially when sweat is added but it did what it was supposed to do.

    Now that I think about it, my grandmother might have used cornstarch or something she had to add water to.
    She’d sprinkle an article of clothing and then roll it up and let it sit for a couple of hours. After that she’d do the ironing.
    Heck, I remember her taking an iron off of the stove to iron clothes.
     
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    Ironing??? Oh... no. :p
     
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    Thanks Bob I'll keep that in mind in case we run out of corn starch.
     
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    Iron is a four letter word. :D
     
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    Not if it only happens every few years and just a couple blouses.:)
     
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