Instead of buying pricey wrinkle releaser, when the fabric softener bottle is almost empty fill it half way with clear water, shake and pour into a spray bottle. It works exactly the same was as the $4.00+ per bottle stuff in the stores. Use it for freshening clothes that don't quite yet need to be laundered or for quick wrinkle treatment. Works great!
If my clothes are clean but wrinkled, I just mist plain ole water on them (via a spray bottle) and give 'em a good shake/smoothing over. The wrinkles disappear just as they would with the fabric softener mixture (which I only use on clothing that could stand a little freshening up before wearing).
Also you need to be careful and make sure you put enough water in it and mix it up good before you spray it because if you don't it could stain your clothes.
This sounds like a great idea and it came just in time. I have a meeting tomorrow morning and no time to iron. I have one big concern though. Water without preservatives will get moldy over time. That's why you get mold in moist environments and indoor fountains develop scum. The small amount of fabric softener mixed into the water will most likely not be enough to prevent mold, or bacteria for that matter.
The best solution (no pun intended) is probably to make small batches as needed, i.e. only what you can use in a week. I would be very hesitant to spray my clothes with the mixture beyond that. You can be spraying mold spores, etc onto your clothes.
And no, covering the spray bottle doesn't help because mold spores are present everywhere in the air. When you screw the top on, you're trapping spores that were present in the bottle. You can prove this to yourself by putting tap water into a jar and then covering it. Watch it day after day and in a few weeks, you'll see mold, etc growing inside the jar. And no, the chlorine in the water is not powerful enough to kill mold.
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Tip: Frugal Wrinkle Releaser (05/19/2009)
Instead of buying a bottle of Downy wrinkle releaser, get a spray bottle and put about one ounce of liquid fabric softener in it, then fill the rest of the spray bottle with water.
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Instead of buying a bottle of Downy wrinkle releaser, get a spray bottle and put about one ounce of liquid fabric softener in it, then fill the rest of the spray bottle with water. Shake up the spray bottle to mix the softener and the water. This mixture when sprayed on any fabric except silk or suede will release wrinkles. The added benefit is that bugs do not like fabric softener.
