Sadly there is still staining, but maybe I can still find a way to get that out. Finding your article was a balm! There were more gobs of ground-in putty than I could count, but the sanitizer totally neutralized it and I could scrape it right off. Why did it have to be one of the only beautiful things we owned?! (I do try to keep the right perspective on “things” but raising kids is messy and depleting, and those covers represented a little piece of beauty in my otherwise ugly home…) I wasn’t about to put WD40 on it I’ve tried washing out putty before (don’t bother) and ice doesn’t do a THING!!! I felt so discouraged. It was an innocent accident – in fact my daughter had been trying to write a sweet message to her daddy and me on her bed rail with silly putty and it slipped off during the night! – but I still had to leave the room to have a little cry. Well, last night I discovered one of the duvets had silly putty ALL OVER it, on both sides, and particularly on the white part.
The price shot up 6× as much a day or 2 after I ordered them! I even had a relative collect the package from our house when it was delivered so it couldn’t be stolen the covers were only $15 but felt “priceless” to me! I was beyond thrilled to finally give my children something they could feel proud of when friends came over, since most everything else we own is shabby. A couple years ago I happened across an amazing deal ($5/ea) on 3 brand new duvet covers that were beautiful, and a perfectly unique design for my daughters.
We can’t afford much of anything new, so almost everything we own is used, hand-me-down, cheap, broken/chipped/stained/ripped…and frankly, just plain ugly.