I’m sure all of you know about this................

Aspirins. Not paracetamol ?! Nice tip though

I find that my tumble dryer takes care of any rogue tissue accidents.

Didn’t know this so thanks for the tips,

What a good idea. No matter how careful you are to check pockets, sometimes a rogue tissue hides in a sleeve. I'll try to remember this for next time ...

Lexisgranny Thank you for your useful tip, never heard of it before.

Thank you for this tip! My OH is the worst offender......never me ??? and getting rid of the lint is a nightmare!

Thank you. I'm forever doing this with tissues.
I wonder how / why it works?

I love a good tip thread!

Thanks for the tip Lexisgranny I have a couple of black t-shirts in my ironing basket waiting to be de-tissued after an oversight when washing.

Lucca no idea why aspirins! I put 5 in because we happened to have a strip of 5 left.

In the past I have used a tumble dryer for tissues that had somehow got through my pre wash search, (generally when someone had thrown a garment in at the last minute without checking), but this was a booklet of many pages, far beyond any damage from tissues. My trousers and a cotton mix sweater looked whitish grey rather than black, and apart from all the bits of paper there was a sort of white bloom covering them.

What agreat tip Lexisgranny.
Another one is if your iron has scorch marks on the plate,put it on high heat and rub paracetamol on it using tweezers,it really does work.

That's very interesting! I suppose they should be soluble aspirin - like Disprin? Or does it matter? Anyone know the chemistry behind this - Googled it briefly but no explanation apart from the fact it seems to work.

Wonder if it's to do with the fact that aspirin is acetylsalicylic acid and it might speed up the process of dissolving the paper fibres? Maybe white vinegar would have the same effect? I'm no chemist though just guessing. Thanks for the tip, I'm always leaving tissues in pockets.

Great tip!

I must remember this tip - I am guilty of forgetting tissues up sleeves (mine!)

Great tip - thank you!

A good blow on a windy day also helps. I did the very same thing the other day, left a tissue in my joggers and everything had white bitson it. After being outside on the line in the wind most of it had gone and a quick brush with the clothes brush dealt with any remaining particles. Soooo annoying when it happens!!!!

Interesting, but it must waste a lot of energy, putting clean clothes back through another cycle.

Brilliant tip thank you. Mr Nobody is apparently the culprit in our house along with eating the kast sweetue ?

wow, I have to go buy some aspirin, just in case, I only have paracetomol..

you asked the question I was going to ask Lucca..

Oooer Aspirin thanks for that tip, if it ever happens to me I will certainly use that one

I just told my husband about this post/tip, because I was impressed. He came up with one of his corny jokes -“ I suppose it relieves the headache of picking all the bits of!!!!”

Bicarbonate of soda works too, apparently.

travelasfar it was really the white ‘bloom’ that was the problem. I think the loose bits would have come off in either tumble dryer or on line, but I could see no way out for the rest, it was beyond sellotape or lint rollers. Have just put aspirins on my shopping list for next week, the 5 I used were left over from the time when it was deemed not a good idea to take one aspirin each day, so they were quite elderly.

Oooo never heard of that one!! Thank you. My son comes over to use my washing machine and not only receipts, tissues and bits of I don't know what are left behind but ... screws, bank cards and ... (more so now) face masks!!! Any tips for those other than a clip round the ear (I jest)!!!??