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Homemade Carpet Stain Remover…NO Scrubbing Needed! Saturday,

December 24, 2011 · 162 comments onegoodthingbyjillee.com

OK…I realize it’s Christmas Eve…and I really

should be posting something about food or parties or
family or…I don’t know…something FESTIVE! If
that’s what you were expecting to read about
today…my apologies. I’m just too excited about my
new carpet cleaning discovery that I simply HAD to
post this…TODAY. :-)

It started with this post about making your own

homemade version of “Shout” laundry stain
remover. A couple of people asked if they could use
it on their carpet stains too. I didn’t know the
answer to that because I’d never thought to try
it…but was definitely going to give it a go.

That was before this comment was posted by

Tammie:

Let me let you in on a little secret about me (ok it’s

homemade carpet stain cleaner
not really a
secret…maybe
a really
badly-kept
one!). I am a
naturally
CURIOUS,
IMPATIENT,
AND
OBSESSIVE
person (which
would explain
homemade carpet stain cleaner
a lot about my
choice of a career in TV news), and I simply can’t read something like that and not give it a try myself, immediately!
So….instead of finishing up the 101 things I still had to do before my Christmas Eve dinner party I was hosting in a
matter of hours….I was sitting on the floor with my steam iron, a bottle of ammonia and water and several white
towels!

(Don’t ask about the carpet color…it came with the house when we bought it. My best guess is that when the
builders of the house originally put the wall-to-wall berber carpet in…they were a smidge short and just grabbed
whatever was on sale in the remnant department of the carpeting store to finish up this basement bedroom.)

All I had to go on were the two lines written in that comment above….but honestly...that’s all you need to know. I
filled an empty spray bottle with 1 part ammonia & 1 part HOT water, sprayed it LIBERALLY on the stain, laid the
clean white towel on top of it and started ironing away! Within literally SECONDS…this is what the WHITE towel
looked like.

I repeated the
process maybe
two more

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times….and the
stain was
GONE. A
stain that has
been there for I
don’t even
remember how
long! Gone! G
O N E!

My 16 year old
homemade carpet stain cleaner son was
helping me and
he and I were
AMAZED!
We could
hardly believe
our eyes. It was
so easy and
quick and there
wasn’t even
any scrubbing
homemade carpet stain cleaner involved. Who
would have
ever thought to use a steam iron and a towel to draw the stain up out of the carpet? Well, probably some of you…but
not me! lol. Simply brilliant.

This smashing success spurred me on to tackle the MUCH bigger stain in the same room. Another stain I have NO
idea how long it’s been there or even HOW it got there. And once again….success at getting out MOST of the stain.
If I didn’t have a dinner party deadline pressing on me….I would have probably kept at it all night long….but I had
to “call the game” after about an hour because I was running out of time to get everything done. But as you can see
by THIS before and after…the miracle carpet cleaner was definitely doing the job!

Just look at the

PILE of white
towels I went
through before
I called it a
night! That
was a serious
stain!

Since most of
your stains will
homemade carpet stain cleaner probably be
more like the first stain I showed
you. I am MORE than confident in
saying……TRY IT!!! It truly is
amazing stuff! Can’t wait to try it on
more stains! :-)

Oh….I almost forgot……

THANK YOU TAMMIE!!

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