One of the first steps you need to take when cleaning thrift store clothes is to search the pockets. This is important, as previous owners may have left items in the pockets. Such items, if left in the pockets, could damage your new clothing when you go to wash it. Remove any items like pens, money, hair ties, or anything else. Turn the pockets inside out so you know whether you've searched that article of clothing already. After searching pockets, you should take a minute to examine the clothes really carefully. Examining your clothes is important, as depending on their age and condition, you might need to take specific steps to safeguard them. There are a number of things you'll need to look for when examining your thrift store clothes: Stains that should be treated. Rips or tears that need to be repaired. Worn out fabric that should be patched or replaced. Delicate fabric that needs to be handled with care. Before taking any action to clean the clothes, you need to read the care tags carefully. Care tags are included on almost all mass produced clothes and will provide instructions for how to clean and care for the clothing. Care tags are often located on the back collar of shirts and blouses, or on the middle of the back waist on pants. Homemade and boutique clothes may not have care tags. In this case, use your best judgement to determine the fabric and how to care for it. If you're not sure, you should probably just dry clean the item. When looking at care tags, identify instructions about the temperature of water you need to use when washing your clothes, instructions for drying your clothes, instructions for bleaching your thrift store clothes, and instructions about how to iron your clothes. Based on the care labels and other factors, you need to sort your clothes and create several piles. By sorting your clothes, you'll make sure that clothes are washed and dried appropriately. Sort by colors. While thrift store clothes have probably been laundered and may not run, you should still sort by colors. This will make sure you preserve lighter colored fabrics. Sort by fabric. Different fabrics, like cottons, should be washed together. Make a pile for special needs fabrics like silk, wool, or velvet. These will very often need to be dry cleaned. Consult the care tag if you have any doubt. Create a pile for delicate or vintage fabrics. These fabrics may need to be dry cleaned, or at the very least washed by themselves.
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One-sentence summary -- Search pockets. Examine the clothes. Read the care labels on the clothes. Sort your clothes.

Mix vodka, aloe vera juice, lemon eucalyptus oil, and an essential oil blend into a spray bottle. It can be applied to your skin or sprayed near infested areas to ward off flies. In a spray bottle of a cup of hot water, add 20 drops of lemongrass essential oil. Shake well. It does not kill flies, but it does repel them. Spray the mixture on windowsills, doorways, and other problem areas you see fit around your kitchen. The mixture can double as a room freshener as well.
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One-sentence summary -- Use a vodka based repellent to kill houseflies and fruit flies. Make a lemongrass spray repellent for fruit flies and houseflies.

You'll need to create an additional account on Facebook to take over your account once Facebook deems you "dead." You'll also need to deem someone as your legacy contact if you are trying to trick the internet. Change the relationship status. Make the fake Facebook account a sibling of yours via Facebook's family setting. This will make it easier to convince Facebook that your "death" is legitimate. Add several friends of yours on the fake account. From your current Facebook profile, set your legacy contact in your settings as your "fake" sibling (which you just created). Facebook will give you a template that you can expand or detract from. You can find the legacy contact in the security section which is found in the settings menu. You'll need at least a couple of friends to write "RIP" on your Facebook wall. This will help curb any suspicions from the Facebook team responsible for memorializing accounts. Ask a small network of friends. You might be able to get the request accepted without the help of your friends, but it doesn't hurt your chances. From the fake account fill out a memorialization request for yourself. It helps if you are good with an image editing software in order to generate a fake article about your death. If there is anything you can use, submit it through the memorization request. The additional obituary or newspaper article is only optional as it says on Facebook. It should take a couple of days for Facebook to review your request. Once they do they will send either a confirmation or denial to your fake account. Try not to log into your real Facebook account until you received a confirmation from Facebook. Once they memorialize your account, you will have complete control of your "old" Facebook through the fake account.
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Create a fake Facebook account. Choose a legacy contact. Get a few willing friends. Send in a memorialization request. Wait for the confirmation.