Can I be honest? I'd like to round up every single stuffed animal in the house, throw 'em in a box, and ship 'em to Iraq. I've done it with a bunch and I'd do it with the rest, if it weren't for those meddling kids (and my husband, who would never give up his Teddy). They have attachments to a few of their toys, so we're keeping them for the foreseeable future. And they get gross. Nasty, matted, stinky, rotten little wads of fluff.
So, how to keep Teddy, Little Bunny Foo Foo, and Aunt Frances Elephant from becoming germ farms? Dollar Stretcher, one of the great go-to sites for economical DIY ideas, has a long list of tips for washing stuffies. My favorite is the suggestion to dry the toys in the sunshine; my grandma always said "sunshine sanitizes", after all. But with any luck, the soft toys will go wherever it is the socks go during the laundering process, and then I won't have to deal with them anymore.
(via Lifehacker)
