How much money does it take to clean a one dollar dress?

Soaked the stinky dress in Coke for maybe a day (see above). Then I washed it. Dang. Should have taken better notes because I don't remember what I used in the washer. The thing still reeked of gasoline.

So I soaked it in baking soda and vinegar and then washed it in vinegar. The smell was GONE! No it wasn't. I lied. I hung it up to dry on the back porch clothes line. Then I stuck it in a trash bag and sprinkled baking soda on it.

Yesterday I took it out of the bag and washed it with vinegar. Did that work? No. So I got a couple of towels and stuck them and the dress back in the washer after soaking the dress with Resolve Laundry Stain Remover. I added laundry detergent and color safe bleach and washed it again and hung it back outside. Odor gone after that? Kinda. For the most part. Like I could make a wall hanging out of it but I'm not ready to wear it. So one last idea popped into my head.

I stuck it in the freezer next to the turkey. I read earlier this year that freezing your Birkenstock sandals would get rid of the funky odor they get sometimes. So I decided to give it a try on the dress. I'll take it out in a day or two. Hope that's all I have to do because I've washed the thing so much that the lettering on the tag stating "Dry Clean Only" has completely disappeared!

I'm planning on incorporating the dress into my RSB. Between washings of the stinky dress I have been stitching. I'll post some of those photos tomorrow. Speaking of photos, more have been added to the Rockstar boro flickr group. Click here to see what everyone has been making.