good as new

My bag of clothespins got left out on the line

while we were on vacation last week.

Which left me with a bunch of nasty clothespins.

It just so happened that my dryer went out

two days after we returned home.

And me

with mildew-y clothespins!

Yuck!

I figured

that before I tossed them

I should at least try to clean them

so I poured 'em all in a bucket

and added a squirt of dish-soap

and a glug of bleach.

They tried floating to the top

so I grabbed a quart size zip bag, filled it with water

and set it on top of my pins.

An hour or so later

I poured off the now-brown bleach water

and wiped down each pin as I rinsed them under running water.

I clipped them along the top edge of a box to dry

and viola

good as new!