PSA: Space Bags
I just opened up the space bags with Luke's NB and 0-3 clothes in them only to discover that a LOT of the white/light stuff had yellow spots all over. Some were really dark and others weren't too bad. I freaked at the thought of all of his lighter clothes being ruined and opened all the bags I'd stored. Anything that had been stored ~18 months or less looked fine. But the older stuff (3-6, 6-9) had the spotting too.
I did a bit of googling and discovered that you're apparently supposed to open your bags 1/year, shake out the clothes to air them out, then refold and put back. Seriously?!?!? And this info didn't even come from the spacebag company! Anyway I'm going to soak the stuff in Oxiclean then lay it out in the sun to dry and hope for the best. But I thought I'd pass on this info to you since I'd rec'ed using spacebags for clothing storage in the past. Oh and all this stuff was stored under our guest bed, not in the attic or garage.
Re: PSA: Space Bags
OK, now I shudder to think how DD's clothes have fared - since they are in cardboard boxes in the attic!
The oxiclean should help - my mom used it on lot of MY old baby clothes before she passed them down to DD and while they are not sparkling white - they are close and that is pretty good for 30+ years of storage. I'm sure you're luck can only be better.
Let us know how it goes!
Ditto this. as i went through dd's stuff to get out the gender neutral stuff i saw tons of yellow stains on her clothes that looked "clean" when i put them away. yep, milk stains. i didnt' try to wash them though, just put them back into the plastic storage bins i'd had them in. we'll cross that road if we ever have another girl.