July 12, 2008 | Floors, Food & drink, Cleaning tips

Anytime you spill a large amount of liquid on your carpet or rug, the immediate instinct is to run for the paper towels or kitchen towels. We’re going to challenge that notion. If you keep cornmeal in your pantry (and who wouldn’t?), pour a healthy amount of corn meal directly onto the spilled liquid. After 15 minutes vacuum it up. The cornmeal is more absorbent than any towel or paper towel, so it’ll remove much more of the liquid than your careful blotting would. It also won’t harm the carpet fibers by agitating the spill into the carpet. It works for pretty much any liquid, though with dark liquids like red wine, coffee, etc., you’ll probably need to follow up with a stain treatment. And since both those things are acidic, club soda should do the trick for you if you after the cornmeal has removed the standing liquid.

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1. Kristi says:

   
   

   I saw this trick on TV once, but have never tried it for myself. Supposedly you can pour white wine (if you have any) on a red wine spill and it will take the color out. Then you can use the cornstarch trick, although you might want a laundry basket or something to put over the cornstarch while it does its job. A large amount of salt will absorb wine (and probably other liquids) from carpet, too.

   July 12th, 2008 at 11:13 am

2. Kathy Porter says:

   
   

   thanks, with a little one things get spilled all the time, ok so it is not only the little one that spills.

   July 12th, 2008 at 1:40 pm

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