This document provides instructions for properly caring for clothes and personal belongings. It discusses hanging dirty and clean clothes, mending torn items, and folding accessories. It also outlines the steps for washing clothes, including sorting, soaking, soaping, rinsing and drying. Specific instructions are given for removing common stains like rust, ink, paint, blood, chewing gum, chocolate, coffee and urine. Finally, it covers ironing clothes, including preparing the ironing board and iron, dampening clothes, setting the iron temperature and hanging ironed clothes.

1. CARE OF CLOTHES AND
PERSONAL BELONGINGS

2. 1. Hang dirty clothes after using to keep them dry from perspiration or from stain.
2. Hang clean clothes in the closet or clothes cabinet.
3. Mend or sew turn parts.
4. Fold personal accessories such as socks, stockings, handkerchiefs, headbands and
underwear neatly.
• MATERIALS:
Clean running water Hangers and clothespins
Washing basins Fabric conditioner
Soap or detergent One’s loads
PROPER CARE OF CLOTHES

3. 1. SORTING – sort out white clothes from colored ones, less soiled from the dirtier
ones.
2. SOAKING – soak the sorted clothes in clean water.
3. SOAPING – soap clothes according to the type of fabric and degree of being
soiled.
4. RINSING – rinse the soaped clothes.
5. DRYING – hang the clothes spins to hang your clothes and to prevent them from
falling.
• STAIN – is a discoloration a spot or a blot in the fabric that is clearly seen from the
surface of clothes.
PROCEDURE INWASHING CLOTHES

4. 1. Rust – put calamansi juice and salt on the spot of stain and let it dry under the sun. Repeat several
times until the stain is removed.
2. Ink – rinse in cold water before washing with soap. Put calamansi juice and salt on the stain. Let it
dry.
3. Paint – rub the stained spot with cotton and turpentine.
4. Blood – Soak stained spot immediately in cold water for about two hours. Wash in lukewarm water
and soap. Rinse well and dry.
5. Chewing gum – If the chewing gum has already hardened on the cloth, use a sharp knife blade to
scrape it. Wash with lukewarm water and soap afterward. Rinse well and dry.
6. Chocolate or Coffee – Wash stained spot with soap and water. Use calamansi, lemon or kamias
extract to remove the stains.
7. Urine – Wash in a basin of water with vinegar until the stain is removed.
REMOVING STAINS

5. • IRONING – is the use of a heated tool, such as flat iron to remove wrinkles from fabric.
• MATERIALS:
IRONING BOARD SPRAYER
FLAT IRON HANGERS
1. Prepare the ironing board, flat iron, and sprayer.
2. Damper clothes for hours before ironing. Roll the place in a container.
3. Plug the flat iron and set required temperature according to the kind of fabric of the
clothes going to iron nylon cloth, set the timer to the nylon setting.
4. For colored such as polo shirts and blouses, iron on the reverse side of the collar first.
5.Turn off the flat iron as soon you are done ironing clothes. Make sure to un plug it lso.
6. Hang the ironed clothes.