What’s the best way to prevent clothing damage?

Jin: What’s the best way to prevent clothing damage?
What’s the best way to keep clothes looking new everyday? Sometimes a day or two after I buy and wear a shirt, I find a small hole or cut on it. Maybe even oil stains on it after countless washes.

I examine clothes before I buy anything all the time, making sure there are already no stains or small cuts, etc. {I mostly wear clothing that consists of cotton}.

In a normal day for me, [reguarding this summer vacation time], I just wake up, morning routine [shower, brush teeth, etc], have breakfast sometimes and go places like the mall or movies or something like that.

I never get near anything that could do some damage to clothing like if a tree twig gets caught and rips the collar off of something.

Nah, anyway, what’s the best way to keep clothes in good shape?

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Answer by nellbelle7
You can’t really do anything to avoid tears or rips in fabric…but you can pre-treat clothing so that the colors don’t fade.

I used to soak my new clothing in saltwalter (for about 20 minutes) before washing the first time. It really does help keep the color true longer.

Answer by dimpelmum
Well many way´s to keep your clothes looking brand new, But it gives a little extra work, but worth it. You can wash your clothes on a lower temp- The less artificial heat the better. Turning your clothes inside out also help´s to keep their colour from fading on your clothes.Hanging your white clothing outside in the sun will keep them whiter than white , no need for bleach , the sun will do this the natural way. Also the sun will bleach out many stains, So really the colder the wash the better it is for your clothes and they stay a lot softer this way. Hope this help´s a little, PS, the little extra work is for those under arm sweat stain´s , for this you use good old fashioned soap,bar soap. Soak in cold water , remove and rub in the soap. Leave your clothes free from water & the soap still on for 1/2 hr, ten back to the cold water , give a rinse, This time rub more soap to the stains. pop into your washing machine on a 40ºc normal wash. adding your normal washing powder. Hang outside in the sun , and let the sun do the rest of the stain removing naturally

Answer by Jennie
If you are finding little holes in your shirt is could be the dryer. When the clothes get put into the dryer, the rubber lining around the door seems to attract the clothes. Let’s say a shirt gets trapped. For some odd reason it makes a little hole in the shirt. Also when it gets stuck it leaves a black streak on the shirt. That’s a little bit of rubber being rubbed off onto the shirt that is impossible to get off.

If you wash a load of different colors, there’s a box of color safe pads you can buy at any Walmart store. If you have a brand new shirt and you wash it by itself for fear it will bleed on everything else, buy the color safe and throw it in with all your clothes. It traps the loose color and saves the rest of your clothes. I made sure it worked by putting a brand new red sock in with my whites and the pad came out pink and none of my clothes were ruined!

For hard to get stains out. Stain Stick works great. All you have to do with that is take the stick and put it on a stain, roll the clothing item up and leave it for a few days, then wash it. If it’s a really bad stain, use dawn dish soap. Any liquid dish soap will work as long as it doesn’t have any bleach in it.