Originally Posted by
katesnanna
While reading all the answers here I remembered reading on another site about getting smells out of bottles and food containers. People were saying to put scrunched up newspaper in them then put the lid on and leave them for a few days and all odors were gone.
I was thinking this may be a way to remove the odor from fabric. Place in a bucket with a lid or place in a plastic bag and tie the top. Worth a try. If it will remove odors from plastic containers and salsa bottles it should work for fabric.
The newspaper idea works great, but you have to change them intermittently. One summer, I put my fresh dug garden carrots in a camping cooler and FORGOT them. Oh, the smell inside that cooler was AWFUL. I bleached it, used vinegar, soda and all that stuff and NOTHING worked-----until someone suggested the newspapers. i scrunched them up and changed the papers daily and was surprised they soaked up any odor. We have since used that cooler many years later on a regular basis with no scent left behind. At the end of every canning season, I scrunch up a couple large sheets of newspaper and stuff them inside my pressure and water bath canners until the next canning season....that way the newspaper absorbs any moisture OR odors. HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL.