Booo 
I hope you find a way to get it out
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I feel like a good scrub with a toothbrush+dawn, and then a run through the washing machine might do the trick? I’ve been able to get pretty tough grease/oil stains out of already washed/dried clothes with a dawn scrub+soak, which impresses me because I always thought once it’s dried with the stain it’s stuck forever
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Also there are plastic frames that you can stretch a wet hat over so that it blocks out to the correct size.
And I do none of this because dh somehow has a gajillionity of those hats. I don’t know where they come from. If they get gross I toss them.
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Lol I have dual hat racks with like 8 hooks each inside my closet door with like three layers of hats on each. I wear like 5 of them. How did this happen
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Husband has dozens, but only like two that don’t have automotive grease fingerprints on the bill. I have I think three, two in good shape and one so faded you can’t tell what color it used to be.
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I would fill a sink or bucket with water and and OxyClean (or its counterpart that I find at the dollar store) and soak it all night. Then scrub and rinse. I haven’t tried it with hats but that trick has worked for me on kids’ stained clothes that other stain removing techniques couldn’t fix.
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This is a minor dumb question but I’ve always wondered and someone reminded me of it today. Parents! Why do some parents refer to their kids’ ages in months? Like, “my 18 month old” or “my 22 month old” instead of my 1 1/2 year old, etc. I get it for babies under a year but why do some people keep counting by month? Is it a development thing?
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Yep! Until about 3 the developmental milestones and sleep schedules etc are all shorter than a year! By age 3 I think most people switch to years.
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Ah! Ok, thank you, haha. I always feel like it’s a sneak attack math problem.
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There’s a massive difference between the developmental expectations of a 20 month old and a 26 month old. Like Elle said, until 3 years old development is SO fast. And kid body size can vary a ton, too, so it’s not always obvious how old a kid is visually. But the expectations of their receptive language, motor skills, impulse control, social skills are hugely different, so it can help to have a pretty precise idea of how old they are.
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I struggle with the month math past 18 month or so, so fwiw I tend to say “2 and 3 months” or “he’ll be 2 next month” (and that’s also how I count in my head).
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Before kids I was annoyed by people telling me how many months old their kid was, and after kids I was too tired to remember exactly how many months old they were. I would round. Or, in the case of my obviously delayed kid, ask the person to guess then tell them they got it exactly.
That second approach helped me avoid conversations about his delays. Old lady on the bus, I do not want to discuss this with you.
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One of my kids is 207 months old, the other is 186 months old. I might start doing this now.
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This is me. I’ve been saying “almost 2” for like…8? 9? months now. But I still get annoyed when people are all…“39 months.” WTF, why math why?
ETA: I also default to the standard, “2 in April.” You do the math jerk. YOU DO IT.
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ITS OBVIOUSLY A TODDLER, KAREN.
(apologies to forumers named Karen. I love you)
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My sister in law was in the flip side of this position - she regularly got the side eye when her two year old behaved like a two year old, and was in diapers, like two year old’s are, etc, because her 2 year old was the size of most three year old’s.
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This was/is usually my main approach for age reporting.
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It’s also (maybe?) most often asked by a grown up who is mentally (or outwardly) comparing to their own remarkable darling child. So it can be a trap.
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Yeah we have this “problem” (dynamic?) in our neighborhood play group. We have some younger Mega Tots and some tiny preschoolers, and it requires some complicated interaction navigating!
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I think it’s sometimes how people make conversation. But it’s a boring conversation.
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