when I was a kid who went to church, the church ladies regularly ended up with vestments covered in wax.
If I recall correctly, they would iron them with an old towel between the iron and wax, and the iron would melt the wax and it would be absorbed by the towel.
I was thinking the iulia type boiling dip. Iron could be good too. It looks too saturated to freeze and pick.
It also is prob a hand wash garment now. OR you wax the whole thing and have a waxed shirt/jacket.
Ummm if I buy a cotton jacket can I make my own waxed jacket? Would I be the coolest?
I feel like I asked this before but didn’t follow the advice:
My in-laws give us Visa gift cards for Christmas (they used to give everyone clothes but switched, so the idea kind of is that they’re supposed to be for clothes) and I have no idea how to use them. I can use them online I think, but only if the total in the cart is less than the total on the card? I could use them for groceries, but I get 6% back on groceries from my credit card, so that doesn’t seem efficient. We could just put them on Amazon, but we get a 5% back on Amazon and also I don’t really want to spend hundreds of dollars on Amazon (even though I’m sure we would eventually). I have been delaying doing anything about this for a few years now, so I have somewhere between $800-$1000 (depending on how many we can find… and also assuming each card has $200 on it which might not be true) in gift cards that I should really freaking use!
My mom used to give me Visa gift cards and I mostly haven’t used them - Amazon won’t let use then online for some reason.
The only useful thing I can really think of is gas.
You might be able to split transactions online. I’ve done it at the grocery store too, though not with a Visa gift card. $50 was a Butterball gift check thing, then the rest went on my card as usual. The cashier did have to check with a manager that the check was legit, I think that would be less of an issue with a Visa gift card.
I have used them to buy an Amazon gift certificate of that exact amount and then I delete the card from my payment methods and leave the credit there for when I need it.
Restaurants? Then you can have a second method of payment if you run out.
Groceries? Costco (if you’re in the US)? Home Depot, etc.?
I tend to end up with those on occasion, usually as manufactured spending when I want to hit a sign up bonus, and generally I turn them straight into charitable donations, but honestly this is a case where optimization might not be your friend. Even if you can get 6% back somewhere by using your own card, on $1000 that’d be $60 back and $940 spent vs $0 spent (and $0 back, but that matters a lot less if you didn’t spend any money in the first place). Or if there’s a big purchase coming up, check the amount on each card, write it on each card (+register each card in your name if they don’t come like that), and then you can take them all to the for-real store and input them for the full amount one at a time.
Just in case–if they don’t have your name on them, you probably have to register them in your name before you can use them online. They made that change a little while ago to try to deter fraud, and there should be a website or number on the back you can use to register.