My accomplishment for the week

In my research on how to get silly putty out of polar fleece sheets (an entire container of green silly putty smeared into my favourite microfleece bottom sheet by a child who had sat in it unknowingly), most of the suggestions involved trying to scrape or rub the offending patch out. Friction might work on smooth fabrics, but not so much on soft fleece.
Happily, the suggestion that rubbing alcohol would dissolve the mess proved true - a quick scrub with some hairspray and a surgical brush, followed by a trip through a hot water wash dealt with the whole mess. Now, if only the hairspray had worked on the inkstain it was bought to dissolve from an office blouse: it turns out that alcohol doeesn't work on gel pen ink as it does on standard ballpoint ink.