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If it's a family heirloom and you don't like it, why don't you give it to someone else in your family who does like it as is? Even if you paint it, you'll probably never be as happy with it as if you just got what your really wanted, and you could make someone else in your family very happy to receive such a treasure! Why don't you start asking around, and then give it away as a Christmas gift? This would be the best gift EVER to someone who really wants it. IE: this would look AMAZING in my own house - I have book cases that match it exactly, and I would be really sad to see a family heirloom whitewashed over so you dislike it less!

I had this same problem - Last winter during the cure I had to throw away hundreds of dollars worth of gluten-free flours because everything was infested. Moths can chew through paper and plastic snack wrappers, but they can't get through hard plastics or glass. I moved everything over to large glass and plastic jars and, and haven't had a problem since. Occasionally you might find some moths in a jar, but that just means they came home from the store already in the flour (yuck!). The jars really help keep the infestation from spreading. A worthwhile investment, IMHO!

It also helps if you do the "steam dry" cycle on your dishwasher, because then the water droplets don't sit on the dishes for so long, leavinging residue.

We have the baby wipe warmer, and we LOOVE it. You can purchase larger bags of wipes (so less packaging and more money saved), and the wipe warmer makes a very convenient place to store them so they don't dry out. Even better, if you want to be really green you can keep reuseable cloth wipes in it, and they won't get dried out either. And come-one, is it really that bad to want to use a soothing warm washcloth to clean your baby's bottom, rather than a cold alcohol soaked disposable wipe?

All I can say about Olympic paint is, I will ALWAYS use the paint, for the rest of my life. It is so non-toxic... you can eat it! Ok, you shouldn't eat it, but my 10 month old son got into the paint while we redoing the living room, and when I found him he was sucking on a wet paintbrush! We rushed him to the emergency room (bringing the paint can with us), and I was so scared I was shaking, but they told us at the ER that the paint was so non-toxic they didn't need to do anything. The worst we should expect was a tummy ache and some very colorful poo :) It's also easy to find (they have it at Lowe's) and inexpensive (20$).

Actually, in response to KaraSP up there, in the past people did NOT wash their silk clothing, they brushed it. I'm just saying that because I make historical Elizabethan/Tudor costumes and I've done research on the topic.

Silk was also the outermost layer of clothing and was rarely soiled with sweat - inside layers of linen that could be boiled clean was what was worn next to the skin. A silk gown or suit would be carefully brushed clean of dirt and packed away.

Some silk can be washed by hand in cold water with quilt soap or pure castile soap (raw silk, dupioni, even taffeta) and hung up to dry, but other kinds (typically the sheer soft kind) will lose that lustrous texture and will never be the same again.