I rec'd these tips in an email from Club Mom today and thought I'd share.


General Tips

Use cold water to prevent protein stains such as blood, eggs, or dairy from setting.
Use a nail scrub brush or an old toothbrush to scrub a stain.
Rub white soap like an eraser on the stain.
Add a quarter cup of baking soda or a cup of cider vinegar to your regular laundry detergent to brighten clothes.
Add one cup of ammonia or half a cup of pine disinfectant cleaner to your regular wash as an added stain and odor remover.
For small stains, place a rubber band around the outside of the stained area and soak the spot in bleach-water overnight.

Food Stains

Alcohol
Soak in cool water, then wash in warm, sudsy water.

Chocolate or Grape Juice
Pretreat it with an enzyme product.
Rub in club soda until the stain is gone.
Wash chocolate with sudsy water with a little ammonia.
Use a dry cleaning solvent.
Remove a fresh grape juice stain from cotton or linen by immediately pouring hot water through the material.

Coffee or Tea
Sponge the stain with cool water.
Soak clothing in one quart lukewarm water, half a teaspoon dishwashing liquid, and one teaspoon white vinegar.

Food Coloring Stains
Rub with toothpaste and rinse in cold water.

Juice
Rub the stain with cold water then soak in a quart of warm water with a tablespoon of ammonia and half a teaspoon of liquid detergent.
Apply baking soda to the spot.

Ketchup
Apply baking soda to the spot.

Milk
Sprinkle on unflavored meat tenderizer, which breaks down the proteins, and rinse in cold water.
Presoak in enzyme product for 30 minutes if stain is new, several hours if stain is old.

Salad Dressing and Oil-Based Sauces
Apply cornstarch to the spot to absorb grease.

Wine
Soak a red wine stain with white wine and rinse with cool water.
Use an enzyme laundry detergent.
Rinse white wine with cool water.

Baby Stains

Drool
Apply baking soda to the spot.

Formula and Spit-Up
Keep a spray bottle of water mixed with baking soda handy to prevent spit-up from setting on clothing.
Soak in a covered bucket of warm water mixed with one cup of Borax. Add another cup of Borax to the regular wash cycle.
For color-safe clothes, add to warm water, half a cup of dishwashing detergent, and half a cup of color-safe bleach and soak overnight.
Flush the stain with water immediately and spot-clean with diluted ammonia.

Urine
Presoak clothing in one quart of warm water, half a teaspoon of mild liquid detergent, and one tablespoon of ammonia.
Follow treatment of ammonia with vinegar or lemon.
If all else fails, try an enzyme paste for 20 minutes. Note: Do not treat urine with bleach, as it will react just as ammonia and bleach react to one another — by producing irritating, and possibly toxic, chlorine gas.

Outdoor Stains

Dirt, Mud, and Grease
Rub on carpet cleaner before washing.
Rub grease with shortening or lard to absorb it, then scrape off lard and launder.
Boil stained white socks in water with lemon slices.

Grass
Rub with a solution of one part rubbing alcohol to two parts water on colorfast material.
Rub with liquid detergent or shampoo for oily hair.
Pretreat stains on clothes by rubbing in non-gel white toothpaste with an old toothbrush. Let sit overnight, then wash.

Other Stubborn Stains

Blood
Soak in cold water and then rub with soap until stain almost disappears, then wash.
Apply a paste of cornstarch and water and allow it to dry.
Sprinkle a layer of table salt on top of the spot.
Rub on hydrogen peroxide, then soak in cold water for half an hour.
If all else fails, add ammonia to the wash cycle.

Crayons
Place the fabric on an ironing board, then cover the stain with waxed paper (waxed side down). Place a wet rag on top of the paper and iron on high heat.

Gum
Put clothing in the freezer or freeze the spot with an ice cube.
Scrape off the gum once it's hard.
Remove gum from hair with peanut butter.
Soften gum with egg white and then scrape it off.
Rub a little odorless paint thinner in to dissolve the gum, then wash separately.
Ink
Loosen stain with hairspray.
Moisten with a teaspoon of dishwashing liquid, one quart of warm water, and one tablespoon of white vinegar (don't use vinegar on cotton or linen). Blot, repeat. Let sit 30 minutes.
Presoak the stain in milk.

Ink (Ballpoint)
Apply lukewarm glycerin, blot, and flush with water.
Add several drops of ammonia and blot.
Flush with water.

Nail Polish
Sponge the stain with acetone-based nail polish remover and let it dry.

Paint
Flush latex paint with warm water.
Flush oil-based paint with turpentine.

Perspiration
Pre-treat by rubbing the area with baking soda.
Soak fabric for one hour in water in which you've dissolved three aspirin.

Rust
Soak fabric in salt and lemon juice.

Yellow Stains
Spray oven cleaner on the spot and let it dry. Take care not to get any on your skin.
For yellowed white cottons or linens, wash in hot water and twice as much detergent. Stop the cycle 15 minutes in and soak the clothing for 15 minutes. Start again and repeat the cycle.