American Eagle Artist jeans actually fit me properly!

I realized this week-end that there is one style of American Eagle Outfitter jeans that fit me well, even around the thighs. They are the artist jeans. My other pairs were so big it was hard to tell, but a few weeks back I found a pair of Artist size 0 jeans at value village, and those fit almost as well as the Silver Jeans the Tuesday fit.  I wonder if they make shorts in the artist type..

The Kerosene is history

Two thumbs up for Motormaster heavy duty hand cleaner citrus scented with pumice stones. It got the grease and the smell out of my jeans who had kerosene spilled on them while camping last week.  After soaking one day with a few squirts of the Motomaster cleaner, the only smell left was citrus, and once dried, the jeans are very clean. The three large areas where kerosene had been spilled are no longer of a darker shade and I don't find the jeans smell of anything now that they are dry

I have the smaller bottle of Canadian Tire cleaner, which I find helpful when my hands are dirty after working around the house. It's a gentle cleaner which also takes care of grease and grime.  I've had the bottle for probably as long as I've been in this house and apparently still find new uses for it. 

My jeans were full of Kerosene

I went camping earlier in the week and I always bring with me a kerosene camp light, which I find far more pleasant to light up a campground at night then my camp light whose light is too white.

Unfortunately the bottle I'd been carrying kerosene with was so old that when I opened the lid, the plastic just broke and my jeans were covered in kerosene. These are a pair of Levi's that still fit and are great to go camping in, so I figured I have to get rid of the kerosene. The smell didn't bother me much but my daughter was afraid I'd be flammable. By now the smell left is just lingering and the kerosene itself should mostly have evaporated. I left the jeans hang outside for the 2 remaining days we camped, and then soaked them for 2 more days.

The last day I decided to add some Motomaster heavy duty hand cleaner for grease that contains pumice stone and citrus oils. After soaking a day in that all the jeans smell of is citrus. So I put them through a wash cycle in the washer and am now hang drying them, as I could just smell citrus. After they are dried I'll check the smell again. If they still smell like kerosene, they will spend several days out on the clothes line after being washed with vinegar and baking soda.