Get Rid of the Cord

Is there anything worse than having to walk away from the ironing board and finding you’ve caught your arm or leg on the cord, sending the whole mess tumbling to the ground? If it hasn’t happened to you yet, it will eventually. The worst part? If you’re ironing in the kitchen or other room with hardwood or tile, if you drop the iron wrong the tip can dig a gash into your floor!

There is a better way. To iron cordless, the first thing to look at is your iron. Do you really need a heavy iron with a clunky cord to get your clothing wrinkle-free? Wouldn’t steaming be a better alternative? Plumping those clothing fibers and making your clothing look newer when you’re done instead of squashed like it was stuck in ironing presses for too long?

The Tobi steamer can be unhooked easily from the base and then, using the handy shoulder strap, be toted to wherever you need wrinkles removed from your home. Refresh the draperies in your kitchen, and when you do, the steam will also remove the food odors that naturally get caught in the fabric when you cook. That will make your kitchen smell sweeter after only a few minutes of steaming.

That just won’t happen with a corded iron. You’d have to spend all that time taking down the draperies and then putting them on the ironing board you had to take out. Not to mention using the iron would not remove the odors in anything, so you’d have to run a load of laundry before you even ironed.

Getting the Most out of Your Tobi Steamer

So you have a Tobi and are looking to find uses beyond help with smoothing wrinkles in clothing? Have we got some suggestions for you!

• Camping? Use your Tobi to remove smells and wrinkles from your camping equipment. Anything that is not made of leather or is specifically labeled as "not safe for steaming" can be steam cleaned, making your next camping trip both wrinkle-free and odor-free.
• Love Your Car? Your house upholstery isn’t the only thing you can clean with your Tobi. Car upholstery can be cleaned with the Tobi as well, removing odors and freshening the fabric. Do not use the Tobi on leather seats!
• Have a Baby? When you have a new baby, it’s important to keep baby’s room odor free and baby’s sheets free from dust mites. The Tobi handheld steamer can help you keep baby sheets, and even cloth diapers free of bacteria and mites and other things that live on fabric that are too small for the human eye to see.

When it comes to your camping equipment or your car, you don’t have to worry about dragging these outdoor items into the house or getting out a bunch of extension cords to do the car. Tobi’s cordless option makes cleaning your camping gear and freshening up the inside of your car a snap!

Help the Earth

We’re all looking for ways to be kinder to the earth we live on. From driving cars that use more electricity than oil and recycling instead of throwing everything into a landfill, here are some tips on recycling that can help you be kind to the earth. Don’t worry, none of the tips are overwhelming, and once you start being kind to the earth, you’ll notice it’s an easy habit to maintain.

If you aren’t already recycling, check into your local township or city regulations to find out how to get started. In some cities, you have to separate your recyclables into three different bags (paper, plastic, and aluminum) and in some all you have to do is throw all the recyclables into the same container and public works.

Another way to recycle is composting. If you have a garden in your backyard or on the side of your house, compost is fantastic and will help you grow bigger and better fruits, vegetables, and flowers. Compost is made up of any trash that is food or plant based and you can put your composter behind your garage so it doesn’t smell too bad. You can also use a covered bucket in your kitchen if you have a smaller garden.

The idea of a "carbon footprint" is that it's possible to measure the resources that you consume, including the effects you have on the environment. A smaller carbon footprint is better, because less resource use means less damage. The most common way to reduce carbon footprint is to use fewer heavy appliances. These are the things that have the greatest effect on both the environment and your electricity bill. If you use the Tobi Steamer to refresh clothes rather than putting them through the wash, you're helping both the Earth and your budget.

How Tobi Helps Clean Your House

Very few people love cleaning house. They don’t call it a chore for nothing! But even when you’re dreading the task of cleaning your house, there are ways to make the job much easier and quicker than you’re used to.

Make sure your Tobi hand held steamer is ready for your draperies, upholstery, and other fabric you have in your home. When you steam the fabric in your home it looks better and some of the wear of use is less noticeable because you’ve plumped that fabric back up and removed odors that are trapped in the fabric.

Then discover your preferred way to clean house. Will you feel better if you clean one whole room and can watch every part of that room sparkle? Or will it make you feel good to clean all the windows in the whole house? Depending on which will make you feel better, you can divide up your household chores into a room by room or an “all windows” or “all floors” type of list.

There is no right way to clean a house, only the way that makes you feel good about your efforts. Once you know what makes you feel good, you can use that knowledge to attack housecleaning without as much stress.

Looking to Save Money on Dry Cleaning

Looking to save money on dry cleaning bills? Here are some tips to keep your dry cleaning bill lower and give your household budget more wiggle room.

• Find a dry cleaner that has a bulk discount. When you do this you can go to the dry cleaner less because you’ve saved up more clothing and saved money on gas from not going to the dry cleaner once a week.
• Only dry clean when a garment needs it. Using a Tobi steamer refreshes your clothing and removes odors so you can wear an outfit or a shirt more than once before taking it into the dry cleaner.
• Can you dry clean at home? There are systems available where you can throw your dry clean garments into a special bag with chemicals into the dryer. Make sure you really need to do this. In many cases refreshing your garment will make it more than presentable to wear again.
• Pick a closer dry cleaner. If you use a dry cleaner, is it the closest to your home? You will save money by saving gas if you choose a dry cleaner closer to home. If your job offers on-site dry cleaning, make sure to add in the gas money you spend when you compare the pricing of the on-site dry cleaning services versus the close-to-home dry cleaning services.

Remove Wrinkles from Permanent Press Clothing

Permanent press clothing can be difficult to clean. While it’s great when you first pick up a pair of permanent press pants, you’re thinking you’re never going to need to iron again. From the washing machine straight through to the permanent press setting on the dryer, you’re thinking your ironing days are over.

Well, not quite. After a while most permanent press treatments start to wear off. If most of your clothing is already permanent press, you probably haven’t seen your iron in years. So now you have slightly older clothing and don’t know where to find your iron. What to do? First of all, don’t run out and buy a new iron because that will just age your clothing even faster and second, you'll need to learn how to remove wrinkles from permanent press clothes using another method.

It’s easy to get the wrinkles out of your pants with the tobi wrinkle remover. Hang the pants from the Tobi steamer’s handy clothing rack. Tug gently on the bottom of the pant leg while running the Tobi over the pant leg. Once those wrinkles are out, do the same for the other pant leg. It only takes a minute with the Tobi steamer and you won’t have to deal with waiting for the iron to get hot or having to get out an ironing board. Fast and convenient – that’s the Tobi.

Save Your Budget

Everyone is looking for ways to increase home savings and squeeze a few extra dollars from the current budget. Whatever you may be saving for – a vacation, retirement, or just the bills – no budget ever has enough money for everything (including fun things) we would like to buy.

Looking around the house is the first way to make sure you are doing everything in your power to make sure your budget isn’t being spent unwisely.

Electricity

Your electricity bill can really sneak up on you. In the summer months you probably use your air conditioning a little more than is absolutely necessary. In winter, it gets dark earlier and you probably keep the house lights on more often than you really need to, just to keep the house light longer.

Checking to make sure your lights aren’t on when they shouldn’t be, and keeping track of the weather and turning off the air conditioner when you don’t need it on are two ways to lower your electricity bill without a lot of effort.

Make your clothes last longer

Ironing crushes fabrics and wears out your clothing more quickly than steaming. Your use of a handheld steamer will make your budget smile by making your household fabrics and clothing last longer. Not only does ironing crush the fibers, the more you wash your clothing and draperies and other fabrics around the house, the faster they wear out. When you refresh your home fabrics with a Tobi steamer you won’t have to wash them as much and you’ll find they last much longer. In the case of draperies they can last years longer than washing them regularly.

Stop Ironing, Start Steaming

A home budget is something everyone should have. It keeps your spending and saving on track so you can retire to the life you want to live. One of the best ways to make sure you’re saving enough is to reduce unnecessary expenses and make the things you have last longer.

Ironing uses heat and force to get rid of wrinkles. While this may be the way you’ve always taken care of your wrinkled laundry, and may be the way your parents and your parents’ parents have taken care of wrinkles, that doesn’t make it the best way. The way the weight of the iron – and the force you put on the iron – flattens the fibers of your clothing and linens. That flattening wears down the fibers in your clothing and makes it necessary to replace that clothing much sooner than steaming.

Why is steaming better? Instead of crushing the fibers of all your fabrics, the Tobi (and the Tobi handheld steamer) rejuvenates each piece of your clothing. The steam plumps the fabric and restores it back to its original shape. Not crushing your fabrics is a great way to stop replacing clothing and start saving more money.

Take Ironing to the Extreme

You don’t have to be extreme, ironing for hours and hours in a row until you have sweat on your forehead and a serious pain in your lower back. Here are some ways to reduce the stress on your back as well as in your heart when it comes to ironing.

• Not everything needs to be ironed! Really, no one is going to see your skivvies and they don’t need to be wrinkle free. Nor do your socks. When looking at your ironing pile, take stock of how many things really need to be ironed.
• Steam instead of iron. This works for everything from undies to pants to your favorite negligee. If you use the clothing rack that you can conveniently add on when you pick up your Tobi steamer you will find you can steam an entire load of laundry one after the other without having to hurt your back.
• Have someone else do it. If you’re looking for a temporary break, consider hiring a local student to come in and do your ironing for you. This was very common fifty years ago. If it’s an issue of time you can even have your local student use your Tobi steamer to get your laundry wrinkle free and looking fantastic.

Using Your Tobi to Refresh Table Linen

It's always the same problem. The nice table linens stay in a closet most of the time, beacause no one wants their special tablecloth subjected to daily wear and tear. But when you take them out of the closet, they're wrinkled and the folds are creased. You could spend a lot of time ironing out those creases and risk damaging the tablecloth, or you could use the power of steam to plump and refresh the fabric without damaging it. The Tobi Steamer is a gentle way to clean fabrics, and can help get the cupboard smell out of your special linens when you need them to shine. Even better, the gentle steam will cause less wear than an iron would, so your linens will last longer.

Ways to Save Money

Are you looking for tips on how to save money? You really don’t need to look further than your front door. There are many things you can change in your home that will reduce your expenses and help you save the money you need.

• Paper Products Need to Go If you are using paper towels or paper cups or paper plates the best way to start helping your budget is to trash the disposable dishes. It helps the earth while it helps your wallet. A few extra dishes isn’t going to cause you that much more stress, and the money you save will make you feel a lot better.
  
• Have infants? Consider Cloth Diapers If you are thinking about taking the jump to cloth diapers with your baby, it can be very handy to make sure you have a Tobi wrinkle remover available in case there are any lingering odors. Steaming can also remove any wrinkles from the cloth diapers and revitalize the fabric so they last longer.
  
• Turn Off the Faucet When you want to get some hot water, do you leave the faucet on until it gets hot? That’s not saving you any time compared to putting the water on the stove straight from the tap and turning up the heat on the stove. Running the water can be an expensive habit to get into and conserving water helps the earth as well as your local water supply.