Until we discover fabrics that wash themselves (long awaited!) we have to combat stains as best we can. And the least we can say is that our clothes get stained very quickly (particularly when we try to multi-task as if we have 8 arms, but the foods we are preparing beg to differ…) A wine stain in the middle of a romantic meal (not very alluring), ketchup stains on your youngest child’s t-shirt (he loves it, but spaghetti is always a massacre), a coffee stain during the morning rush before you have really woken up….. it’s always a catastrophe. With a difficult stain: act fast, act efficiently! Here are the best solutions for removing the most common and most difficult stains.