Thursday, April 5, 2012   Ask a Clean Person: Get Rid of the
Easter Bunny, Seriously, He's Revolting  I found this totally
gorgeous white rabbit fur muff at a thrift store a few years ago
and, for whatever reason, put it in a closet in my parents'
house and forgot about it for too long. I just rediscovered it,
only to find that it has been infested by a team of some kind of
creepy invertebrate that may or may not all still be alive. How
do I de-bug it without harming the delicate, soft rabbit fur so
that I can go ice skating, walk in winter wonderlands, and enjoy
other old-fashioned winter fun with my beautiful rabbit fur
muff?  Oh dear, well yes, this is certainly one of the perils of
thrift- and vintage-store treasures: creepy crawlies. *scratches
at self* Since you don't know precisely what the nature of the
infestation is, your best bet is to go with boric acid, which
sounds scary but really totally isn't. Unless you're a bug, in
which case it's TERRIFYING because basically every bug ever
haaates boric ac