How to Re-Fluff a Pillow

Tools needed

• sewing pins
• scissors
• hand sewing needles
• thread
• pet hair brush
• seam ripper

Directions

1.  Seam rip open the top of the pillow and dump the fluff into a bin or trash sack. Clean the pillow casing.

2. Grab a hand full of fluff and brush the stuffing on the pet hair brush till it is no longer compacted. Repeat until all the stuffing is re-fluffed.



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3. Put the stuffing back into the pillow and pin closed. 

 4. Hand sew closed the top of the pillow.

Cottage Cheese pillows

Our pillows looked like cottage cheese and were no longer nice to lay our heads on anymore. I wanted to find out if I could re-fluff a pillow instead of having to buy a new one and it worked. I have heard the argument that it isn't really worth the time to re-fluff a pillow when a new one doesn't cost that much. My response is sometimes a person has time and no money. Or the argument  "its only a few dollars" but those few dollars add up really fast. 

Left side-Re-Fluffed            Right side NOT fluffed

I re-fluffed when I was listening to audio books with my kids and timed it. It took me 9 hours 39 minutes and 46 seconds to re-fluff a king size pillow. So you could probably re-fluff a throw pillow in about 3 hours and a twin size pillow in 4  and 30 minutes. If you need a new pillow re-fluff it instead. Put on a movie or listen to an audio-book and make your pillows nice and fluffy again and save some money. Now the question I am asking myself is, how many times can I re-fluff my pillow?