I have removed ball point pen stains with hairspray applied to the stain before laundering. Could I use hair spray with similar success on blueberry stains?

The recommended treatment for dye stains is bleach — as strong as the fabric can tolerate. If hair spray has worked on ink (and I know that it does), by all means try it on blueberries. What do you have to lose?

Sharon Stevens, HES Extension, College of Human Environmental Sciences,
University of Missouri-Columbia