Clean Wine Stains from Carpet w/ Salt

Dilute the stain with a bit of white wine. This may seem counterintuitive (in fact, it should), but pouring on a bit of white wine will help dilute the color.
If you don't have white wine lying around, you can skip this step. It's not imperative, just helpful for color purposes.

Dampen a sponge and blot the stain. Using cool water on your sponge, dab at the stain gently. This will soak up the top layer and some color, but not press the stain into the carpet fibers (if you do it lightly enough).It bears repeating: BLOT. Don't rub, scrub, massage, press, or any other verb that involves force. Just blot. Lightly. You don't want the stain to soak in anymore than it already is.

Pour salt over the stain. You want to pour enough salt to soak into the stain and then a layer on top of that. When you think it's enough salt, pour on a little more, for good measure.You can leave it as is right now or you can cover it with a few paper towels and place a heavy weight on top. Use your discretion and whatever you have available.

Let it set for up to 8 hours. Some people will tell you it'll be ready in 10 minutes.^[2] Others will tell you to continue on with your party (giving the culprit a sippy cup) and worry about it in the morning.^[3] Whatever school of thought you adhere to, all you need right now is to have blind faith in the salt gods. It's basically magic.The salt draws out the liquid (like how when you eat a french fry you want a Coke) and absorbs the stain; that's why pouring on white wine was okay, too

Throw away the excess salt and vacuum up the carpet. TADA! And you thought salt was just to constrict your blood vessels. Your carpet should be virtually good as new. To remove the salty residue, just dampen with cool water and vacuum again to restore its natural texture.

                                                    ♥Kay♥