SCENTSY RAFFLE!!

HEY EVERYONE! i am having a scentsy plug in raffle! if you purchase 40.00 worth of product you will be entered into a raffle for a free plug in! I will announce the winner after the party is closed! too buy from party go to www.tobley.scentsy.us and click on "buy from party"

The Adventure Continues

Ok everyone we have accomplished two more money saving projects! check them out!

Dishwasher Soap- 1 cup Borax, 1 cup baking soda, 1/4 cup citric acid, 1/4 cup kosher salt, and 1/2 cup washing soda. Mix it all up and you are done! now just use about 2 tbs in your dishwasher and then put some vinegar in the rinse agent section. If you are like us and dont have a rinse agent section then just put a splash in the bottom of the dishwasher :)

Fabric softner-any type of conditioner you want for the scent (we used some dollar store stuff that smelled nice) use 2 cups of the conditioner, 6 cups hot water and 3 cups vinegar. find a container you want to use (we used the old laundry soap container shown above) dissolve the conditioner with the hot water into the container. add the vinegar and your done. give it a little shake before use :) this may smell a little like vinegar but it wont after drying at all :)

Laundry Soap Adventure!!

Well WE DID IT!! on our journey of becoming a frugal family with money to enjoy life we have decided to make our own laundry soap. All of us were excited about it. For Kendal it was a project and a life lesson! and for us it was simply just really Cool lol. Using everything you see here it should last our family of 5 about a year. and it cost us 20 BUCKS!!! oh yea thats right 20!!! to start off we just did 2 cups of everything including 1 cup of the grated fels naptha. you only use 2tbs for a large or dirty load. only 1 tbs for a small load.

All these ingredients were purchased Walmart :)

***This is probably not a very good idea for front load washers.

Change

So i dont know how everyone else feels about change but lately im not liking it so much. Once i feel like we have made some progress financially we take a step back....well today i have made a decision. i have been researching many ways to cut costs on things and i have decided that little by little i will be making a change that will financially benefit my family. First thing will be making our own laundry soap. I started realizing how much we spend on laundry to get clean. i mean i wash 1 to 2 laods a day and the cost is crazy. if you are a mom of an infant and a 5 yr old you know what i mean. I will post how it goes and the costs for it soon. chin up everyone this economy will not win!