Preschool

September 18th, 2012 

This is our first day of our second year in Preschool

Saturday Morning at Otsego Festival

Mason prepares for the bike parade to start.

Meghan also gets geared up. Almost ready to go.

Meghan rides in the back of a fire truck.

Mason drives the fire truck.

Landon gets a sword from the clown.

Mason chooses a hat from the clown.

Meghan chooses a pretty flower (moms favorite)

FED UP!!

I have HAD it! I am FED up!

I could not bring myself to buy ONE MORE bottle of over-priced, wastefully-packaged laundry detergent. Now, I’m no eco-nazi (far from it), but buying those big bottles of laundry detergent, lugging them home and then turning around and throwing them away was definitely starting to get to me. I mean seriously….what a waste! Not to mention the COST! I won’t do it!

I just happened to come across a picture someone posted on Pinterest of their “Homemade” laundry detergent! Call me naive, but it had never even occurred to me that you could MAKE your own detergent! I did a little research online and decided to give it at try. It turns out it’s actually quite easy and smells wonderful!!

The main thing you have to get used to is it hardly make any suds at all. At first this is a bit unnerving …but the more I read about it online…I realized that “suds” are not what gets our clothes CLEAN. As a matter of fact, as with dish washing liquid, the suds are totally cosmetic and add no cleaning value. Less suds is actually better for our clothes.

I started out tonight making 2 gallons. Here are the ingredients needed.

1 bar grated Fels Naptha soap 1 cup of Borax 1 cup of (arm and hammer) washing soda

Step 1. Grate your bar of soap into your pot.

Step 2. Pour one gallon water into pot with grated soap. Cook until the grated soap dissolves.

Step 3. Add the Borax and washing soda. Bring to a boil. It will coagulate.

Step 4. Turn off the heat. Add 1 gallon of cold water. Stir well.

Step 5. Pour into your container.

Now you have 2 gallons of homemade laundry detergent. I use 1/2 to 1 cup per load depending on how dirty you clothes are. With the prices of detergent being outrageous, I feel really happy every time I make a batch of this.

The Best part: Cost per load is approximately .04!!