laundry

this post is dedicated to my friend, kate! (check out her great blog) laundry takes over my life...it's a bad cycle i get myself into. i start a load, dry it, move it to the bed, start more loads, dry them and move them to the bed...and i NEVER fold them one at a time.

so a lot of times my bed looks like this:

each night we have to move the laundry to the floor or table and then it gets moved back to the bed the next day when i am cleaning. after about 4 days of this process i either have to put on a movie and psych myself up to fold laundry OR my sweet hubby gets frustrated enough and folds all 80 loads! it's really not a good thing. i have been trying very hard lately to stay on top of my laundry...one load at a time! :)

so in the light of laundry, let me tell you about me making our laundry detergent. yes, that's right i made it! i visited my friend kelly and she made hers and i really liked it. we had to wash about 6 loads in the 22 hours we were there because samuel got the stomach virus. :( anyway, check out her blog post about how to do it.

i do love a good, strong detergent smell but i love saving my money on things like detergent. so i was willing to give it a try. i bought some nice softener sheets to add a little scent. or if you like the clean only smell you wouldn't have to use anything.

the ingredients below: (i was going to double the recipe but i quickly learned that grating 4 bars of soap was enough for one evening!) i found the same soap as kelly used so i bought it. i had to go to drug emporium to find all my ingredients.

my finished project! i bought this cute jar at target to hold my detergent. the amount below cost me about $10. i think it will yield about a 140 loads.

i love the thought that i made my own detergent...so granola-y of me! which if you know me, you know i am not really like that. but when it's available and easy, why not!?