Adam: Were you on Pintrest again today? That site is going to kill me.
The above conversation is a very typical one these days in our home. I have found, become addicted to and have tried a couple of things I have found Pintrest. I would like to thank Adam's sister, Natalie, for telling me about this wonderful Internet place where crafty minds converge. So far I have
- Baked s'mores brownies
- Made a cake stand out of clay pots
- Attempted to make a bracelet out of seed beads and safety pins
According to the article, you only need to use one to two tablespoons for a normal size load. I tend to believe this is true because the women who wrote the article has no children and does about the same amount of loads of wash a week that I do. She clearly states in the article that she is a Gain girl and is very picky about her wash method. It was like she was reading my mind when she stated the two top wash musts on my list: make it clean and make it smell good. After I read the ingredient list, I decided to brooch the subject with Adam. Of course the first words out of his mouth were "What for?". The second words were "Do you need money?". And the third? Yep, you guessed it "You were on Pintrest today, weren't you?". Like George Washington, I cannot tell lie. After I explained the simple process to him, he said he would hunt down a five gallon bucket for me to store the soap in.
So the next day, while at the local Giant, I collected all of my ingredients. They are now sitting very patiently on the kitchen table ready to become wash soap. I am very excited to try this out. Don't worry I'm not going o turn into Ms. Green overnight and walk around with matted dreads sticking out of my head. Dear God, next thing you know I'll be singing Kum Ba Ya while strumming my guitar...hardly! Not that we have to but because I want to see how much moola this will save me in the long run. Here is what I have figured out so far:
I use between a box to a box and a half of Tide a month, lets just say two boxes to make it easy. When I find it on sale a Target, a box is about $15.00. So $15.00 X 2 = $30.00 a month on wash soap. Now all the ingredients I need to make the homemade version only cost me $25.00. One of the ingredients needed is Purex fabric softener crystals for fragrance. After the mixture has been mixed, you are to use it out of the Purex bottle because it has a measuring device on the lid. According to the article, the author did forty loads and her Purex bottle is only about half empty! Surprised? I was.
My real test with this will be washing Adam's work clothes. For those of you who don't know, my honey is a commercial HVAC technician. He has met up with some very sooty and dirty oil boilers in his time, not to mention some very wet roof tops. His uniforms will put this homemade wash soap to the test for sure. According to him, it doesn't matter if his clothes are a little stained as long as they are clean. What? What kind of women would I be letting my man leave the house looking like he just crawled out from under a rock? Are you serious? His uniforms will be clean and stain free to the best of my ability. So if this soap can do it, I will sing its praises to whom ever I talk to. I will let it be known that saving money can be easy. I will also sing the praises of Pintrest to anyone that will listen. How else would I have known that an old floor model TV can become a cabinet? Or clay pots can become a cake stand and make someone smile on her 30th birthday? Or that making homemade wash soap can be so easy and affordable?
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