Homemade Laundry Detergent

In the spirit of Laura Ingalls, with wash day being Monday, here's a little recipe for homemade laundry detergent you can use tomorrow, Monday!

wash on Monday
iron on Tuesday
mend on Wednesday
churn on Thursday
clean on Friday
bake on Saturday
rest on Sunday

from Little House in the Big Woods
* I use these utensils for detergent making only. They all stay in the pot until I make a new batch.

You will need:

1 bar of soap (any kind you want)
1 cup of Borax
1 cup of washing soda
a big pot ( that holds more than 2 gallons)
a grater

a funnel
a long spoon
2 empty gallon jugs/containers

Grate your bar of soap into your pot.

Fill one gallon jug and pour water into pot with grated soap.

Cook until the grated soap dissolves.

Add the Borax and washing soda.

 

Bring to a boil. It will coagulate.

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

Pour 1 gallon of your detergent into each container.

A funnel helps tremendously.

Now you have 2 gallons of homemade laundry detergent. I use 1/2 cup per load (which I actually just use the old lid from my detergent bottles  to tell how much). With the prices of detergent being outrageous, I feel really happy every time I make a batch of this.

This won't make many, if any, suds. Suds don't equal clean. It took a while to get that into my head. This detergent cleans wonderfully!

Let me know if you make any or if you have any questions.

Happy washing!

If you don’t have a big enough pot to make this, then just half the recipe.
the issue of the detergent becoming too thick. Try using 1/2 of a bar of soap instead.
to add that the detergent should thicken / coagulate when it cools. Usually within 24 hours! ***
estimated cost is $6.00 for 576 loads (depending on soap used and amount used per load, One BOX of Borax and Washing soda)
The savings is incredible.

It's Christmas time, It's that time again!!!!

We had a service project for the teen's last saturday. We had donations given from different members at church of money for us to go shopping with to buy Christmas for 25 kids. We had a great time with the kids.

My Dad, Brother, and Uncle are coming to town tonight. So in attempt to get the house cleaned up and smelling like Thanksgiving, i decided to get my Christmas decorations and tree up. Have i said it a million times yet? I love This time of the Year!!!!

Everyone have a great Thanksgiving!!!

We hand feed the cows

Were having a blast getting to know everyone here in Texas. But im pretty sure madeline has been a little obsessed with the Wesson family. They are a very sweet family that we just adore. But almost every week we are with them either laughing and eating or feeding cows. Madeline loves going with Jeff and feeding the cows. She will even hand feed them(shes not afraid, but i am).

This is one of my fav's of feeding the cows!!!

This is Jaycee, We love her so much!!

I love when the leaves turn orange

Thot i would update with some recent pics of what we have been up too...

This is Alyssa Lane, we love her so much!! She's such a sweetie. Madeline was juliet from the movie gnome and juliet!!! And then theres Andrew!!

This is maddie trying to reach the very bottom toy in the toybox, she eventually fell in!!!

Here's madeline's first door on halloween night!! She was tangled!!

Maddie's first hay ride!!! (notice she's holding joshua's hand)

Catch up!!

Starting my blog back up, mainly for the purpose to share my recipes with my friends and family!! And well to keep ya updated with us, since i dont update on facebook as much anymore. Wow am i the only one who is going crazy bc next week is thanksgiving??? This year has gone by so fast. We have been so blessed this year. Were settled in to our new house and loving all the family we have thru the church. We have no blood family for 8 hours, but god has blessed us with wonderful people to be around and fill in as our family. Madeline is growing so much everyday. Everyday she amazes me with something new. just yesterday she was jumping on our bed and counting from 1-13. We have been keeping busy with the youth group and others. Last night i had a pampered chef party and tonight were going over to the Howards to eat dinner and visit. We love being with people and love having people over. Were very excited for my family coming in to visit for Thanksgiving, this will be there first time to see us since we moved in July.

Oreo's and Cheesecake!!!

Ok so i stumbled upon my old blog site.. and was super excited, bc i didnt have to make a new one!! I'm gonna start this thing up again and try to keep all my friends and family updated on how were doing and what were doing.

Well as you all know, we are settled in to our new home (YES OUR NEW HOME!! i love saying that) and adjusting well to Texas!!! I have had plenty of time for crafts and lots of cooking which is my favorite things to do!! Today i made Cookie and Creme Cheesecake Bites for the burger cook-out with our church friends tomorrow!! This recipe was so easy to make and well smelt good also, havent tasted yet:(. i'll post the link to the site i found it on!!!

http://www.handletheheat.com/2010/02/cookies-cream-cheesecake-cupcakes.html

Hope you have a special event to make these for just like i did!!!

coupon's

So today was my coupon matchup day!! Went to walmart and target and just walked the aisles to see whats on sale, and if i had a coupon for it. I found several things for free and things for $0.10. Today's sales werent the best, but still found a few things.

4pk of kleenex, no coupon just on sale $4.00
2 Lysol spray bottles $2.07, i paid $0.88 each
2 lysol refill bottles $2.07, i paid $0.88 each
clorox disinfecting wipes, $0.77
Lysol disinfecting wipes, $0.77
2 mens degree deodrant $0.97 each, i made $0.06 after coupons
2 womens degree deodrant $0.97 each, i made $0.06 after coupons
3 reach floss $0.88 each, i made $0.36 after coupons
Gain fabric sheets $1.87, i paid $0.87
3 Fixodent denture cleaners(for my dad:)) they were i think like $3.40 each and i paid $0.40 each
Glade automatic sense spray $7.89, i paid $1.00
2 Nivea body washes(1mens 1womens) FREE
1 hair brush. needed a new one, no coupon $5.00
1 bag of cheetos. no coupon, maddie was hungry $1.00

..............And for all that i paid like $11 something