Week 3 of No Paper Towels 4 Week Frugal Challenge

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2 weeks ago I challenged you to do away with paper towels for 4 weeks.  Even with a small allowance of paper towels for sanitary reasons, I hope you’ve been able to significantly reduce your paper towel usage. If you’ve taken my challenge and begun using rags instead of paper towels, how’s it going? Has your family revolted or have you found they don’t really care one way or the other?   Have you had your first smelly rag moment?  {Read More}

4 Week Frugal Challenge – Giving Up Paper Towels

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Last week I challenged you to cut all paper towel usage from your household.  It’s understandable that when you handle raw meats one may be necessary, but other than those few, try to get your family on board by using rags or wash cloths. It’s not hard for the average family of 4 to use 59 paper towels per day! Based on the cheapest brand of paper towels I could find on amazon when bought in a 30 roll package, {Read More}

4 Week Frugal Challenge – March 2013

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If I were Martha Stewart, I might say “Paper towels are a good thing”. While I’m most certainly NOT as creative/able to cook/organized as Martha, I do agree.  The use disposable items has greatly reduced disease and sickness.  It’s also eased the workloads of many women. However, disposable products have also raised expenses, increased waste and added one more stop at the grocery store (plus one more item to load and unload). Just how bad is it? I tried to research the {Read More}

Make Your Own Tide 4 Week Frugal Challenge Ending

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We made liquid Tide this morning in our Couponing for the Kingdom Bible study .  It seemed that nearly everyone had thought about making their own detergent before, but had never done it.  Most everyone was surprised by the consistency of the finished detergent (and agreed that most young children would love to help with the flubber). We talked about how like any detergent you use, you may need to use more to get your clothes clean, or you may {Read More}

Did Your Homemade Laundry Detergent Work Well For You?

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My current 4 week frugal challenge is to make your own laundry detergent and give it a try. (for more than just one or two loads)  The cost to buy the base ingredients is around $10, but you will be able to make 7 or 8 batches of detergent from them. The laundry bar will cost about $1 and if you choose to use your favorite brand name (premade) detergent you’ll need about 1/4  of a 32 load bottle. You’ve got my personal recipe {Read More}

Video Tutorial – Make Your Own Tide – 4 Week Frugal Challenge

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I hope you made it to the store last week to pick up borax, washing soda, baking soda and a laundry soap bar.  Today I’ve got a video to show you step by step how I make my detergent.  Please forgive my appearance, I was feeling a bit bummy yesterday <iframe width=”648″ height=”486″ src=”//www.youtube.com/embed/hiBAE3pJ268?rel=0″ frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen></iframe> It took 45 mins to make the detergent, and less than 10 mins to add the scenting/bluing and bottle it.  Keep in mind I {Read More}

Make & Use Your Homemade Laundry Detergent – 4 Week Frugal Challenge

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It’s time for a new frugal challenge.  For the next 4 weeks I want to challenge you to make and use your own laundry detergent.  I am a Tide girl, and I now make my own- so there’s proof that it’s good quality stuff!  You can make the equivalent of 300 oz of detergent in about an hour’s time for less than $2!  The cost to make this size batch like Tide is about $5.50 (compared to $40 to buy {Read More}

Always Be Looking Ahead for Future Needs – 4 Week Frugal Challenge

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The goal blocks I showed you last week have been the most help to me in this challenge so far. I leave them sitting right by my computer monitor and my rice jar that’s also to help me make my goals a priority.  But just like my house, it’s so easy to take a look at my goals and say “everything looks ok, I think I’ll take a break”.  Trust me, it gets me every time. Before I know it {Read More}

Goal Blocks – Visual & Manipulative Tool – 4 Week Frugal Challenge

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Last Tuesday I shared with you my personal goals. The past two weeks I’ve accomplished a lot around the house, on my blogs and personally.  Now, don’t get me wrong- I’ve had my bad days where I didn’t do too much, but overall I feel like I’ve done pretty good for me.  I’ve also had plenty of time for playing games, visiting with friends and watching TV. Partly it’s because I’ve been more determined than ever before to do better.  {Read More}

Goal Setting and 15 Minute Priorities – 4 Week Frugal Challenge

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Last week I challenged you to set some goals and devote at least 15-20 minutes daily towards those goals.  Like the rice jar, if you wait until the end of the day, you’ll give up because it’s too hard to fit it in.  But if you devote time to working on your goals early in the day you’ll find you still have plenty of time for all the other things you want to accomplish. You may be wondering why I {Read More}