Last week was a busy one for us- on Friday night and all day Saturday we were doing a table at the Maple Syrup Festival. That meant I had lots of stuff around the house to get done before then. Tuesday was laundry day. After I got the kids clothes washed, I was almost out of detergent. This was Zach's first time helping me make laundry soap. There's not much to it and it doesn't take very long to make, and it cleans just as well as the soap I buy. It is a low sudsing (is that a word?) formula so it works in my "he" washer. Zach thought he was big stuff pouring the soap into the funnel and into the jugs for me and then he carried the warm detergent down to the laundry room for me. After I make it, it costs me next to nothing to do laundry - 1/3 of a bar of soap, 1/2 cup washing soda, 1/2 cup borax, and water makes about 2 1/2 gallons of laundry detergent.....it can't get much more simple than that! I still haven't totally won Mike over on my home made soap yet. This weekend he brought home detergent from the grocery store- ugggghhh.
We had a good sale at the festival and sold about 100 bows to go towards our adoption fund and we did a 50/50 Raffle. We're plugging away at saving, slowly but surly.
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