Five Ways and More to Get Free Cleaning Supplies It takes very little skill to get free cleaning supplies. The best talent for discovering bargains is attentiveness. You already know the manufacturers that produce the brands you prefer. The vast array of couponing methods in today’s technical world literally puts savings at your fingertips with apps on your Smartphone or iPhone.
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How to Make Your Own Laundry Detergent at a 90% Discount
DIY Laundry Detergent – How to Make Your Own Laundry Detergent at a 90% Discount Let’s face it; laundry is a chore everyone has to do. The choices for laundry detergent are considerable in the laundry detergent aisle. You can find pricey detergents that may cost up to $20 or more and you can find cheap detergents that cost just a few bucks. The more expensive detergents aren’t necessarily better than the mid-priced detergents. The cheaper detergents may not be that good. Regardless you end up spending money on keeping the laundry clean. There is a better solution if you take the time to DIY and make your own DIY laundry detergent.
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Don’t Buy the Draino! Clear Your Drain Naturally
Don’t Buy The Draino! Clear A Drain Naturally Draino is full of harsh chemicals and when you use it on your drains you run the risk of being burned. Not only is it dangerous for it to make contact with your skin, but the fumes are also dangerous. You have to keep pets and children away from the bottle and the drains while in use. Draino is absolutely dangerous and even deadly to small children should they ingest it. It is better for everyone in the home if you use natural methods to clear the drain. Another important aspect of clearing a drain is in prevention.
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Cleaning out your garden shed the green way
It’s not as simple as just getting together your old junk and throwing them in a big trash bin; there are various green protocols you should consider
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Weekly wrap-up: Green clean and money-saving shopping
Green cleaning including stain-fighting, and how to save money by being prepared … but not too prepared.
Save Energy By Cleaning Your Dryer Vent
How Do You Clean?
This morning, I came home and found that my house could use a bit of sprucing up. I try to keep things orderly, but as anyone who lives anywhere probably knows, I’m fighting a losing battle. In the past, I’ve tried a variety of methods to keep the house clean. Some worked very well; others were not so productive. At one point, Mr. Cheap and I posted a chart of chores on the wall so we could see what had been done, which was a good tool when we first began living together, to help us learn what needed to be done.
Natural Ways To Eliminate Bugs
DIY Natural Deodorant
Make my own deodorant? The post sounded like the mysterious substance — made wholly from safe-for-the-kitchen, even edible, ingredients — was easy to create and might even work. To the kitchen!
Clear a slow drain naturally
When a drain stops draining like it’s supposed to, the un-natural among us haul out the Drano. But there IS a better, cheaper and more natural way to get the lead (or lead-like sludge) out of a drain.
Friday wrap-up: Swine flu edition
This week, the world is alight with rumors and fear about swine flu. It’s especially timely for me to write about it, because our household has recently increased our knowledge about germs. About swine flu
Make Swiffer WetJet And Sweeper Cheaper And Greener
Last week, I finally broke down and Swiffered. Now, I’m looking for ways to make the Swiffer process a bit greener.
Sweater storage
Spring is just around the corner. That means it’s time to go through the closet, trade winter clothes for summer ones, and store away old sweaters. It’s also a great time for a flurry of cleaning, getting rid of what you don’t need to make room for a fresh season. Storing sweaters
How to hang out laundry
Spring is here, and it’s a great time for all of us to create backyard replicas of those classic springtime images of clean clothes whipping dry on a clothesline. (Why is there no ACTUAL image today? I tried, but the camera is not cooperating.)
Wrap-up: Save money with DIY, organic coupons
Some good ideas around the Web this week for saving money and living naturally: Real Simple’s money-saving March Wise Bread wrote about some of the ideas in this month’s issue of Real Simple for saving money. Some of them don’t seem very frugal to me (there’s absolutely no way I would consider meat that costs $5.99 a pound a “bargain,” especially if it’s not even natural/organic), but others are worth a look.
Get out blood stains (and sweat, wine and more)
Last weekend, Little Cheap got a bloody nose at a friend’s house. She brought home with her a shirt splashed with blood stains that had sat overnight. Yikes …. Luckily, hydrogen peroxide came to the rescue.
