Do you know the difference between being cheap and being frugal? Cheap is searching for the lowest price, frugal is searching for the best value. Copycat recipes are one of the ways that you can be both cheap and frugal at the same time. Many of the recipes are so good that it's hard to tell the … [Read more...]
Homemade Auto Cleaners for DIY Detailing
Nice weather has arrived, time to think about showing your car a little love. She's been through a lot this winter, blankets of snow, salty roads, muddy boots, if it's dirty, she's seen it. You could take her into see an auto detailing specialist but they're not going to show her as much love as you … [Read more...]
15 Homemade Furniture Cleaners that Manufacturers Don’t Want You to Know
It's time to gather up all of those cleaners that you've paid a small fortune for and begin the annual Spring cleaning ritual. This is my kids favorite time of year (insert sarcasm). We started ours last week, I wanted everything, well the downstairs anyways, to sparkle for the Easter bunny. There … [Read more...]
Replace Cleaning Products w/Homemade Multipurpose Cleaners
What is the most offensive question you can ask a stay-at-home-mom? "What do you do all day?" Basically they do everything that you have someone else doing for you or you never would've asked. Cooking, cleaning, running errands, wiping little noses, laundry, dishes, school functions, that's just a … [Read more...]
25 Ways to Clean Clothes for Less
FLUSTER: Overpriced Laundry Products If your someone who pays to have your laundry cleaned then there is no need to read further. This is for those of us that do the laundry ourselves and are annoyed with the high cost of laundry products. If you've ever wondered why laundry products are so … [Read more...]
15 Ways to Get a Cleaner Oven without Chemicals
FLUSTER: Chemical based oven cleaners. If you have a self cleaning oven consider yourself lucky! For those of us that don't have one we're left with two choices, don't clean it or use one of those expensive, stinky, burning, lung choking, environmentally unfriendly oven cleaners. Personally I used … [Read more...]
Save Money by Making Your Own Bathroom Cleaners
FLUSTER: The high cost of bathroom cleaning products. Do you know how much a year that you spend on bathroom cleaning products? If you've recently been down the cleaning isle then you have a pretty good idea - a lot. It's outrageous how much that we're being charged to have a cleaner sink, mirror, … [Read more...]
15 Homemade Cleaning Wipe Recipes
If you love the convenience of cleaning wipes then you are going to want to bookmark this page. We've got all your wipe needs covered; cleaner, disinfectant, conditioner, duster, polisher, shiner. You need something wiped, there's a recipe to cover it. I've been using wipes for years, they were … [Read more...]