I’m not going to lie, the past week or so has been kind of poopy, and I’ve let it deter me from keeping up with writing on here. Sorry about that my readers, let me make up for it with new and exciting things I’ve come up with.
I’ve been using my homemade laundry detergent, and I haven’t found any differences from store bought. Everyone was so excited when I told them how easy it was, I’m betting A & H Washing Soda and Borax will be flying off the shelves. I read a little deeper into the original article to find out about High Efficiency washers. If you have this type of machine, you can simply make a dry mix from the soda, borax and grated soap and use a tablespoon or two per load. Even easier than my globbity gloop!
The carpet in my hallway is quite interesting now! With that $2.16 ginormous box of baking soda I mistakenly bought, I’ve been using it in as many ways as possible. The hallway gets quite a bit of traffic, and my furkid Goo decided it was a good place to throw up. Usually the Resolve carpet spot cleaner gets it right out, but there was still a spot left after I treated it. Out came the box of baking soda! I poured on a good layer and scrubbed it with a brush and a bit of water. Now the spots I’ve treated are back to the original color of the carpet, and glaringly obvious I need to clean the whole damn thing. Luckily, I don’t have much planned this weekend, ha ha! I’ve also put baking soda down the smelly drains, in the bottom of the trash can to absorb the odor, in the cat litter box, and out in the garage where there is a mysterious wet spot.
Now for my most exciting accomplishment of late! I opened a high yield saving account at my credit union. 3% may not seem like “high yield”, but it is the highest savings rate I could find anywhere. The catch is, the CU wants you to use it as a short term emergency savings account, so the 3% is only good up to $500. Well, I already have an established emergency fund that we both automatically contribute to, so how will I fund this new account? It took me a couple days to come up with the answer… whatever I save on groceries gets transferred to the new account. We have a weekly budget of $85 for food and household supplies, which is really quite a lot for just two people. I cook most of our meals, saving us a bunch of money on eating out. We started to plan meals better, so that we can shop the sales, and I recently started couponing. Last week, we only spent $62.50 on groceries, woo hoo!
That’s what I’ve been up to. Peace out!