Homemade Laundry Detergent Powder Recipe

Yes, I said homemade washing powder. It's a really easy to make provided you have a food processor. Grating is overrated!

This does not suds up in the washing machine - but it works.

You need Super Washing Soda (at Kroger), Borax (green box) and Fels-Naptha and Ivory (we have dirty people in my house).

One bar of Fels-Naptha and Ivory are chopped up into smaller pieces so the food processor can chop it more. Dump it in along with 1 cup each of Super Washing Soda and Borax. Turn it on and make powder. Depending on your food processor it make take about 3 minutes max of grinding. Pour it into a container. Make as much as you like.

You will need 1/4 cup in the wash - that's it. I also like to add blueing to the wash (I can't remember the lady's name but it is a blue bottle) to help the whites brighten instead of using bleach.

Try this out and let me know if it works!

The Washing Machine was broke but we fixed it for $35.00

I didn't really pay that much attention to the little river that the washing machine was putting out before Christmas. So I let it go - for about 2 months. Then one day, I decided to wash clothes and turned on the machine. A small river was running over my feet. Needless to say, the washing tub was not filling up. Hmmm, Kenmore, couldn't be that hard. "Honey, can you come down here???" Actually, he didn't have that far to go, he was already downstairs in his MAN CAVE (details later).

He came over to the machine and said, let's take it apart! Right....
About ten minutes later, parts flying, the water in the house turned off because our jacked up basement sink cut off valves don't work, we took apart the washing machine. The suspect part was a small plastic pump on the front of the machine. Cost - $18.00 on Amazon Marketplace!!! The part eventually showed up about three days later and we (ahem), I replaced it. It was too easy!!! Turned it on an no leaks!!!

Saved ourselves about $125.00 in parts and labor.....sorry Maytag repair man.

Currently it is working great!!!

Christmas Fleece Hats and why am I blogging? Boredom? Interest? Go figure....

I was sitting here the other day and figured out that I have some interesting thoughts or interesting things happen to me in the day and I just wonder if anyone else has some of these things happen to them. Maybe I'm nuts, maybe I'm normal but whatever the reason I figured this would be fun and provide others with interesting experiences, or at least something to think about. With this thought in mind, here we go.

This year Christmas was sparse to say the least. Since I am the only one working in the family, I try to make it fun and bearable for everyone else. This year I made hats and scarves out of fleece for the kids of the families. The hats were made out of fleece with the little pom pom on top for the little kids. The older kids hats were made without the pom pom. I also made scarves (no sew kind) and boas for the little girls. So far, there haven't been any bad reviews. Maybe next year, we will do the same thing! Here is the link to the pattern I used Reversible Fleece Hat Pattern or Fleece Hat Pattern . These worked out the best for me.

Prom dresses, etc... look out world.