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Purex 3-in-1 Laundry Sheets Make Laundry Easier!

February 23, 2010 By Elizabeth

This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of Purex. All opinions are 100% mine. Laundry has never been my favorite chore. I'm not a big fan of lugging heavy laundry baskets up and down the basement stairs, not to mention huge jugs of laundry detergent and fabric softener. I think back to all those years, before Chris and I were homeowners, when we hauled our laundry to laundromats, back and forth carrying clothes and supplies. All those years I lived in college dorms, running back and forth to the laundry room, having to bum rides to Target to buy laundry detergent. Ugh. Whomever the person was who came up with the idea for the Purex 3-in-1 Laundry Sheet, they should get a FREAKING MEDAL. It is pure genius, people. Each sheet is embedded with laundry detergent and a heat-activated strip that contains fabric softener and an anti-static. Toss one sheet in with a regular-sized load of laundry, then transfer the sheet along with the clothes to the dryer. Doing a small load of … [Read more...]

Tightwad Gazette Recipe for Laundry Stains

July 11, 2009 By Elizabeth

Have any of you read the Tightwad Gazette books?Â They are a compilation of six years of newsletters written by Amy Dacyczyn (rhymes with "Decision"), who called herself the Frugal Zealot.Â A housewife living in Maine with her husband and their four (?) children, Amy's newsletter dispensed tips on ways to REALLY save money, to really stretch a dollar. In her newsletters, Amy wrote about everything from taking a mostly empty jelly jar and filling it with water, shaking, and pouring the liquid into popsicle molds for homemade popsicles, to tearing colored-in pages out of garage-sale or trash-picked coloring books before presenting them as birthday gifts. All six years of newsletters were compiled into one big book, The Complete Tightwad Gazette for around $16.00, which is a great deal for so much info. I didn't subscribe to the newsletter, but when the first compilation book came out, I bought it and preceeded to dog-ear just about every page. She did extensive tests on … [Read more...]