HOMEMADE SAVINGS

   This glass cleaner really works it smells like windex when yuo use it but as soon as the alcohol evaporates the odor is gone. I use it on my oven and microwave doors as well as mirrors and glass. Windex costs about $3.00 and I can make glass cleaner for 26 cents.


Mix in a sprayer bottle:

1 cup rubbing (isopropyl) alcohol
1 cup water
1 tablespoon white vinegar

   Porcelain sinks and tubs, Stainless steel kitchen sink, this stuff is great!

I mix mine in an empty ketchup/mustard squirt bottle that has been cleaned out really good.I haven't bought this stuff in a pretty long time, I will check my numbers next time I go to the store but I found it online for $2.00 for a 12 oz bottle.  I can make a 12 oz bottle for about the same price at home and not have to worry about the harsh smell or chemicals. I am working on another recipe that will not use castile soap and should be well under $1.00

2/3 cup water
1/4 cup castille soap  I have Dr Bronners brand
1 2/3 cup baking soda
2 tblspoons vinegar

Now we all know what happens when you mix vinegar and baking soda, be ready for it, put those 2 things in first and make sure the container is large enough for the foam up that WILL  happen.

   I cannot believe how easy and effective this recipe is. My wood is beautiful and dust free.

Mix in a sprayer bottle:

1 cup olive oil
1/2 cup lemon juice

Add to spray bottle and shake well before each use.
 


Pledge 16 oz costs about $4.00 per bottle and because it is an aerosol I think it gets used much quicker than a regular squirt spray bottle does.  16 oz of homemade furniture polish costs about $1.50 and lasts at least twice as long in my house.

• Borax 76 ounce box (9.5 cups)  $4.79  152 loads of laundry or dishwasher loads
• Arm and Hammer Super Washing Soda (not baking soda)55 ounce box (6.875 cups)  $3.79 110 loads of laundry or dishwasher loads
• 1 Lemon (4-5 TBS juice) $1.00- the better deal is to buy bottled lemon juice 1 bottle of cleaner
• White Distilled Vinegar 1 gallon (16 cups)  $1.99 32 months of dishwasher rinse agent or  10.67 bottles of fabric softener
• baking soda 16 oz (2 cups) $1.00 32 dishwasher loads
• Fels Naptha Soap 1 bar 5.5 oz (1.33 cups) $1.99 36-42 loads of laundry
• Ivory soap 10 pack , each bar 3.1 oz (1 cup per bar of soap) $3.75 320 loads of laundry
• Olive oil 17 oz bottle(2 cups) $2.00 2 bottles of homemade pledge furniture polish
• Lemon Juice 32 oz bottle (4 cups) $1.99 4 bottles of pledge homemade furniture polish or 16 bottles of cleaner and disinfectant.
• Hydrogen Peroxide 32 oz bottle (4+ cups) $1.00
• Rubbing Alcohol 32 oz bottle (4+ cups) $1.00
• Water FREE!
• Dr Bonners Castile Soap (4+ cups) $14.99 I use very little of this to make shampoo, some dish soap, and soft scrub it lasts a really long time. 

Spray bottles and squeeze bottles- reusable you can also recycle those that you have bought with cleaners in them. $1.00 each for empty bottles.

  I love this one Jetdry costs 4-5 dollars and needs to be refilled on a monthly basis for homes that do about 1 load of dishes a day, I had to fill mine once every week or two. So I averaged between 8 and 20 dollars on jetdry.

   For arguments sake we will say I only spent the 4 dollars a month on jet dry. The homemade version only costs 12 cents per month and leaves the dishes clean fresh and spot free. This saves me $3.78 cents a month or $45.36 a year



1 cup of white distilled vinegar (added to jetdry dispenser) 1.99 per gallon at Save-A-Lot

  When you have a 7 person household, 6 of which are home all day it can generate a lot of dishes. I do not exaggerate when I say we do at least 2 full dishwasher loads a day, sometimes as many as 4. I used to buy Electrasol, now called Finish, or Cascade because I felt they did a better job of cleaning than the store brands. Electrasol costs 19 cents per load of dishes if you did not add to the prewash dispenser. Cascade costs 24 cents per load if you did not add to the prewash. The homemade detergent costs 2 cents per load of dishes. I save up to 88 cents a day or $321.20 a year.




1 Cup borax costs 4.79 for 76 oz box
1 Cup baking soda costs 45 cents/box
Add 1 tablespoon to washing compartment. 

   No one likes to get shocked while trying to pull their socks off of the towels. I am also sure that no one likes paying the price of fabric softener. Here is a recipe for homemade fabric softener that really works great.

1 part baking soda-added to laundry soap (I do not add this when I use my homemade detergent which is half baking soda)
1 part white vinegar- added to fabric softener ball or dispenser
2 parts water- added to fabric softener ball or dispenser
drop of essential oil

  If you are like me and do not want to have to mix this concoction up for every load it is easy to make in bulk and stores well. 

  I use an empty fabric softener bottle (44 ounces) and add
3 cups of water
1.5 cups of white distilled vinegar
1/4 to 1/2 tsp of essential oil (optional for fragrance only) I really like vanilla for the laundry

Add 1/2 cap full to fabric softener ball  or fabric softener dispenser.



































I bought this gallon of vinegar at Dollar General for about $2.50 I have since found it for less at Save-A-Lot grocery stores for $1.99 a gallon. The water is basically free and the empty softener bottle we will count at free. The only other cost is optional. I bought my fragrance oils at Walmart they were about 5 dollars a bottle but since you are using 1/4 tsp at a time I think they may actually last forever.

  Fabric softener (cheap brands) on average costs about $3.65 for a 52 load bottle. The cost of the homemade version is 19 cents or a penny more if you use the fragrance oil. I normally purchased 2 bottles of fabric softener a month so I saved at least $75.84 cents a year in fabric softener.