Challenges!

Between looking for a new house, and trying to make all the stuff that my wife has on Pintrest, I came up with a brilliant idea.

I have created a new board on my Pintrest account for blog challenges, so I can make stuff that you guys find on Pintrest, and post the results. 

Most likely, I will fail horribly. COMEDY GOLD. 

I already put a couple of ideas that I'm going to start on next week, so please feel free to send me links to pins, or mention me in the comments of any pins you would like me to add to the board and fail miserably at.

http://pinterest.com/sooperjeenyus/blog-challenges/

For the love of Pete, nothing that I have to buy stuff for. I'm broke enough as it is. 

That's MR. Susie Housewife to you!

My wife is a Pintrest addict. She spends hours sifting through other people's boards for neat stuff to "pin" to her boards. She even has a board dedicated to all the dudes she wants to get with....besides me.

So, when she sent me this recipe for homemade laundry detergent to save a few bucks, I decided to hitch up my apron and give it a shot.

I am going to break down the recipe as follows: (all prices are from Amazon.com, because I'm not let out of the house to go shopping.)

1 - 3 lb. container OxyClean - $9.39

3 bars - 16.5 oz (total) Fels-Naptha bars - $11.97 total

1 - 4 lb. box Borax - $11.59

1 - 3 lb. 7 oz. box Arm & Hammer Washing Soda - $8.76

1 - 4 lb. box Arm & Hammer Baking Soda - $8.39

1 - 13.2 oz Downy Unstoppables scent booster - $9.29

Total spent - $59.39. Crazy, right?!?! Who in their right minds spends 60 bucks on laundry soap?

Total weight - 16 lbs. 2.7 oz

Suggested usage - 1 tablespoon, which equals 1/32 of a pound.

Total loads by weight - 517.4

I'm never going to have to buy laundry soap EVER AGAIN!

by the way, you can follow my boards on Pinterest here.