Never thought I'd be THAT girl!

Thanks to Pinterest (which I'm totally addicted to) I've been doing things I never thought I'd do...like making my own laundry soap!  Talk about feeling domesticated!  LOL!  I've made two batches of liquid laundry soap (which totals 20 gallons) but I haven't felt like it's gotten our clothes as clean as I'd like so today I went out and bought all the stuff to try the powder detergent and I'm SUPER excited about it!  Who in the world gets excited about laundry soap?!?!  ME!  :)

I got this recipe from the blog: BeingCreativeToKeepMySanity (click on the link to be taken to her post) and I added 2 bottles of Gain scented laundry beads just because I'm a freak about wanting my clothes to smell good! 

At Walmart all I could find for Oxi-Clean was a 3 lb bucket or a 1.8 lb bucket so I just went with 3 lbs even though the other blogger suggested 3.5 lbs.  I bought the jar new today as well as the measuring spoons so my total today was around $35.  Next time I won't have to buy the jar & spoons so that will save me $14.  

I even got my son to help me!  :)  He grated most of the 3 bars of Fels-Naptha for me!  What a little stud he is!  We have a rule in our house that the tv is off from 9am-5pm so by offering to let him watch tv while he grated, there was no complaining whatsoever!  LOL!

This recipe FILLED the pretty jar!

All I have to use is 1-2 tbsp. in each load so this bad boy is gonna last me a LONG time!