I love to make my own homemade cleaning products– they are not only SUPER FRUGAL, they work great and keep all those nasty toxins out of my homestead!
Scrubbing Cleanser
Fill a pint or quart size canning jar about ¾ full of baking soda (if you have heavy stains, make a 1/4 of it Borax) and use a straw or butter knife to create holes in the baking soda for essential oils. (You could also dump your baking soda/oils in, in layers– you just want to make sure that your oils get mixed into the baking soda really well–no clumps!)
Dump in around 20 drops of lavender essential oil (or tea tree, lemon, or orange–or a combo of your favorites!), put the lid on and shake well. Then use a small nail to punch about five decent sized holes in the lid; you‘ll have your own ―shaker of cleaner that contains NO chlorine or chemicals and works even better than the smelly commercial version!
I use this to scrub my stainless steel kitchen sink, bathroom sinks, and our shower with one of those old green scrubbie pads.
~Lisa
I recently was blessed with a bag of organic onions– a 10 pound bag! As always, I want to use what a I can fresh and preserve the rest so none goes to waste! I noticed that a few of them were going bad–and so I needed to preserve them quicker than I had planned!
I decided the simplest way for me at the time was to just get them cleaned up, cut up and into the dehydrator! It is so simple to make up your own dried minced onion or even onion powder!
Since we were getting low on onion powder, I went ahead and went that route– it is so EASY!
Just dehydrate your onions…
once they are super nice and dry I put them into my blender …..
and whirl them until they are in a fine powder- done. I store everything in canning jars– and did so with this powder too.
It really is THAT easy– a great way to stock the pantry when you are blessed with produce!
Happy Homekeeping!
~Lisa
If you have some unused hangers– this is a great idea! I use clothespins on opened bags too…hey, it works. lol
The perfect, frugal, chip clip! I love it (and would of never thought of it!)!
~Lisa
