Easy Breezy Glass Cleaner

Today's adventure was to make homemade glass cleaner. I have been out of glass cleaner for the last month and I haven't had any free or cheap deals on it. (I know I could go to the dollar store and buy knock off Windex for $1...but that's no fun). So I decided to be frugal and make my own!

I used an old cleaning bottle for my glass cleaner.
Here's the list:
2 cups of water
1/2 cup of white distilled vinegar
5 drops of Dawn Dish soap

I funneled the ingredients directly into the bottle and shook it up. Literally, the project took 5 minutes...a few minutes to find the ingredients and then funnel into the container.

Literally, I have 6 cents invested in this with a coupon deal on vinegar (and I have vinegar leftover). I haven't paid for dish soap(Dawn) in at least 4 years...there are always coupon deals for this several times a year.



So it was time to try out the glass cleaner and I had the perfect 2 year old helper. We used newspaper instead of paper towels ..my mom always uses newspaper over paper towels because it leaves less streaks! As a family we are trying to cut down of the use of paper towels, so this is another way to reuse a Sunday newspaper for cleaning. So we started cleaning the sliding glass door, shamefully who knows how long it had been since I cleaned it! It worked perfect and I know every ingredient in the glass cleaner, plus I had a great little helper!

I found this project on Pinterest and doubled the ingredient list:
http://thefrugalgirls.com/?s=homemade+glass+cleaner

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Easy to make Fabric Softener

So I have been curious for awhile to try making my own fabric softener. We tackled laundry detergent, so I thought I would try a simple recipe I found on Pinterest.

Get this only 3 ingredients. I actually only have 31 cents invested in a gallons worth of fabric softener thanks to some coupon deals. I bought white vinegar at Target a month ago for 6 cents each and I paid .25 cents for Suave hair products recently at Walgreens.

You will need:

6 cups of water

3 cups of white vinegar

2 cups of hair conditioner

Mix the ingredients in a bowl with a wisk. I used a funnel to place the fabric softener into a gallon size container. I had an old refillable liquid soap container that I am using for mine. I just used the same amount  that I normally would when using Downy. I just added a cute label so no one gets confused on what is in it(I need to fix the spelling on the container...opps!). I have done 3 loads of laundry so far and I think it is working great. I could smell the scent of green apples when I changed the laundry from the washer to the dryer. I love this cheap idea for fabric softener!

I found this on One Good Thing by Jillee on Pinterest

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Blueberry Zucchini Bread

This is our favorite zucchini bread to make and eat at our house. With the abundance of zucchini from the garden we have adapted a recipe that we all love at the Chapman's house. This recipe is also perfect to freeze. The recipe makes 2 loaves or 5 mini loaves. I made one loaf to freeze and 1 to take to the beach to have for breakfast or a late night snack while watching the Olympics.

Blueberry Zucchini Bread

Ingredients:

3 Large Eggs

1 cup of Applesauce

3 tsp of Vanilla

2 cups of Sugar

2-2 1/2 cups of shredded Zucchini

3 cups of All-Purpose Flour

1 tsp Salt

1 tsp Baking Powder

1/2 tsp of Baking Soda

1 Tbs Cinnamon

1/2 tsp of Nutmeg (optional)

1-2 cups of Blueberries

1 Banana (optional)

Heat oven to 350 degrees. Spray 2 loaf pans or 5 mini pans. In a bowl, mix eggs, applesauce, vanilla, and sugar. Slowly add the shredded zucchini. Mix in flour, salt, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Stir in blueberries. Optional: Add a smashed banana to the recipe. Pour the mixture into the 2 loaf pans or 5 mini pans. Bake 50 mins. - 1 hour (Mini pans may only take 45 mins.). Use a toothpick to make sure the center is done. I always let my pans cool on a wire rack for about 30 mins. and then I take them out of the pan to cool. If I am going to freeze the loaf then I will wrap in foil and then put in a labeled freezer safe bag for the freezer or I have bought $1 foil pans from the dollar store to cook and freeze the bread (see picture above). The metal pans are perfect to give to friends!

The recipe was adapted from a recipe we found on Pinterest:

 http://realmomkitchen.com/91/blueberry-zucchini-bread/

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Sunday Deals

We ran a few deals after church today! Here are some of my favorite deals of the day! I'm loving the Kellogg's/ Coke deals at Harris Teeter ( buy 4 of select items and get $4 off your order).

My son and classroom loves fruit snacks so I will be buying more for this price. 4 Boxes of Kellogg's fruit snacks for a total of $1.47! I used 2 coupons out of today's paper (8/5/12)

Fruit snacks were on sale $2 a box. Total=$8

-$4 instant Kellogg's deal

-(2) $0.75 coupon that double to $3 off.

Total=$1 plus tax

 

My favorite deal of the day is on cereal...I love love cereal! Personally, I think it can be the perfect meal anytime of day. I refuse to pay more than $1 per box of cereal. Today I bought 7 boxes of cereal for a total of $1.07.

3 boxes of Cinnamon Raisin Bran, 1 box of Crunchy Nut, 3 Boxes of Cheerios.

Kellogg's deal -$4,

3 coupons for Raisin Bran that doubled,

1 Harris Teeter coupon Zvr for Raisin Bran,

3 coupons for Cheerios that doubled,

1 Register Reward for .99 that doubled from Walgreens

= $1.07 Sweet Deal for cereal!

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