Showing posts with label laundry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label laundry. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 6, 2011

My own reasons for buying local

Remember this...?  (I bought it at urbancraftuprising)


Well, I'm almost out.  It is wonderful stuff.  It took me awhile to get used to pouring out the liquid (without making a mess), but I think I finally got used to it. 

Why do I like it so much?  Well...
#1.  It works just as well as other dryer sheets.  I'm not sure how it could work better. 
The thing is, I've used Bounce for years...probably since college days.  The other day, I was doing laundry with my eyes barely open and decided to use Bounce instead of my liquid stuff.  I pulled the Bounce down off the shelf, opened up the box, and was almost bowled over by the smell of it.  It smells super strong, and weirdly, super chemically. 
#2.  My liquid stuff does not smell like chemicals.

So, I decided to order some more.  While I was paying for shipping, I included some unscented laundry soap.  I haven't had a chance to use that yet as my Tide is still 1/4 full.  Believe me though, I'm excited.

Never have I been so excited to open my package of laundry soap:


In it was a thank-you card.  A thank you card!!!!!!  What?!?!  Can you imagine buying a box of Cheerios and having a hand-written card inside?  Umm...no.  Never. 


I got a free snack bag just for ordering.  How cool is that?


Here's a picture of my laundry soap.  They don't have the same scented soap as my dryer sheet system so I went with unscented.


Anyways, if you want a thank-you card just for buying soap, go to pepperjackhome.com

No, I didn't receive any compensation for writing this.  I'm just an impressed consumer.

As a side note, I came home one day to my plants from my plant stand on the floor and Atticus looking guilty in the corner.  Nothing a little vacuum and paper towels couldn't fix.  I found a broken stem to my angel wing plant on the floor and decided to put it in water to see what would happen....


Another week or two and I'll plant it!!! 

Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth.
~ Horace Walpole

Friday, January 29, 2010

first post ever

i feel like i should say something momentous about all of this, but all i can think of are cliches. my sisters and my mom all thought i should create a blog, and with their support i thought i'd try it out.

my project from yesterday...


BEFORE:





AFTER:





yay for a new laundry hamper!!

heres a little backstory: i dont have a hamper. i have one lowly laundry basket that should be filled with dirty clothing (the purpose of one) but instead is usually filled with clean clothing, waiting to be put away. in actuality, i use it much like a dresser: i take my clean clothes out of the laundry basket, one by one, whenever i need them. i have a real dresser, and i have a closet, but i just dislike putting away laundry. when i need my laundry basket for something important (i put my guinea pig in it when i clean her cage), then all the clean laundry goes on top of my dresser. which annoys me at night because i have to dig out my alarm clock. my dirty clothing more often than not is thrown straight into the washer where i have to dig it all out later and sort. *sigh*

sounds like i have issues, i know. i'm hoping that this laundry hamper will solve part of my laundry problem. my other issues i'll have to figure out in time....

oh, and the idea for this came from multiple other peoples blogs and ideas etc. but i came up with my own pattern and my own design.

ehh....dont know if i'm supposed to say anything else. this was all relatively painless. we'll see about tomorrow...

"Everything is right. Everything works out right. Everything fades from sight. Because thats alright with me." ~ 'I am a scientist', Guided by voices