Dawn’s House

Tide vs. Homemade Laundry Detergent: A Stain Test

Well, you can’t be on Pinterest or read mom blogs for too long without coming across recipes for homemade laundry detergent. So as my Tide pods were running low, I decided to give it a try. After a little research, I landed on this recipe because it was the prettiest (and also got great reviews by the commenters). However, after using it for a couple weeks, I wasn’t convinced it was working well, so I wanted to put it to the test.

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The one trick to keeping my house clean

I’ve read them all. Every tip, trick, list, and suggestion on Pinterest to keep my house clean so that I am not embarrassed if someone were to drop by and expect to come in. The problem was, until I changed my mindset about my messy house, no tip in the world could help. The FlyLady website was extremely helpful in learning how stressful clutter is and how happy a clean home really is for my family and I.
I also began to realize that it was one of those things that was just going to take consistent effort. So a couple years down the road, with a pretty consistently clean house, here is the only trick that I have found:

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