Frugal Goals: Five in Five

Well, this is my last goal post focussed on the next five weeks.  This one is all about saving a few pennies and learning more skills to save money in the future: To take time each day to explore Moneysavingmom blog.  I used to read Crystal's blog when she wrote under a different name (Biblicalwomanhood…

Home Making – Soap Nuts

Over the past year I have tried out many different recipes for home-made laundry soap.  We have very hard water and to be honest I wasn't that impressed with any of them.  At least I wasn't until this summer.  I had come across soap nuts during one of my forays into the world-wide web and…

Spar-Klean Science: Home-Made Washing Up Liquid

I've tried lots of recipes over the past few months and none have worked from an aesthetic point of view.  Sure they all cleaned, they all smelt gorgeous and very lacking in chemicals and they were all kind to sensitive hands.  Thing was, they were scummy.  Or at least they left a nasty scummy water…