I had a revelation this week.  Yes Blog, I realized that at this time of year I have some considerable time on my hands that I normally dwindle away infront of the computer and call it ‘working’.  Admitting you have an illness is the first step right?  Well I’m addicted to my computer.  My workspace. My little corner of the world. Literally, I work in the corner of my bedroom. Glamourous non?

Now that I’ve recognized my addiction, I have been able to move past it.  I not only joined a gym (on a trial basis, never sign a contract!) but I’ve GONE! and I decided to make everything that I could make at home, at home, instead of buying it.  Which brings me to this post.  Dirty Laundry.  I have mounds of it. Piled high atop my laundry basket carefully balanced in one corner of my bedroom; one more dirty sock could send the whole thing crashing down on me.  It’s like that pile of garbage Homer Simpson had.

It all began when I happened to turn on The View last week and saw the Duggar’s; a family of 20 who…wait for it…do 40 loads of laundry a month!  She makes her own laundry detergent.  Make laundry detergent? The end result looks and smells exactly like any regular laundry detergent. At the grocery store, I picked up a bottle of *Green* detergent on sale for $9.99 (enough for 43 loads) but for the same $9.99 I could buy all the ingredients below that would wash hundreds of loads. Read on Blog!  P.S. read the comments for a cost analysis…

There are only 3 ingredients:

1.  A bar of soap.  You can use actual ‘laundry soap’ that you find in any grocery store (in the laundry aisle), but I went with Ivory (with a faint hint of lavender).

2. 1/2 cup of Washing Soda. Sounds complicated, but it was right next to the laundry soap in the grocery store.  Trust me, if Newfoundland has it, you can get it anywhere.

3. 1/2 cup of Borax.  Yes Blog, Borax!  It’s a million years old and as good as ever.

P.S. if you follow the above recipe you won’t end up with as much as my finished product since I doubled all the ingredients, so I wouldn’t have to make it as often.

Now what? You start by grating the soap.  That’s right….get grating!

Now throw all 3 ingredients into a food processor and pulse until it’s very fine!  I used my trusty Magic Bullet which almost blew a gasket.  A regular food processor won’t have any troubles, however.

That’s it!  The finished product:

Use about 1 tablespoon per load.  Wasn’t that easy?

Happy washing!