What Ever Wednesday

Hey Stephanie here,

I was talking to Mindy the other day and she was talking about needing to clean her Microwave.  I said you know the easy way to do that right.  She said No and since Mindy knows a lot about cooking and cleaning.  I thought if she didn't know this little trick maybe a lot of people didn't.

So today for whatever Wednesday I am going to share with you a easy way to clean your microwave.

Place about 1/2 cup of water in a bowl add a couple cap fulls of lemon juice( you can use vinegar instead of lemon juice).  Then place the bowl in the microwave and run it for about 3 minutes then take the bowl out and use a damp rag to wipe down the inside of your microwave.  The steam from the water and juice will have loosened any food that was stuck to the inside of the microwave.


Now If you have teenagers who let stuff get splattered in there and not clean it or tell you LOL.  You may have to repeat the process a couple of times.


See I told you it was easy
Hope you have a great Wednesday

Hey Stephanie here with our thrifty Thursday Post

Cheap but good

Homemade laundry detergent

Here is what you need:

• 1 c borax
• 1 c washing soda
• 1 bar of soap (ivory or fels naptha)

 I found all these at Wal-mart 

Start out by grating your Fels-naptha soap just like cheese.   I use a hand grater.

Then just mix all the ingredients together.  I keep mine in a pretty jar above my washer.  Use 1 tablespoon per load.  I have found that A baby formula  scoop is the perfect size. 

I am glad to say this does work with my front load washer since the special detergent is still expensive.  And It really does a good job on all the daycare clothing accidents.

I was reading another blog the other day and they suggested after using a hand grater to put your soap bar in a food processor.  So I used my magic bullet after hand grating and I am very happy with the results it is much easier to mix together and scoop out.