June 8th, 2007 in Lifestyle

How To Make Your Own Laundry Detergent

This one is self-explanatory: if you’re tired of buying laundry detergent and want to save a whole lot of money every month, try making your own!

I’ve been experimenting with making lots of cleaning supplies at home, but this one is by far the craziest - and the most successful. Basically, I made a giant bucket of slime that works incredibly well as laundry detergent at a cost of about three cents a load. For comparison’s sake, a jumbo container of Tide at Amazon.com costs $28.99 for 96 loads, or a cost of $0.30 a load. Thus, with each load of this stuff, I’m saving more than a quarter. Even better - I got to make a giant bucket of slime in the kitchen and my wife approved of it.

How To Make Your Own Laundry Detergent - And Save Big Money - [TheSimpleDollar]

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Gemma says on June 8th, 2007 at 8:33 am

Um, “bitches”…? That is a typo, right?
Trent says on June 8th, 2007 at 8:42 am

Yep, I think it’s supposed to be “batches.”
Leon says on June 8th, 2007 at 8:54 am

Fixed. Thanks.
Sam says on June 8th, 2007 at 9:14 am

Yeah… it’s not fixed: “it comes in an Arm & Hammer box and will contain enough for six bitches of this stuff.”

Also, after I get all ths stuff together to make my laundry soap what then? There are no directions provided for what I do after I get all the ingredients together.
Leon says on June 8th, 2007 at 10:20 am

Fixed, thanks. I fixed one but didn’t fix the other.

There is a link at the end to the full instruction.
Leon says on June 8th, 2007 at 10:23 am

I’ve just changed it to a better quote from the article to avoid the confusion.
Sam says on June 8th, 2007 at 11:00 am

Ah… thanks. You’ve bleneded the link and the adwords ads too well.
v says on June 8th, 2007 at 11:45 am

I must say this is the funniest post you have ever done. It is still showing in Google Reader as bitches.
Craig Childs says on June 11th, 2007 at 10:04 am

Did you ever install a Greasemonkey script like Uncensor The Internet to see how it works and then forget to remove it? After which, quote an article with the altered, and wrongly corrected, text to reference on a site like Lifehack?

I did. I apologize and hope you guys enjoyed the error.