| Soap and Saving Money |
I've been meaning to blog this money saving tip for quite some time. I'm quite pleased with myself and feel like I've "beat the system" with this idea.
I have a foaming soap dispenser that we bought from Tupperware - it cost a lot and now they've stopped making them. Anyways, I've been happy with how it works - you put in about an inch of soap, and 4 inches of water so you get way more mileage out of your soap. Saves money.
When I was visiting some friends in the states a couple years ago they had special kids foaming soap. I realized that if I bought some soap like that I could reuse the dispenser, filling it myself.
So that's it. If you want to save money on soap go out and buy yourself a foaming soap dispenser - probably costs $4 and comes filled with soap. When the original soap is gone just add maybe a half inch of soap and add water till about an inch and a half from the top, shake it up and use. The soap you add can me liquid hand soap or dish soap.
In other news - the kids and I went for a winter walk today. We haven't been on a walk in weeks - the weather has been yucky and we hadn't got our new stroller up and running. We were given a Chariot stroller/bike trailer as a hand me down from some friends. What a gift. Today was the first time I've used it - wow. It is so easy to push and handles rough patches of snow/ice really well. It is way more weather proof than our other stroller so I feel better about the kids staying warm. Today it was warm (it's funny when 0 degrees celcius is warm!) so I didn't worry about them being cold. They fell asleep almost instantly, but I had an absolutley lovely time being outside. Ahhh.
And why didn't Lance come along on this lovely family outing you ask? Yesterday at basketball he hurt his ankle pretty bad. It's not broken, but the doctor thinks he may have torn some ligaments. What is a wife supposed to do when her husband is writhing on the ground moaning? Well run outside to get some snow to ice the ankle of course. Lance's dad had been watching basketball so he took Lance to the hospital and Auntie Jane came home with me to help with the babies.
Please pray for speedy healing for Lance. He's not is too much pain so that's good. He's been as helpful as a one legged man can be. He lays on the futon - with his foot up - entertains babies and does diaper changes. He's also getting to play a lot of NHL 07 on Xbox so he is enjoying that.
Well the kids are sleeping right now and I should take this opportunity to shower. I've read that new moms should make time to pamper themselves by getting manicures or nice haircuts - I was talking to another new mom friend of mine and she agreed that just getting to have a shower is a treat.
Hope you are well.
Aimee
ps. A big congratulations to Kortney and Jordon, many blessings on your new life together! |
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Hope you got to your shower Aimee. Funny thing... just today I told Matt it was a great day because I had a shower AND a walk outside! Showers and grocery shopping - I feel like both are privileges now.
Cristina
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the little things matter more when time alone seems stolen.
I like the soap idea. I have two hand washers that are guilty for going through soap too fast. I had never thought to reuse the container of the foam soap so I never bought it thinking $3 for handsoap was too much.
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Lance has an XBox? Oh this is good news.
Schulz
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Interesting about the foam soap, I would be afraid of messing up the recipe though, and glad you were able to get outside and that your friends were generous enough to give you the stroller gift. I would love to see a picture of it too...
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you can use dish soap just as easily. You can rub it right into your hands and don't have to wash it off. Works like hand sanitizer. Believe it or not I learned that from Pampered Chef. They sell the dispensers without soap for a bit cheaper.
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I also re-use the foam dispensers we got from Bath and Body works. I thought it maybe was little to cheap, so I'm glad to see others agree it is a good method! Last time we were in Bellingham we got soap on sale to fill the dispensers with so the scent will match the label and no one will ever know!! (unless they read this)
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Thanks for the thought on our special day!!!! Hope you're doing well!!!
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posted by Aimee at 
Hope you got to your shower Aimee. Funny thing... just today I told Matt it was a great day because I had a shower AND a walk outside! Showers and grocery shopping - I feel like both are privileges now.
Cristina