Domestic Goddess
Awhile ago, Danae asked me if I would co-blog with her and a few others on her Domestic Servitude blog.
Can you imagine? Me, blogging about domestic service? You do realize that less than 6 years ago, I couldn’t boil water.
Hee. I feel so grown up now!
Anway, I just made my first post over there, all about laundry soap which is my shining glory of domestic goddess-ness. You should go check it out (cuz I’m all sorts of nervous about blogging about domestic stuffs!)
In fact, if you have any interest in domestic services, check out the entire blog. Danae does wicked wonderful things in the kitchen, and elsewhere. You won’t regret it, I promise!
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April 15, 2009 8:04 am
Ooooooh. That blog just went on my RSS-feed.
Here’s another idea. I’ve begun doing spreadsheets. I know, I know, booooring. It takes me like, 15 minutes every month to keep track of our budget. After reading the laundry-saving tips, though. I plucked out my trusty YouTube-videos of Excel-sheets: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8L1OVkw2ZQ8&feature=PlayList&p=8BFA11D8467F8BAA&index=40
(A few months back, I made one for our budgets and every month I’ll open the old one, rename it and move stuff around – saves me the time to make another, and the anxiety of not knowing where the money goes/went.)
And I made one for our monthly groceryneeds. Toiletpaper, base food, shampoo, and so on, all went in there. I estimated how much of each product we need (like “Beans, 5oz can” went under Items, and 3 under Amount, and then the price under Cost). Now there’s a nice monthly list for me to do that Huge Shopping Trip with, and an estimated price, so that I don’t need to stand in line making panic-phonecalls for M to transfer me more money.
Hopefully, having these basic foods at home will prevent me from buying anything but fresh foods at the grocery store. At least, it’ll prevent M from being stuck in the bathroom without us having toiletpaper at home. *blush*
I’m off to make laundry detergent now though. Lucky, I just ran out of my regular powder and the soapnuts have been running low too. Lets hope this stuff gets rid of cathair!
Oh, and really – the girls can’t use a towel twice? We use ours (M has two, I have one) for a week, sometimes two! So… I’m in shock here. Mum would probably have strangled me as a teen if I tried to convince her that a towel needed changing more often than once a week.
Then again. I never bring my towel out of the bathroom. I dry off, and hang it up. M brings his to the couch, and as such, they’re always full of cathair. Hee. Not my fault though.
I suppose, if we had our own laundry machine, I’d do laundry more often than once a week. But as it is, I only do four loads anyway: blacks (read: clothing), whites (read: kitchentowels and rags), sheets and towels. That’s on two adults (and two ragdoll cats…).
Apparently, they were told in some class at school that used towels harbor germs and bacteria from skin cells and dirt and nothing I can say can convince them otherwise.
Master and I reuse ours, at least a couple of times, before tossing them in the wash. But with the kids, it’s a no go.
I have to admit to being the same way as a teen, too. I thought it was disgusting right up until I had to wash my own clothes..lol
It’s unhygenic – if you leave your very wet towel on the floor or somewhere else in a heap. But… otherwise, no. Let them google the subject.
Washing your own clothes does that, doesn’t it? I mean, I’m sitting here in spotty sweatpants and a t-shirt M decided is “too hairy”. I just can’t be arsed, you know?
If it helps I wash my own clothes since I moved out and I still use two towels when I shower and usually new ones everytime. I’m bad for the environment and my wallet, but the idea used towels really squicks me >.<
Jeans on the other hand I can wear at least twice between washes *shrug*
I think you don’t want to know how long I go between washing my jeans.
Which, by the way, are the only pants I own. After eight months now, I’ve worn them down to have large tears going from the crotch back beneath my butt. I need new pants desperately, but we can’t afford them until in 5 weeks or so. >.<
Jeans aren’t even supposed to be washed more than once a year, once every six months. You’re supposed to air them, or put them in the freezer instead.
Huh!
That’s one I’ve never heard, about only washing jeans once a year, the airing them, or the freezer!
Might I inquire as to why?
~pet
yay! I was so happy to see your post there when I turned on my computer for the day!
You know I have read your blog almost from day one so I have seen the progression from not knowing how to boil water to now being a domestic goddess. So yes I can imagine you writing about domestic service
And just that alone says so much – that you have learned and taught yourself so much! You should be really proud of yourself for all the good work you have done.
As I have said in emails to you – Thank you Thank you for joining in on this project! I know you will be able to add a lot to the blog!