I’ve been doing our laundry with soap nuts.
They grow on trees. They’re dried shells of a fruit.
They look funny and smell funny, but they work pretty well. The laundry comes out smelling clean and feeling soft. Even my line-dried bath towels are less crunchy. They’re almost soft. And they smell like clean, line-dried, sunshine baked [...]
I’m amazed.
I read about using vinegar and baking soda for cleaning on some of the housekeeping blogs, and I wrote it off as being like coupon clipping — something that probably wouldn’t work all that well (for me, at least) and that would be a hassle and would end with weariness, frustration, disappointment, and [...]
Posted in Housework on Feb 16th, 2008
When I’m cooking and cleaning up around the house I like to listen to books on tape from the library.
Posted in Housework on Feb 12th, 2008
I went outside as it was getting dark to unpin the laundry from the clothesline. While I was folding it and setting it in the basket, I looked up and saw the moon through the branches of the big tree in our back yard.
Posted in Housework on Jan 7th, 2008
Folding laundry and watching The French Chef
Posted in Housework on Dec 29th, 2007
One of our friends spent about five minutes at a holiday party trying to convince me that I should start drying my clothes on a clothes line. We have a back yard and plenty of space, and it would save energy and be good for the planet, and just think about how good all that [...]
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