Start of a new day

I've started and deleted two blogs, just could not get into them. So here is the third, and probably final, try at blogging.

Two rather disparate items got me thinking of what I would want to say in a blog. The first was a counted cross-stitch verse a former co-worker of mine was working on more years ago than I care to admit. It said: Use it up, wear it out, make it do or do without. I always remembered it because it was so practical and economonical, both of which I try to be (okay, maybe for the latter what I really am is cheap).

The second was a saying: He/she doesn't have the sense God gave a chicken. I don't know where I first heard that, but it's one of my favorite insults to give a (stupid) person.

So I decided if I were to have a blog, I'd like to pass on economical (read cheap) and practical advice. It won't always be original but it will be something I've tried and know works.

Here is my first tip. I don't remember where I read it, probably in several places, but it was a while ago and probably in a woman's magazine. I only tried it recently. Instead of using fabric softner in the rinse cycle of a wash, use white vinegar in its place. I fill up the cap from a fabric softener bottle and pour it in the fabric softner dispenser, adding water to the fill line. I've been doing this for a month and have noticed no difference in my clothes in that they are not stiff, nor do they smell like vinegar. Also I noticed during the first month of washing clothes using the vinegar in the rinse, a lot more suds than usual came out of them in the rinse cycle. I figure that can only be for the good.

I haven't done this in the winter months yet, so I don't know if it will help with the static one can get when it's cold out, but so far vinegar works just as well as softeners, is more economical and ecological as well.